Hiromi Inayoshi is a leading authority in designing Corporate Marks and logos, and is one of the world-class CI (Corporate Identity) and graphic designers. Especially positioning the Corporate Mark as a core of his works, he has established an original style in designing CI. He has designed highly artistic CIs for a number of corpora- tions and organizations. Since the 1990s, Hiromi Inayoshi has proclaimed that “the Mark is a form of Art” and “the Mark is a portrayal of one’s inner essence. “He has es- tablished the Personal Mark as a new genre in the field of graphic design and art. To date, he has designed and created Per- sonal Marks for a number of heads of state, global VIPs, and significant cultural fig- ures such as His Majesty the King of Thai- land, His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muham- mad Yunus. In recent years, he has been ac- tively engaged in various artistic activi- ties in the categories of fine art and contem- porary art, elevating Personal Mark de- sign into various art forms including serig- raphy, sculpture, weaving, jewelry, and ornaments, using traditional Japanese lac- quer techniques.
Aside from his vigorous creative activities as a CI designer and an artist, Hiromi Inayoshi founded the CI Renaissance Com- mittee in 1996. While being the first in Japan to revive social design through CI, transcending from business CI to cultural CI, Hiromi Inayoshi has contributed to social- ly conscious activities around the globe with his mission to resolve social issues and to achieve permanent peace through the power of design and art. In 1997, he expand- ed his field of design from CI design for corporations and organizations to NI (Nation- al Identity) design projects. Under the com- mand of His Excellency Humayun Rasheed Choudhury, a speaker of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, he launched the Bangladesh National Identity Project, aiming to transform the country’s national image through the power of design and art. In 2000, he designed city emblems for Dhaka and Sylhet.

In 2001, as part of the Dhaka capital planning project led by Louis I. Kahn, a lead- ing architect of the twentieth century, he designed the city’s central mosque. Mean- while, in the area of NGOs, he launched a decontamination project with the Bangla- desh government in order to resolve the country’s serious arsenic pollution problems, and published ”Arsenic,” which is a white paper describing the polluted environment and the progress in its decontamination in collaboration with the UN. In 2002, the ex- hibition entitled “A Symbol of Philan- thropy: Hiromi Inayoshi” was held at the UN- ESCAP, sponsored by the United Nations. Afterward, in collaboration with the United Nations, he produced a documentary film and designed the visual identity and its brand mark for “Successful Aging,” a pro- ject to provide support in an effort to resolve aging issues. In 2005, he had a meeting with Kofi Annan, a former secretary-general of the United Nations, at the United Na- tions headquarters.
As a part of his world peace promotion ef- forts, in 1996, he launched The Biggest Painting in the World, a project which con- nects paintings by children across the world. Regardless of nationality, race, or re- ligion, they are sewn together into one big painting, with an intention to realize glob- al peace, as in “平(flat)和(harmony)” in Japanese kanji, literally meaning “connect- ing harmoniously on the same plane.” In 2006, upon the completion of The Biggest Painting in the World in the Kingdom of Thailand, he was granted an audience with their Majesties, the Emperor and Em- press of Japan, who remarked, “As Japanese, we are so proud of your contribution to world peace through your noble activities of connecting children’s paintings from around the world.”In 2009, on the occasion of President Obama’s infamous Prague speech on the nuclear-free world, Inayoshi’s A Picture Book without Pictures – If This Planet Were Covered with Pictures was pub- lished by Froebel-Kan Co., Ltd. (It de- scribes a planet ruined by nuclear wars; read- ers experience the recovery and revital- ization process by drawing on empty pages.)

In 2010, the exhibition of A Picture Book without Pictures was held at the 11th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. To cultivate peace conscious- ness and nourish the creativity of the next generation of youths, he held CI de- sign and social design contests in Ja- pan, Korea, and Taiwan, followed by the “Conqueror CI Design and Social De- sign Contest 2010 Bangladesh and Hiromi Inayoshi Exhibition.” In 2011 at the UN, Hiromi Inayoshi declared “Art Millennium” and released a poster of peace enti- tled “The World without Nuclear Weapons” (illustrated by Jean-Michel Folon).
In 2012, the reading and music CD A Picture Book without Pictures – If This Planet Were Covered with Pictures, with reading by actor Saburo Tokito and music by pianist Makoto Ozone, was published. In 2013, Hiromi Inayoshi de- signed the Mark for the Yunus Social Business, the new and revolutionary social capitalism advocated by the Grameen Bank founder Prof. Muhammad Yunus. The second in the series of A Picture Book without Pictures, entitled I Want to Be- come an Oogo Madara (The Paper Kite Butterfly), was published. This reading and music CD (reading by Misuzu Kanno and music by Makoto Ozone) was published by Froebel-Kan Co., Ltd.
In 2014, Hiromi Inayoshi designed the CI and a Corporate Mark for the Republic of Poland Fashion Design Center (CPM), and was appointed to a professorship at the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. In 2015 and 2017, he held the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts Lodz, Poland CI Design and Social Design Contests with the theme of “The World without War and Nuclear Weapons,”and “Art of the Asian Union,”respectively. In 2018, a Russian language version of A Picture Book without Pictures – If This Planet Were Covered with Pictures was published in the Republic of Belarus. In 2019, he produced the Joe O’Donnell photo exhibition “The Fruit of War,” commemorating the Pope’s visit to Japan.

Major Awards
Hiromi Inayoshi was the first Japanese recipient of double gold medals awarded by New York ADC in the advertising poster section. He has received many Distinctive Merit and Merit Awards for outstanding performance from New York ADC, as well as the Tokyo ADC Prize, the Grand Prix for Corporate Identity Design by the Japan Ty- pography and Association, the Excellence Award for Architectural Showroom Design at the Display and Commercial Space Design Japan, and the Excellence Award for International CI Design. He has been hon- ored with notable awards by Graphis Corpo- rate Identity, Warsaw Poster Biennale, Brno International Graphic Design Biennale, Lahti Poster Biennale, and numerous others, both nationally and internationally.