Author Archives

Graphic designer, exhibition designer, writer, graphic design history teacher at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, president of the Type Directors Club.

• Author Doug Clouse to Speak in Brooklyn

  By Doug Clouse on Jan 25, 2018, 18:08 • ( 0 )

  

  Doug Clouse will speak about the career of graphic and exhibition designer Ray Komai at the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School on February 1. As part of the school’s Literary Week, the night gathers a variety of writers from the school’s… Read More ›

• Celebrating the Life of Kay Komai

  By Doug Clouse on Aug 31, 2017, 15:21 • ( 0 )

  

  For more background information on Ray Komai: Design for America (now available at Amazon), listen to this fascinating 2008 interview with his sister-in-law, Kay Komai. In it she talks about growing up in California through the war years, and she describes… Read More ›

• Announcing a New Book about Ray Komai, on the 75th Anniversary of Order 9066

  By Doug Clouse on Feb 19, 2017, 20:35 • ( 1 )

  

  Today is the 75th anniversary of the signing by President Franklin Roosevelt of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the wartime relocation of people of Japanese descent away from the American west coast and into inland internment camps. Eventually, over 117,000… Read More ›