Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1940. Graduated from Kanagawa Technical High School. He worked for Light Publicity, Inc., and then opened the Shigeo Katsuoka Design Studio in 1977. His clients for corporate identity design projects are: Tomato Bank, Sapporo Breweries, Meiji Life Insurance Company, Daikyo, Dai-ichi Securities, Kyudenko, Maruzen Petrochemical, Fukushima Prefecture, TOLI, Meitetsu Department Store, the Nakazawa Corporation and Coca-Cola ("I feel Coke"). Among his clients for advertising design are: Ocean Exposition in Okinawa (3 serial official posters), TOTO and YAMAHA. He is a member of Tokyo Art Directors Club (ADC) and the secretary of Tokyo Area, Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA). / EXHIBITIONS : Solo exhibition at The Ginza Okabe Gallery, 1970 • Solo exhibition at Ohio State University, U.S.A., 1973 • Solo exhibition titled "Departure" in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Sofia and Shanghai, 1996 to 1997 / AWARDS : Minister of International Trade and Industry's Prize, All Japan Catalogue • Poster Contest • Tokyo ADC Award (several times) • Asahi Advertising Award • Special Award, Mainichi Advertising Design Award • Special Selection, Japan Advertising Artists Club Members' Prize • CI Gold Prize, CS • Silver Prize, JAGDA Exhibition in New York • Bronze Award, New York Festival • Selection, International Poster Bennial, Warsaw