Graphic designer and photographer Jerry Takigawa has committed his career to creating insightful strategies that spark visual images, engage the heart, and challenge the mind. Based on the Monterey Peninsula, work from Takigawa Design has garnered numerous accolades. Jerry received his BFA from San Francisco State University. While living in the San Francisco Bay area, he utilized his art and design skills to help develop a pilot VISTA program in West Berkeley and Oakland. In 1979, he opened his own studio in Monterey, California.

Throughout his career, Jerry has created unique brands, identities, and packaging systems for a variety of companies, including: Earthbound Farm, Bernardus Lodge and Winery, Symantec, KAO, Monterey Jazz Festival, The Athenian School, AIA Monterey Bay, Michael Nesmith, Silvestri Vineyards, Santa Lucia Preserve, Language Line Services, and Center for Photographic Art.

He was President of People in Communication Arts (PiCA), a trustee for the Monterey Museum of Art, and President of the Board for Center for Photographic Art.

His award-winning work has been recognized in numerous design competitions including Communication Arts, AIGA, Graphis, Summit International Creative Awards, Northern California Addy Awards, International Telly Awards, and the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, SFMOMA, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Hiroshima Museum of Art.