Kai Watanabe is a LA based designer working in the US and Japan. He designs for brands through graphic design, 2D/3D motion graphics, web design, and front end development. Please contact kaiwatanabe@g.ucla.edu to see his professional work. Professional | Personal
Ambient Spaces “Ambient Spaces” is a dynamic website created for UCLA’s “Ghestalt” online exhibition. It offers users an interactive map with clickable markers that lead…
EXID I was commissioned to create a music video for the K-POP band EXID’s song “ME&YOU,” which served as the opening for their summer 2019…
URBAN URBAN is an exploration of the relationship between sounds and form. Rather than the traditional process of creating a movie and adding sound effects,…
Acquaintances Through Iteration “Acquaintances Through Iteration” is a interactive art piece exhibited at “H=CN” in Tokyo. Guests who approach the piece will have their motion…
The Fated Game of Life A generative art project exploring Cellular Automata, a computer program simulating the life of cellular organisms. I adapted the original…
DREAM RECALL “DREAM RECALL” replicates the voyage of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a pioneering instrument that revolutionized outer space research with its discovery of hundreds…
Ambient Spaces
“Ambient Spaces” was is an audio visual website documenting the spaces people hold sentimental value to, and is used to re-immerse oneself in a nostalgic…
Digital Gem
Digital Gem is a magazine concept designed to illustrate new and upcoming technologies that are relevant to the fields of art and technology. The written…
Ajitane – Packaging Design
Ajitane is a candy created to demonstrate the beauty fluidity can have in package design. The candy is meant to be a gelatin based snack,…
Acquaintances Through Iteration
“Acquaintances Through Iteration” is an interactive window that peers into the perspectives of individuals during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The window asks participants to approach…
ME&YOU – EXID
https://vimeo.com/384600534 ME&YOU is a motion graphics video created for the KPOP group EXID. The music video was played throughout their Summer of 2019 Japan Tour,…
Fluorescent Voyage
Fluorescent Voyage is a game made in processing, which focuses on a light source that must illuminate a planet that has lost all light.…
The Fated Game of Life
The mathematics within nature have always fascinated me because of their simplicity and beauty. The beautiful patterns of seashells formed from the fibonacci sequence or…
URBAN
Sound is one of the strongest aspects in visual composition, and can be the key to creating an emotional and unique composition. Much of the…
Fantastical World
Fantastical World Photoshop Process Art I’ve always been interested in the process of creating art, and how that art could be turned into artwork as…
Nested Iterations
Nested Iterations, P5JS This series explores the relationship between machine and organic, as well as the computer and human. The works created here are generated…
DREAM RECALL
DREAM RECALL simulates the journey of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a telescope that made major breakthroughs in outer space research by discovering several hundred exoplanets…
Creator’s Turmoil
Creator’s Turmoil is an abstract short animation which explores the relationship between artist and commercialism. The ideas of an artist are innately personal and unique,…
Book Covers
A book of forty book covers inspired by the short story “The Feeling of Power” by Isaac Asimov. The story takes place in the…
KAI WATANABE 