The Project

Recognize is a perspective on (web) marketing, identity and design written by a few of us on the ground in Tokyo…and Beijing.

We are a collaborative entity, by design.

Contributors:

Ken Worsley
Ken is a longtime Tokyo resident who initially came to Japan interested in cultural aquisition, education and the impact of the internet as a cultural growth engine. He is currently a Senior Partner and Consultant at Ireja Web Development, where he focuses on dynamic solutions for small businesses, visual identity, and the cultural transformation of branding. In his free time he enjoys listening to metal, watching the Red Sox and ’staring at walls.’

Laura Fitch
Born with a hankering to travel, Laura has done volunteer work in Guatemala and Zimbabwe, and traveled to various countries before landing in Tokyo six months after graduating with a degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2000 with a concentration in print media and a minor in mass communications for what was to become a six-year stint. During her stay in what is arguably the most fantastically intense city in the world, she contributed to a variety of publications, including the Japan Times, Japanzine and J-Select; was a contributing author to the 2003 edition of Living in Japan, published by the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and worked as the editorial assistant for J-Select. She currently lives in Beijing, where she works as a writing trainer and copy-editor for the China Daily website and is continuing her freelance writing career.

‘Fatso’ De Orio
While nicely fattening up, Fatso is not actually all that fat. He is a long-time resident of the Nakano area in Tokyo and teaches English at a university in Tokyo. (In the interest of disclosure, he is not a professor of any kind.) Having rather long vacations, he also writes freelance, tends bar pro-bono at his local, and is a co-founder of Trans-Pacific Radio (???????) and the creator of its news and political program ???? (”Seijigiri.”) While increasingly bored with rock music and arguing over atheism, he is endlessly interested in sounds and ideas.