Biographical Note
James Noboru Miho was born in 1929 in Gridley, California, to parents who immigrated to the United States from Japan. Between 1942 and 1945 he was confined at Tule Lake Relocation Center, California. Miho served in the United States Army during the Korean War between 1950 and 1952. He earned a B.B.A. in advertising from Woodbury College (Los Angeles, California) and a B.A. from ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena, California) and began his career as a graphic designer around 1959, working with the firms N. W. Ayer & Son; Needham, Harper, and Steers Advertising; and James Miho Incorporated. Later in his career he became an educator, serving as chair of the graphic design department at ArtCenter from around 1988 to 1995 and chair of multimedia design at Innovative Design Labs of Samsung (Samsŏng Chŏnja) in Seoul, South Korea, from around 1995 to 1998. He married twice, first to Tomoko Kawakami and later to Judith Ann Skimin. Miho received the American Institute of Graphic Arts medal in 2004. He died in 2022 in Lafayette, Colorado.