When she arrived in California in 1989, Ayako Matsumoto enjoyed not only learning English but also new visual languages that allowed her to deliver messages without borders. Her experience in multicultural immersion, diverse academic background and international career have helped her to perfect her visual languages as a new standard on communication for a good cause.

She recalls that, early on, the internet only delivered data in text, but some advanced graphic software rapidly evolved in Silicon Valley. Through her career as a graphic artist, Ayako Matsumoto picked up the new, evolving graphic tools, and learned that graphic messages delivered in multimedia communicated in the most direct and prompt way in global business and in education. Her web site supported the earthquake victims in Tohoku, Japan to achieve their financial goals in four years after the earthquake. Her presentations brought otherwise non-existent art education experience to elementary school classrooms in Castro Valley, California. Her effort was recognized in a newspaper article in Japan’s nationally distributed Asahi Newspaper.

Ever since she learned the power of her visual languages, she has focused on refining them for marketing and instruction purposes. Her design editing skills for print prepress followed legal specifications for pharmaceuticals and food products where mistakes can cost lives. Her online presentations carried information to share, and brought investors’ attention to innovations in tradeshows in Europe. Her presentations also delivered cultural information and linguistic instruction to online remote learning environments during COVID for high schoolers.

Her mission started in academic endeavors that built a stable basis for the contributions she has made. She has a MA in Multimedia and BAs in Studio Art and Art History from Cal State East Bay. She earned her BA in Japanese Literature from Shirayuri Women’s College in Tokyo, Japan. In Japan, she is also a certified Japanese subject teacher for middle and high school, and a certified public and school librarian.

Her professional pursuits began with prepress graphic editing and design for print production. She diversified her career to presentation and web design for marketing and instruction purposes. In addition, her instructional graphics have grown as more effective visual languages because of her experience in in-person instruction for computers, chess, art and language.

Today, she seeks a place where her visual languages can be in use for a good cause. She is happily married with her husband of 28 years, and they have two wild teenaged sons. Her family enjoys annual visits to Japan.