Brush × Strengths: Creativity & Ideation
For Those Strong in Creativity & Ideation
This collection features jobs that may suit those who are relatively comfortable generating new ideas and concepts.
Creativity holds value not only in artistic fields but in all kinds of work. Both small ideas that improve existing methods and entirely new concepts are expressions of creativity. Additionally, some deepen their thinking alone, while others develop ideas through dialogue with others.
The jobs introduced here tend to offer more opportunities to utilize new ideas. Explore how your creativity can flourish.
40 jobs found.
Painter (Ceramic manufacturing)
Artisan who paints designs, colors, and patterns on the bisque-fired body of ceramics.
Calligrapher
A specialist profession that handwrites beautifully decorative letters using traditional writing instruments or pens, applying them to invitations, logos, signs, art works, etc.
Signboard writer
Artisan who hand-draws and paints letters and designs on signboards for stores and facilities.
Calligraphy (kigō) Master
An artistic profession that uses a brush to write characters on plaques, hanging scrolls, signboards, celebratory envelopes, etc., expressing the client's intentions and aesthetic elements.
Advertising Art Worker
Advertising Art Workers are artisans who create and decorate letters and designs used in commercial advertising items such as signboards and displays using techniques like hand-drawing, airbrush, spray painting, and cutting sheets.
Kokeshi painter
Artisan who paints traditional patterns and faces on the wooden body of kokeshi dolls using brushes and pigments.
Sashi Yuzen Worker
A Sashi Yuzen worker is an artisan who uses the Sashi Yuzen technique, one of the Yuzen dyeing methods, to draw patterns on silk fabrics such as kimonos and obis with resist paste and apply colors using brushes.
Yuzen Sketch Artist (Hand-Drawn Yuzen)
A traditional craft technician who traces patterns used in the Yuzen dyeing process onto silk fabric with ink or charcoal as a preliminary sketch, supporting the subsequent dyeing operations.
Lacquerware Artisan
Traditional skilled worker who applies lacquer to wooden products, polishes and decorates them to produce lacquerware.
Calligrapher
A specialist who uses brush and ink to artistically express characters and scripts, engaging in work creation, commissioned calligraphy, and performances.