OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Tennoji-ku, Osaka City; President: Matsuguchi Tadashi), a member of the OSP Group, will be exhibiting a panel at the Universal Design Fair to be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall from Friday, August 18th to Sunday, August 20th, 2023.
The "Universal Design Fair" is a fair that aims to convey what MUD (Media Universal Design) is in an easy-to-understand way through colors, letters, and shapes. The program is divided into a seminar, an exhibition corner, and an experience corner. Osaka Sealing Printing will exhibit panels in the exhibition corner, including "Shelter Construction Sticker Set," "Public Telephones You Should Know," and "Learning Set for How to Speak to the Visually Impaired."

■Three programs

①Exhibition corner: See and touch MUD
The exhibition will introduce products, works and initiatives divided into six sections: learning about MUDs, learning about MUDs, life-saving MUDs, MUDs in daily life, UD-related organizations, and workshops. Osaka Sealing Printing will exhibit panels on "Life-saving MUDs" and "Learning MUDs."

"Shelter construction sticker set"
A set that allows you to set up a shelter just by sticking stickers on it

"Public telephones you should know about"
Introducing how to use public telephones and their numbers so you won't be in trouble in emergencies such as disasters and power outages

"How to talk to visually impaired people: learning set"
A learning set for how to talk to visually impaired people, intended for use in moral education classes, comprehensive studies, corporate and human rights training.

②Seminar: Deepening MUD
Lectures and panel discussions by experts

③ Experience Corner
With the theme of "communicating and being understood," you can experience ways of communicating that are easy for everyone to understand, such as playing universal design karuta and creating new braille business cards.

■ Pursuing a more understandable design

The OSP Group is involved in a wide range of activities, from the manufacture of printing paper for stickers and labels, to design production, printing, the development and manufacture of printing peripherals, and the design and research and development of labeling systems. For planning and design production, approximately 100 designers propose designs that meet the needs of customers. We are pursuing universal design more deeply, as we believe that the social environment demands not only design that increases product value, but also "ease of understanding." These efforts have been recognized, and we have won the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award, Excellence Award, and Honorable Mention Award for 15 consecutive years at this fair, where we have exhibited since the first time.

■OSP Group's Sustainability

The OSP Group is conducting "sustainable management" that aims to realize a sustainable society by responding to various changes in the social environment and balancing business activities with the resolution of social issues. Aiming for harmony between the economy, society, and the environment through business activities, we are working on the SDGs by setting four sustainability policies (environment, customers, contribution to society and the community, and human resource development and activity). Pursuing more "easy-to-understand" designs meets the needs of society and also leads to the improvement of designers' capabilities, so we are exhibiting at this fair as part of the SDGs.

■ Purpose of the event

What is MUD (Media Universal Design)?
Universal design is a concept for designing products, environments, and services that are easy for everyone to use. Its aim is to make them accessible to a wide range of people, including the elderly, people with disabilities, foreigners, and children. MUD (Media Universal Design) applies this concept to media in the field of information transmission, and aims to make information such as colors, letters, and shapes easy to understand for as many people as possible.

Exhibition Overview

• Name: Universal Design Fair

• Date and time: Friday, August 18th to Sunday, August 20th, 2023

• Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall

• Address: Tokyo Port City Takeshiba, 1-7-1 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo

• Participation: Free

• Organizers: All Japan Printing Industry Association, Media Universal Design Association, a non-profit organization certified by the Cabinet Office

• Cooperation: Tokyo Printing Industry Association

• Sponsored by: Cabinet Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

• Sponsors: Morisawa Inc., OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD., Ltd., Shinko Publishing Kairinkan Co., Ltd., Ricoh Japan Co., Ltd., Universal Communication Design Association, NPO Color Universal Design Organization, International Association for Universal Design, Public Interest Foundation for the Promotion of Shared Goods, and others.

• URL: https://www.media-ud.org/designfair/

■ OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD. Company Profile

• Company name: OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD.

• Address: 1-8 Obasecho-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

• Representative: Matsuguchi Tadashi

• Founded: 1927

• Business description: Manufacturing and sales of stickers, labels, film products, Carton Package, and sales of labeling systems

• URL: https://www.osp.co.jp/

■OSP Holdings Company Profile

• Company name: OSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

• Address: 6-8 Ajihara Honmachi Tennoji-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

• Representative: Matsuguchi Tadashi

• Founded: 1969

• Business description: Business planning and management of the corporate group and related operations

• URL: https://www.osp-group.jp

Founded in 1927, the OSP Group is a comprehensive packaging company with a total of 15 companies (9 domestic and 6 overseas), and has 18 production bases nationwide to fulfill its mission of social infrastructure, mainly food distribution. Since its founding, the company has expanded its business scope in response to changes in the times, such as customer needs and the social environment. Currently, the company provides products and services that enrich society and the lives of customers through the planning, design, and manufacturing of stickers and labels, Carton Package, and promotional materials. In order to achieve high quality and stable supply, the group also operates in a wide range of areas, from material procurement, development and manufacturing of sticker and label printing base paper and printing peripherals, to designing and research and development of labeling systems.