Born in 1958, he is a designer, President of the Nippon Design Center, and a professor at Musashino Art University. Known for groundbreaking exhibitions that challenge conventional values, he has curated projects such as RE-DESIGN – The Daily Products of the 21st Century, JAPAN CAR – Designs for a Crowded World, and HOUSE VISION, which have had a global impact. He applied design deeply rooted in Japanese culture for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Nagano Olympics and the Aichi Expo. Since 2002, he has served as the art director for MUJI and has worked across diverse fields, designing for Matsuya Ginza, Mori Building, Tsutaya Books, Ginza Six, Mikimoto, Yamato Transport, and the visual identity (VI) for Xiaomi in China. In 2008–2009, he held large-scale solo exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai. At the 2016 Milan Furniture Fair, he collaborated with Italian architect Andrea Branzi on the exhibition New Primitive Era – 100 Verbs, presenting human history as a co-evolution of tools and desires. He is also the general producer of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ JAPAN HOUSE, focusing on leveraging Japanese culture as a resource for the future. In 2019, he launched the website Low Flying – High Resolution Tour, introducing Japan from a unique perspective and exploring innovative approaches to tourism. He is the author of several books, including Designing Design, 100 Whites, Design of the Future, and The Secret of Macaroni Holes.
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Hara Kenya
原硏哉
다른 사람들
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CEO of studio-L, Social entrepreneur, Community Designer, Professor and Director of the department of Spatial Design in the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Vice President in RIPS, NPO. Born in Aichi, in 1973. After the university, he worked in SEN, inc., where he developed his skills and knowledge in landscape design advised by Mr. Shosuke Miyake, a founder of this firm. As well, he learnt social organization and relationship management from Dr. Fusayo Asano there. Then he founded studio-L …
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Lim Taehee
After completing a research program in Architecture at Kyoto University, he returned to South Korea and gained six years of practical experience in the field. He later went back to Japan and earned a Ph.D. in Architecture from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Currently, he runs Im Taehee Design Studio, continuing to work on various projects. -
Hori Michihiro
Hori Michihiro is a lacquer craftsman, manga artist and author from Toyama. He graduated from Takaoka National College (now University of Toyama, School of Art and Design) with a major in lacquerware and Ishikawa Prefectural Wajima-nuri Lacquerware Training Institute. After working for a cultural property restoration company and as a craftsman in a lacquer workshop, he made his debut as a manga artist in 2003 and has been active in the fields of lacquer and manga ever since. He is the author of … -
Yoon Hee-su
She graduated from Hongik University and Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin, and received her PhD in Fine Arts from Hongik University Graduate School. She is a professor of art education at Gongju University College of Education, and has been experimenting with design and initiative. She is constantly reading the time and space of discarded objects. She has held ten solo exhibitions and participated in more than 40 group exhibitions. He is the author of Basic Design , a co-authored book, and a … -
Hans Rudolf Bosshard
Born in 1929, he completed an apprenticeship in typesetting and later worked as an instructor. He taught photography and graphic design at various colleges and at the Zurich School of Design, while also serving as a teacher at the Zurich School of Industrial Design, where he developed lifelong learning programs in typographic design. His work spans book design for the cultural sector, exhibition catalogs, posters, and exhibition and installation design. A prolific writer, he has authored … -
Lu Jingren
Prof. Lu Jingren is a book designer and illustrator. During the 1990s, he studied under Prof. Kohei Sugiura (杉浦康平) in Japan. In 1998 he established the Jingren Art Design Studio. He was senior art editor of the China Youth Publishing House. He is now a professor of the Academy of Arts and Design of Tsinghua University and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Prof. Lu has received many book design awards at home and overseas, including the World’s Most Beautiful Book award … -
Lee Kyu-chul
Lee Kyu-chul (1948-1994, Incheon) graduated from Hongik University in 1974, majoring in sculpture. In 1975, he left for Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an administrator and videographer for the Vinnell Company in the United States. In 1983, he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, but returned home after three semesters. He had his first solo exhibition, Space and Visual Perception (Kwanhoon Museum of Art, 1988), which he spent time researching alone, and … -
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander (1936–2022) was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, and sociology. Alexander designed and personally built over 100 buildings, both as an architect and a general contractor. Alexander is best known for his 1977 book A Pattern … -
Nam Jung-min
He graduated from Yonsei University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and received his master’s degree in architectural design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). He has interned and practiced at various offices including Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA), Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and Safdie Architects. He is currently a professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, where he founded the OA-Lab architectural … -
Han Myoung-sik
Graduated with a degree in Interior Design from the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués in Lyon, France, and worked as an interior designer at LG Chem. Currently, teaches and explores architectural spaces with students in the Department of Interior Architecture at Daegu Haany University. -
Kim Kwang-hyun
He graduated from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, studied at the Graduate School of Architecture, and received his PhD from the University of Tokyo Graduate School. For 42 years, he taught and researched architectural design and architectural theory based on the commonness of architecture at the University of Seoul and the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University. He has served as a member of the Presidential Committee on National Architectural … -
Kim Sun-hee
She graduated from Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design and received his MFA from Pratt Institute Graduate School of Industrial Design. Since 1995, she has been a keynote professor at Samsung Art and Design Institute (SADI), and since 1999, she has been a research professor at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute’s Department of Industrial Design in New York City. Currently, she teaches three-dimensional sculpture at Parsons School of …