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Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa was born in Nagoya City in 1937. As the President of Masayuki Kurokawa Architect & Associates, Inc., Mr. Kurokawa engages in both architecture and product design, including design for clocks and lighting fixtures. He serves as President of the Society of Research & Design and DESIGNTOPE. Mr. Kurokawa also serves as Professor at the Research Institute of Art, Kanazawa College of Art.
His major architectural works include the Paloma Head Office, Paloma Plaza, Yuni Tobu Golf Club, Shinminato Marina Clubhouse, the Tower of Wind and Light, Shinji-machi Health Center, and Monument Museum Kimachi Stone. His major product design works include the GOM Series, the FIENO diving apparatuses, a table called BETWEEN, and a lighting fixture known as Wind. His works are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Denver Art Museum. Mr. Kurokawa has also written many books, including ,lasayuki Kurokawa Product Design (Bookshop TOTO), ARCHGRAPH: Masayuki Kurokawa and Koichi Inakoshi (Bookshop TOTO), The Theory of Desymmetrical (Bookshop TOTO), and Future Archeology of Design jointly written with the Society of Research & Design (Bookshop TOTO). Mr. Kurokawa is a member of various organizations, including the Japan Industrial Designers' Association, Japan Design Committee, The Japan Institute of Architects, and the Japan Inter Design Forum. He has received numerous awards, including the Mainichi Design Award, Good Design Award Gold Prize, and Germany's iF Design Award.
URL(Masayuki Kurokawa Architect & Associates, Inc.) :
http://www.k-system.net/
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Mr. Shin Azumi ( born in 1965 ), and Mrs. Tomoko Azumi ( born 1966 ) both graduated from the Design Department in Kyoto City University of Arts. Before moving to the U.K. in 1992, Mr. Azumi worked for NEC Design Ltd. and Mrs. Azumi worked for an architectural design office. After completing their MA course in Royal College of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Azumi opened their design studio in London in 1995. They work primarily on product and furniture design, and have been associating with Europe and Japan clients. They also work for interior design projects, such as exhibitions, domestic and contract interior environments.
Mr. and Mrs. Azumi's furniture is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (U.K.) and the Stedelijk Museum (Holland). They have received various awards, including the 'Product of the Year' FX International Design Award in 2000 and the 'Best Contribution' Blueprint/100% Design Award in 2003. They have also served on juries for various design awards in the U.K.
URL :
http://www.azumi.co.uk/
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Mr. Makoto Koizumi was born in Tokyo in 1960.
After studying under two designers, Mr. Choei Hara and Mr. Sigemitsu Harahe established Koizumi Studio in 1990.
He handles the entire range of design related to daily living,from household utensils to furniture, architectural spaces, and architecture.
In 1999, he became a part-time instructor in the Department of Environmental Design, Tama Art University. In 2003, Mr. Koizumi opened Koizumi Douguten,a store specializing in tools, in Kunitachi in the suburbs of Tokyo.
He is currently exploring new directions in his work.
URL :
http://www.koizumi-studio.jp/
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Mr. Taku Satoh was born in 1955. He graduated from the Department of Design of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1979 and from the Graduate School of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1981. After working for Dentsu Inc., Mr. Satoh established the Taku Satoh Design Office Inc. in 1984.
Since then, Mr. Satoh has been active in numerous fields, with a particular emphasis on graphic design, including product development, package design, product design, branding, art direction for TV, and media art.
Major projects include product design for Nikka Pure Malt, Lotte Cool Mint Gum, Lotte Xylitol Gum, the RMK Skincare Series, and Meiji Oishii Milk, as well as visual design for BS Asahi and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (scheduled to open in 2004). Mr. Satoh is also involved in planning and art direction for the NHK children's program, Nihongo de asobo (Let's play in Japanese), and the Dezain no kaibo (Anatomy of design) project, which analyses mass-produced products from a design perspective.
Notable writing includes SKELETON (Rikuyosha) and the Dezain no kaibo (Anatomy of design) series (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha).
Mr. Satoh has been awarded the Tokyo ADC Award, the Mainichi Design Award, and JAGDA's New Designer Award.
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Mr. Tokujin Yoshioka was born in 1967. After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School, he studied design under Mr. Shiro Kuramata and Mr. Issei Miyake.
Mr. Yoshioka's notable works include the shop design for ISSEY MIYAKE and A-POC Aoyama; art installations in domestic and foreign exhibitions for ISSEY MIYAKE, Driade, and Hermes; THINK ZONE, which is in the vanguard of the Roppongi Hills urban development project; spatial design for offices for NTT-X, which operates a search engine known as "goo"; a lighting fixture known as ToFU, for which the design extends to lighting effects; a paper chair called Honey-pop, a patent-pending design now found in the permanent collections of major museums around the world, including MoMA in NY; and a product design series known as Tokyo-pop, based on the Honey-pop design, developed for daily use and introduced by the Italian firm Driade. Mr. Yoshioka has undertaken challenging and experimental designs in pursuit of new designs for the future. Recent works include a street furniture piece at Roppongi Hills entitled "Chair disappears in the rain."
Mr. Yoshioka has received numerous awards, including the I.D. Annual Design Review Awards in 2000 and 2001, the A&W Award?The Coming Designer for the Future in 2001, and Mainichi Design Awards in 2001 and 2002.
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