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He spent his teenage years in Colombia graduating from Colegio Nueva Granada, and then returned to Japan to enter Tokyo university.
While he was at the university, he started a tailor made bag business, and studied industrial design at Kuwasawa Design Institute.
Prior to founding CUUSOO.com and elephant design, Kohei was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he primarily handled new product development projects.
Colegio Nueva Granada is an elite bilingual private elementary, middle and high school in Bogotá, Colombia.
between the United States and Japan in a global context since 1907.
The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It was granted "other international body" status in January 2015 by the Swiss Federal Government under the Swiss Host-State Act. The WEF's mission is cited as "committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas".
World Design Capital from ICSID ( International Council of Societies of Industrial Design ).
Also, he was accepted a position a committee member and a judge for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce, and became an advisor to the Secretariat of Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters of Japanese Government.
and became a member to Japan Industrial Designer's Association.
He is currently advising the Danish government to build the world first public user innovation platform, JOIN.dk
- 2014
He was selected our Most Creative People in Business 1000 by fastcompany
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of motorcycles, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense equipment, rolling stock and ships. It is also active in the production of industrial robots, gas turbines, boilers and other industrial products. The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki, and has dual headquarters in Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.
Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is that design is separated from manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features takes place in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the form of the product is determined by the product's creator at the time of its creation.
William Grant "Bill" Moggridge, RDI was a British designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline. Among his achievements, he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards, and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. He was quoted as saying, "If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things."
The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is an award program previously co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine, and in 2010 Fast Company magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). According to the IDSA, IDEA "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy". Every year, designers and corporations submit entries into the competition in many categories. The program was established in 1980. The IDEA winners are honored at annual ceremonies and awarded with a statue made by New York firm, Society Awards. The name was changed from Industrial Design Excellence Awards to International Design Excellence Awards in 2007.
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization of more than 34,000 individual members and 75 Member Associations (MAs) representing water quality professionals around the world. WEF, which was formerly known as the Federation of Sewage Works Associations and later as the Water Pollution Control Federation, and its members have protected public health and the environment since 1928. As a global water sector leader, the organization's mission is to connect water professionals; enrich the expertise of water professionals; increase the awareness of the impact and value of water; and provide a platform for water sector innovation. WEF members include experts and specialists in the fields of:
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) was founded in 1957 from a group of international organizations focused on industrial design. Today Icsid is a worldwide society that promotes better design around the world, and has since been renamed the World Design Organization in January 2017. Today, WDO includes over 140 member organizations in more than 40 nations, representing an estimated 150,000 designers.
Peter Zec is a German design consultant as well as author and publisher. Furthermore, he is president (2005–2007) of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), the global organisation that promotes better design around the world, and initiator of the Red Dot Design Award. In October 2006, the German business magazine “Wirtschaftswoche” elected him one of the “20 creative unconventional thinkers changing the appearance of their companies and creating completely new markets”.
The Good Design Award is Japanese comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system, operated by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion. The system has its origins in the “Good Design Selection System” instituted by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1957.
Terje Meyer is a Norwegian industrial designer. He has designed a wide range of products for very different purposes; electronics, fittings, office furniture, farm machinery, household appliances, details for interiors and comprehensive systems in the genre labeled "Public design". More than 90 items are clearly distinguishable as "Meyer designs".
The Taiwan Excellence Awards are yearly awards that are given out by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to encourage Taiwan industries to upgrade and incorporate innovation and value into their products. The selection of awards is based on four criteria: R&D, design, quality, and marketing. Each product must score evenly well in each category in order to be selected. An international panel of judges is invited to participate in this selection, in which the finalists surface after several evaluations.
André Ricard is a Catalan industrial designer. He designed the torch for the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1993 he won the Creu de Sant Jordi award.
Mark Dziersk is an American industrial designer based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Design Society is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation with a focus on engineering design.The Design Society is a charitable body, registered in Scotland under the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, number SC 031694. The Design Society’s flagship event is the biennial International Conference in Engineering Design (ICED).
Shashi Caan a design futurist, educator and author, her dedication to furthering human betterment through and by design is reflected in her 25-year design career.
Lego Ideas is a website run by Chaordix and The Lego Group, which allows users to submit ideas for Lego products to be turned into potential sets available commercially, with the original designer receiving 1% of the royalties. It started in 2008 as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo.
Tapani Hyvönen is a Finnish designer and founder and board member of ED-Design Ltd. in Turku, Finland.
Richard Muirhead is an Australian-British technologist, Internet entrepreneur, investor and bitcoin pioneer. He was Main Board Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee and Interim CEO of Automic Software, an international enterprise and IT software company and Managing Partner of Firestartr.co, a Europe-focused seed acceleration platform with over 40 portfolio companies including AdBrain, ClusterHQ, Rightster and YoYo. He co-founded and was Senior Vice President of Orchestream which IPO'd in 2000 attaining a market cap of $1.4Bn and whose product is now successfully sold by Oracle. In 2002, he was founder, CEO & chairman of Tideway Systems which he sold to BMC in 2009.
Mike Moradi is an American biochemist, entrepreneur and diabetes advocate. Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Sensulin, a company that strives to provide a once-a-day solution for type I/II diabetics. He has founded or helped establish more than a dozen nanotechnology and biotechnology companies. He was selected as one of the 2017 Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. He is frequently invited as speaker at technology and business conferences and workshops worldwide, on topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship and the future of diabetes.
In 2018, the World Economic Forum, World Resources Institute, Philips, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, United Nations Environment Programme, and over 40 other partners launched the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy. PACE advocates for a circular economy: "one that exchanges the typical cycle of make-use-dispose of in favour of redesign, reuse and recycling. According to the International Resource Panel, globally, nearly 90 billion tonnes of materials were consumed last year. This is predicted to double by 2050. Only 9% is cycled back into the economy, wasting an estimated $4.5 trillion in “recoverable” resources."
