"ATHLETE" Exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

Design Engineer, Project Director

With Takram since 2012, Hisato is an award-winning design engineer whose multidisciplinary abilities span from hardware to software and from art to science. After working LEADING EDGE DESIGN corp., Hisato founded ON THE FLY Inc. in 2010 and produced a number of influential works including the notable on the fly navigation design. A recipient of the Good Design Award in 2004 and the German iF Product Design Award in 2005, his work has most recently received acclaim at the Media Arts Festival held by the Japanese National Agency of Cultural Affairs in 2012. He holds a B.Eng. in Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and Media-Master degree from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS).

Hisato Ogata

Shinji Inamoto, imaginative inc., Daijiro Ohara, Naho Okamoto(SIRI SIRI), Noriaki Okamoto, Yukiya Okuda, Yota Kakuda, Ayame Kikuchi, groovisions, Howard Schatz, SHUKYU + Gottingham, Keijiro Takahashi, Takram, Mitsuru Tokisato, Adam Pretty (Getty Images), Yasuhiro Hoshino, Takuya Hosogane, Liu Gongzhen (LIUKOBO), LENS (Kenichi Okada + Kunie Hiyamizu), Junji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

ASICS Corporation, Amer Sports Japan Inc., SAP Japan Co., Ltd., OX ENGINEERING Co., Ltd., GOLDWIN INC., Xiborg Co., Ltd., Tec Gihan Co., Ltd., NISSIN MEDICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD., Bridgestone Cycle Co., Ltd., MIZUNO Corporation, Yamamoto Kogaku Co., Ltd.

R&D, design, prototyping of spatial experiences such as retail, installation, exhibition etc

Spatial

Takram’s director Hisato Ogato directed Athlete Exhibition for 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in 2017, along with Dai Tamesue, a former top athlete who is involved in different activities around sports industry, and Shunichi Suge, a researcher/filmmaker.

Athlete Exhibition

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