Context Designer, Project Director

Kotaro WATANABE splits his time between Tokyo and London, aiming to use design to weave stories rather than simply creating products. He has lived and worked in cities including Tokyo, Hong Kong and Brussels among other places.

Kotaro Watanabe

Design Engineer, Project Director

After graduating from Future University Hakodate, Faculty of Architecture, Minoru Ito gained interaction design experience through the R&D project at GK TECH Inc., and production of museum exhibitions. Skilled at prototyping and developing installations using visual programming tool “vvvv”, in 2014, he published “vvvvook – A GUIDE TO VISUAL PROGRAMMING FOR PROTOTYPING.” He is also involved in plugin development and holds workshops both domestically and internationally. He joined Takram in 2015.

Minoru Ito

Art Director, Project Director

Taro Yumiba graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, Graphic Design Department, and interned at San Francisco advertisement agency Attik. He joined THA ltd. in 2009, where he was involved in a wide range of projects ranging from campaign website and service design, to video production and publications. As a type fanatic, he runs an online compendium of world’s type foundries “TypeCache.com”. Under the TypeCache label, he also sells alphabet t-shirts, writes about European fonts, and gives lectures. He joined Takram in 2015.

Taro Yumiba

Designer

After studying interaction design, Shouhei Hasegawa worked on web applications and digital projects at HAKUHODO i-studio Inc. He graduated from Chiba University, Faculty of Engineering, and Tama Art University, Department of Information Design in 2011, and joined Takram in 2015 as a specialist in UI/UX design.

Shohei Hasegawa

Branding, Visual identity, corporate identity

Brand

Takram worked together with Nikkei as a corporate branding partner, establishing a corporate brand guideline, designing a corporate logo, refining their typography, creating a brand site for their staff, as well as design support for their internal events.

NIKKEI Branding

Through the project, we interviewed more than 30 people who are involved with Nikkei as staff, member of their group company, Financial Times, external media and branding professionals and readers of their contents, rediscovering their corporate identity as well as recognising their current challenges.

NIKKEI Branding

Project Information

Team