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

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

Minoru's work stretches wide from big data visualisation and UI/UX design to service design. He received MITOH Program Super Creator, Software Innovation in 2007 and completed the doctorate program at Tokyo University of The Arts, Department of Design in 2014 before joining Takram in 2014.

Minoru Sakurai

Design Engineer

Ryosuke Fujii is a design engineer with strengths in interaction design and software engineering. After a career as a pastry chef, he worked at a website and application development company, and joined Takram in 2010 after gaining experience in software engineering. He is involved in numerous smartphone service application design and development projects.

Ryosuke Fujii

Satoru Osawa started his career as a researcher in a company manufacturing digital broadcasting products, working on microwaves including millimetre waves. Later, he entered IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences) and also studied Interface Cultures as an exchange student at the University of Art and Design in Linz. He is interested in physical interaction, putting an emphasis on interaction design which accompanies motion. Hardware prototyping is one of his strongest suits. He joined Takram in 2016.

Satoru Osawa

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

Terushige Enatsu aimed to become an illustrator during his college years. Later, he became interested in web design and graphic design, and followed a path in the design field. He joined Takram following a career at a web design company. At Takram, he is primarily engaged in UI/UX projects, and his notable projects include UI design for local guide apps by NTT Docomo. Graduate of Sophia University, Faculty of Economics Department of Management.

Terushige Enatsu

Experience Designer, Project Director

Takeshi Saijo graduated from Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design in 2013. Studies interaction design based on “Design Thinking.” Joined Takram in 2014. He is primarily involved in concept development based on design research, UI/UX design, and service/media development projects. He supervises “Takram academy,” a community project that surpasses company boundaries.

Takeshi Saijo

R&D, design, prototyping of screen-based and/or digital experiences such as app, web, digital services

Digital

Takahiro Ueda, a Mishima award-winning writer is releasing his latest novel series "q" on a monthly literary magazine Shincho and on Yahoo! Japan’s smartphone website simultaneously for 9 months starting from September 2017.

Project q

Takram was in charge of designing the UX/UI of its reading experience on the Yahoo! Japan website, including the typography composition, new interactions for reading vertical text, and generative and interactive illustrations.

Project q

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