Kinya Tagawa Design Engineer Representing Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa City Kinya Tagawa is a design engineer who runs the international design agency Takram, with studios in Tokyo and London. Born in Tokyo in 1976, he holds an MA in Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) from the Royal College of Art. Following graduation, he worked at Leading Edge Design Corp. as a design engineer. Tagawa is well versed in a wide range of technology and design fields from spatial design and interactive artworks to software and hardware. Prominent projects include “tagtype”, a Japanese character input device which is now part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; presentation design for Toyota's e-Palette Concept (2018); direction of the Japanese government's regional economic analysis system V-RESAS since 2020; and assistant CXO at Mercari (2018-2020). In 2018, Tagawa was involved as a core member in the creation and drafting of the "Design Management Declaration” of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Patent Office. He has received numerous awards, including the Japan Good Design Gold Prize, the James Dyson Design Award and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, UK, as well as author of "Innovation Skill Sets" and other books.
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