Jun Takano

Jun Takano is a Japanese industrial designer and the founder of iD4, the Tokyo studio he set up in 2023. He studied electronic control engineering at Kitakyushu National College of Technology and visual communication design at Kyushu Institute of Design, a pairing that still shapes his interest in the seam between mechanism and interface.

His route ran through nendo, Curiosity and BALMUDA, where he led the design team from 2017 and became its chief in 2022 before going independent. iD4 works across furniture, home appliances, IT equipment and mobility, aiming at a fusion of design and engineering that is useful to society and still sparks curiosity; at alter. Tokyo in 2025 Takano presented OMOIYARI PROJECT with Masashi Usami and Naohide Inagaki, turning medical stents and a 3D-printed flower into an installation.