Miyake Design

Miyake Design is the Tokyo studio of Japanese product designer Kazushige Miyake, founded in 2005. Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1973, Miyake graduated from the product design department of Tama Art University, moved to England to work at a design office there, and returned to Japan in 1999 before setting up his own practice.

The studio designs objects meant to be touched, looking for the shape each thing should have rather than following existing concepts, and aiming at forms that do not date. Its portfolio ranges from audio products and home appliances to furniture and tableware, with work for Bang & Olufsen, HAY, Kokuyo and Areaware, and Miyake has served as a judge for the Good Design Award, the Singapore Good Design Awards and the iF Design Award.