NORIKO HASHIDA DESIGN

NORIKO HASHIDA DESIGN is the studio of Noriko Hashida, a product designer and professor in the product design area at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1988 and spent two decades at TOTO, where she designed the Neorest toilet, faucets, basins, vanity units and kitchens, latterly as design director.

She left TOTO in 2008, joined Shibaura Institute of Technology and opened her own studio. Her work ranges from sanitary ware and kitchen fittings to chairs, tableware and childcare products, made with manufacturers such as Takagi, Okamura, Iwasaki and Jacquet. Awards include a Red Dot Award in 2021 and iF Design Awards in 2022 for a touchless kitchen faucet, plus numerous Good Design Awards; she also serves as a Good Design Award jury member.