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<p>New page: '''Tokujin Yoshioka''' is a Japanese designer. ==Biography== Tokujin Yoshioka was born on January 1st, 1967 in the <a href="/wiki/Saga_Prefecture" title="Saga Prefecture">Saga Prefecture</a>. He graduated from the <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Kuwasawa_Design_School&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Kuwasawa Design School">Kuwasawa Design School</a> in...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Tokujin Yoshioka''' is a Japanese designer. <br /> ==Biography==<br /> Tokujin Yoshioka was born on January 1st, 1967 in the [[Saga Prefecture]]. He graduated from the [[Kuwasawa Design School]] in [[Tokyo]] in 1986. After completing his education, he went on to study design under [[Shiro Kuramata]] and [[Issey Miyake]], the former for 2 years and the latter for 4. In 1992, he decided to embark on his own design adventures as a freelancer for several years until he opened up the [[Tokujin Yoshioka Design Office]] in 2000. Since then he has designed several shops, spaces for the interiors of many different car manufacturers including [[Nissan]], Lexus and BMW. He has won numerous international design awards. He also has four different works that are on permanent display at the New York Museum of Modern Art.<br /> <br /> ==About Yoshioka==<br /> Tokujin Yoshioka does not have a specific area of design expertise. Instead, he has designed several different types of products in his life. He is most known for his interior designs and furniture (including a chair made only of expandable honeycomb paper like [[Origami]]), but beyond that he has designed cell phones ([[MoMA]]), storefronts and a number of other different items.<br /> ==Awards==<br /> *JCD Design Award (1997)<br /> *ID Annual Design Review (2000, 2001)<br /> *Malnichi Design Award (2002)<br /> *Talents du Luxe (2005)<br /> *Encouragement Prize (Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2007) <br /> *BVLGARI Brilliant Dreams Award (2007)<br /> ==Permanent Collections==<br /> *[[Honey-Pop]] (a chair that gets larger made only of paper)<br /> *ToFU (a lamp made only of acrylic and aluminum)<br /> *[[Media Skin]] (cell phone)<br /> *PANE Chair (fibers rolled in a paper tube and baked in a kiln like bread)<br /> ==External Links==<br /> *[http://www.tokujin.com/en2/main.html Official English Homepage, Tokujin Yoshioka]<br /> *[http://www.architecture-page.com/go/products/the-pane-chair PANE chair]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Japanese Designers]]</div>

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