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New page: '''Tokujin Yoshioka''' is a Japanese designer. ==Biography== Tokujin Yoshioka was born on January 1st, 1967 in the Saga Prefecture. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School in...

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'''Tokujin Yoshioka''' is a Japanese designer.
==Biography==
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.

==About Yoshioka==
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.
==Awards==
*JCD Design Award (1997)
*ID Annual Design Review (2000, 2001)
*Malnichi Design Award (2002)
*Talents du Luxe (2005)
*Encouragement Prize (Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2007)
*BVLGARI Brilliant Dreams Award (2007)
==Permanent Collections==
*[[Honey-Pop]] (a chair that gets larger made only of paper)
*ToFU (a lamp made only of acrylic and aluminum)
*[[Media Skin]] (cell phone)
*PANE Chair (fibers rolled in a paper tube and baked in a kiln like bread)
==External Links==
*[http://www.tokujin.com/en2/main.html Official English Homepage, Tokujin Yoshioka]
*[http://www.architecture-page.com/go/products/the-pane-chair PANE chair]

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Japan2000: New page: '''Tokujin Yoshioka''' is a Japanese designer. ==Biography== Tokujin Yoshioka was born on January 1st, 1967 in the Saga Prefecture. He graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School in...