DIRECTOR / DESIGNER

Tomoko Azumi
Project Tutor at Design Products, Royal College of Art
Member of Jury, Good Design Awards, JIDPO, Japan

Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1966, Tomoko Azumi trained as an architect at Kyoto City University of Arts (1985-89 BA) and worked for an architectural practice in Tokyo.  After she studied Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art (1993-95 MA RCA), London, she opened design practice AZUMI with Shin Azumi, her former husband.  They took part in exhibitions such as 100% Design London, Happening Tokyo and SaloneSatellite Milano and began to work with UK, European and Japanese clients.

Tomoko Azumi opened t.n.a. Design Studio in 2005, after dissolving the former partnership.  Since its start, t.n.a. Design Studio has been an incubator of her new challenges, developing products for clients, as well as supporting her researches.  She was a Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University 2006-2007.
 

DESIGNERS

Barbara Etter
Barbara joined t.n.a. design studio in April 2005. She received Eidgenössisch Dipl. Designer FH at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich in 2004.

Yasuyuki Sakurai
Yasu studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design between 2001-2004. Yasuyuki joined the team in February 2006.

Maiko Tsutsumi
Maiko received a MA in furniture design from the RCA in 1998, and has completed her PhD in contemporary design history and practice in 2007 at Kingston University Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture.

INTERNSHIP

Wilma Pingel  4-6/2010
Jacob Kisker  1-3/2010
Jennifer Rieker  10-12/2009
Leila Chouikh  7-9/2009
Maite del Mundo  4-6/2009
Anne Schiffer  1-3/2009
Matteo Bonacina  10-12/2008
Wendy Chua  7-9/2008
Helena Jonasson  4-7/2008
Nina Hausammann  1-3/2008
Nic Wallenberg  10-12/2007
Thorunn Arnadottir  7-9/2007
Alice Lasaga  4-8/2007
Pierric Verger  2-4/2007
Theodore Richardson  10-12/2006
Samuel Wingate  7-9/2006
Stefan Mathys  4-7/2006
Machiko Yanagi  11/2005-2/2006
Karin Lehmann  9-11/2005
Tim Yeoh  6-9/2005