DIRECTOR / DESIGNER

Tomoko Azumi
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 in 1995 together with Shin Azumi, her former husband.  They took part in exhibitions such as 100% Design London, Happening Tokyo and SaloneSatellite in 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. She is a project tutor at Design Products of the Royal College of Art, and Visiting Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University 2006-2007.

DESIGNERS

Barbara Etter
Barbara joined t.n.a. design studio in April 2005. She was born in Switzerland in 1972, and received Eidgenössisch Dipl. Designer FH at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich in 2004.

Yasuyuki Sakurai
Yasu was born in Japan in 1977, and studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design between 2001-2004. Yasuyuki joined the team in February 2006. He has also been working with his partner Risa as doknot on various projects.

Maiko Tsutsumi
Maiko was born in Japan in 1971. She 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

Helena Jonasson 04/08-07/08
Nina Hausammann 01/08-03/08
Nic Wallenberg 10/07-12/07
Thorunn Arnadottir 07/07-09/07
Alice Lasaga 04-08/07
Pierric Verger 02-04/07
Theodore Richardson 10-12/06
Samuel Wingate 07-09/06
Stefan Mathys 04/06-07/06
Machiko Yanagi 11-02/06
Karin Lehmann 09-11/05
Tim Yeoh 06-09/05