About
Kosuke Takahashi
Inventor / Product Designer
Kosuke Takahashi is an inventor / a product designer dedicated to exploring new ways of communication that help people build connections. He has been working on fostering playful communication that transcends disability, age, gender, and other barriers. His recent projects have been nominated for the DIA Award (China, 2021) and exhibited in Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland, 2024).
- Education
2012 – 2016🇯🇵 Keio University — BA in Environmental Informatics (Product Design)
- Experience
2022 – present🇯🇵 Freelance — Inventor / Product Designer
2016 – 2022🇯🇵 Dentsu Inc. — Copywriter / Creative Planner
- Awards & Nominations
2021🇨🇳 DIA Award, Honorable Mention
2021🇯🇵 Good Design Award
2021🇺🇸 The One Club : Young Guns 19
2020🇳🇱 Design Indaba : Antenna, the Best Design Graduates
2019🇯🇵 Tokyo Midtown Award, Excellence Award
2018🇯🇵 WIRED Audi Innovation Award
- Grants & Fellowships
2025🇳🇱 V2_ — Winter Session
2024🇳🇱 V2_ — Summer Session
2024🇯🇵 Mitsui Group — Mitsui Mirai Challengers
- Exhibitions
2025🇯🇵 FUNclusion
2025🇯🇵 Miyashita Park — Gochamaze Playpark
2025🇯🇵 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art — Touch, Untangle, Tones!
2025🇮🇹 Placemaking Week Europe
2025🇳🇱 V2_ Unstable Media — Media Art Cafe
2025🇳🇱 RAUM
2025🇳🇱 MishMash
2025🇳🇱 OBJECT Rotterdam
2024🇨🇭 Museum für Gestaltung Zürich — Design for All?
2022🇯🇵 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum — Creative Well-being Tokyo
2019🇯🇵 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum — TURN FES 5
- Talks
2024🇺🇸 Inscript — Presentation
2024🇦🇹 Schmiede Hallein — Presentation
2021🇨🇳 Tongji University — Lecture
2021🇨🇳 Shanghai Normal University — Lecture
2020🇳🇱 Design Indaba — Presentation
- Bibliography
2024🇨🇭 [Featured] Museum für Gestaltung Zürich — Design for All?
2021🇹🇼 [Featured] Victionary — Good by Design