Fumie Shibata

Fumie Shibata (柴田 文江, Shibata Fumie, born 1965) is a Japanese industrial designer. She graduated from Musashino Art University and, after working at Toshiba, established her own design studio Design Studio S in 1994. She designs a wide range of products, with her representative works including Omron's thermometers "MC-670" and "MC-681", and Acure's digital vending machine, and the capsule hotel 9h. She has won numerous awards, including the Mainichi Design Award, the Good Design Gold Award, the JCD Grand Award, the iF Gold Award, and the Red Dot Design Award.

Since 2014, she works as a professor at Musashino Art University and from 2015 Vice Chairman of the Good Design Award Committee.