Native name 榮久庵 憲司 Name Kenji Ekuan Occupation Industrial designer | Nationality Japanese Residence Japan | |
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Born September 11, 1929 ( 1929-09-11 ) Tokyo Died February 8, 2015(2015-02-08) (aged 85)
Tokyo Alma mater Tokyo University of the Arts | ||
Designer kenji ekuan dies aged 85 feb 11 2015
Kenji Ekuan (榮久庵 憲司, Ekuan Kenji, September 11, 1929 – February 8, 2015) was a Japanese industrial designer, best known for creating the design of the Kikkoman soy sauce bottle.
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- Designer kenji ekuan dies aged 85 feb 11 2015
- How to unleash creativity in your life and business story of kenji ekuan
- Biography
- Selected works
- Railway vehicles
- Logos
- Honors and awards
- Published books
- References
How to unleash creativity in your life and business story of kenji ekuan
Biography
Born in Tokyo on September 11, 1929, Ekuan spent his youth in Hawaii. At the end of World War II, he moved to Hiroshima, where he witnessed the atomic bombing of the city, in which he lost his sister and his father, a Buddhist priest. He said the devastation motivated him to become a "creator of things". Later he attended Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (present-day Tokyo University of the Arts). In 1957, he founded GK Industrial Design Laboratory (ＧＫインダストリアルデザイン研究所). "GK" stood for "Group of Koike", as Koike was the name of an associate professor at the university.
In 1970, he became president of the Japan Industrial Designers' Association and five years later he was elected as president of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
During his lifetime he served as chair of the Japan Institute of Design, dean of Shizuoka University of Art and Culture was and a trustee of the Art Center College of Design.
Ekuan died in the hospital in Tokyo on February 8, 2015, at the age of 85.
Selected works
Products that Ekuan oversaw the design of included the following.
Railway vehicles
Logos
He also served as co-general producer for the World Design Exposition 1989 held in Nagoya.