AZUMI Tomoko

安積 朋子

Born in 1966 in Hiroshima. After graduated BA Environmental Design at Kyoto City University of Art in 1989, worked in architectural offices in Tokyo, then moved to the UK. In 1995, graduated MA Furniture Design at Royal College of Art, opened a design unit Azumi in London. Since 2005, she is leading TNA Design Studio and active in product, furniture and space design. Her works are in collection of European museums includes V&A in London. She also took part in jury member for Good Design Award in Japan from 2007 to 2012, as well as iF Design Award in Germany in 2021, among with other awards. She loves paper and its texture, also making models out of it - and collects paper diorama includes Japanese Tatebanko, European tunnel books and other paper models, and a member of Ephemera society in the UK. She started her own design of chair-and-room-diorama “One to Sixteen” with Fukunaga Shiko in 2014, following her paper-polyhedra series "The Geometrist”. She held numerous exhibitions and workshops with these paper models, has a mission on “reviving creative hands” through touching paper and making forms.