Ichiro Iwasaki

The Tokyo-based design veteran is a keen observer of the ways people work and create.

- Katie Okamoto

Ichiro Iwasaki, the Tokyo-based industrial designer who heads Iwasaki Design Studio, has a talent for whittling design briefs down to their essence. “It is all about people,” he says. “Design can’t exist without people.” For almost a quarter of a century, Iwasaki Design Studio has pursued precise attunement to the ways people interact with their environments, resulting in products stripped of superfluous flourishes yet imbued with warmth and character.