Yuta Takahashi

Yuta Takahashi is an Art Director & Designer running a design studio of the same name in Japan. Check out our chat with him below. EM: What is your background as a designer? YT: I don’t really think of myself as a designer. I didn’t reach a certain age, decide that I wanted to be a designer, and then attend school to learn the trade; and I’ve never thought about attending any school to learn design. The source of my designs comes from the undeniable presence of design in daily life, such as when I’m cooking or making alterations to clothing, or the manner in which I played when I was young. With age, one’s view of society expands, and design springs from thoughts such as, “wouldn’t a product more like this be interesting?” or “wouldn’t a design like this look cool?” Of course, it’s necessary to understand design techniques and to have a mathematical understanding of design, and I like to undertake such research, but the roots of my design can be found in my search for fun ways to play when I was a child, and nothing has changed since then.