Industrial designer Ichiro Iwasaki was born in Tokyo in 1965 and then he began his career as a designer at the Sony Design Center. He then moved to Italy, where he joined several design studios in Milan. In 1995 he returned to Japan and founded the IWASAKI DESIGN STUDIO in Tokyo, continuing to collaborate with prestigious international companies such as Sovet, Arper and Vibia. He received several international awards including the Japan Gold Good Design Award, the if Design Award Gold, the Red Dot Best of the Best and the German Design Award Silver. He is also a lecturer at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Tama Art University.