MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO
Issey Miyake, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo and graduated in 1964. He later traveled around the world and worked in Paris and New York. He will return to Tokyo only in 1970 to found the Miyake Design Studio. In 1971 his first collection was shown in New York. His creations have often been characterized by the search for new materials and futuristic technologies and dark colors. After a twenty-year career, Miyake left the fashion creations to his collaborator Naoki Takizawa, and he began to research again. In 1998, the Cartier Foundation opened an exhibition on Miyake's work called Making Things. In 2005 Miyake received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture, and in 2006 he won the Kyōto Prize for Arts and Philosophy. In 2014 the Japanese artist won the prestigious ADI Compasso d'Oro award for the creation of the IN-EI family of lamps, made for the Italian Artemide furniture and lighting company. This project was the result of a journey carried out by the artist with his research about new technologies for the reuse and recycling of materials starting from waste raw materials, in order to obtain a new material with specific capacities.