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About Tomohiro Horibe : TOMOHIRO HORIBE is first-class licensed Architect, product designer and company president of his own building material selling company. Born in Japan 1969 and studied Architect at Tokyo Metropolitan University. First career was condominium design at construction company for 5 years. Second career was product development and product design at Log Home building company for 8 years, and lived in Vancouver of Canada 3 years at that time. During construction business career total more than 13 years, learned about building material a lot. Established Material World in 2006 that is building material selling company in Japan. Many of selling products are very unique and special item because not selling regular item, but selling original producing items. Not only product design, but also packaging design, product name, brochure design, lighting done by own. Loves recycled material, natural products, and brand new ideas.
STATEMENT OF ART:
Design must not be a selfish. "Function" should not be sacrificed. Do not be strange, it must be simple but it solve something trouble or make it better. Design must be something special that people love it for a long time.

ORGANIZATION:
TIME&GARDEN CO., LTD.

EDUCATION:
Graduate Tokyo Metropolitan University Architectural course in Tokyo/Japan 1993.

EXPERIENCE:
Facility design department, MITSUI construction CO., LTD. 1993-1998.
Product Development Department, RC CORE CO., LTD. 1998-2006.
President, TIME&GARDEN CO., LTD. 2006-now.

AWARDS:
2013, GOOD DESIGN AWARD in JAPAN.
2015, OMOTENASHI-SERECTION in JAPAN.
2016, KIDS DESIGN AWARD in JAPAN.

PRESS APPEARANCES:
2013, "BrooklynLaundreel", Bangkok Post news paper,Life page,October, Bangkok, Thai
2016, "BrooklynLaundreel",WABIJIN, page 135, March, Tokyo, Japan

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Japanese(Native)
English (advanced)

HOBBIES:
travel, marathon

CLIENTELE:
2013, ODAKYU, Iron handrail
2014, NAKANORENGASAKA, Iron Street Gate design

WEB SITE:
https://www.materialworld.jp/profile

PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.materialworld.jp/products

REGISTRATION DATE:
2017-09-01 05:32:06

COUNTRY/REGION:
Japan

ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional

Awards received by Tomohiro Horibe


Brooklyn Laundreel Laundry Belt Indoor

Golden A' Design Award Winner for Furniture Design Category in 2017
Tomohiro Horibe for Material World



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