LEADING EDGE DESIGN corp.

[Office]
Phone: +81 03 6302 0632
email info@lleedd.com

Shunji Yamanaka
Designer, Founder

1982  		B.Eng. (Mechanical Engineering), the University of Tokyo, Japan
1982-1987  	Exterior Designer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
1987  		Freelance Industrial Designer
1991-1994  	Associate Professor, the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan
1994-2013	President, LEADING EDGE DESIGN corp.
2008-2013	Professor, the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan
2014  		Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

[Awards and Honors]
INFINITI Q45: Good Design, MITI,  Japan, 1989
Ecru: Selected in the Innovative Design in Germany, 1992	
Tagtype: iF Product Design Award, Germany, 2001
NTT DoCoMo OnQ: Good Design Award, 2004 / iF Product Design Award, Germany, 2005
OXO Daikon Grator: Good Design Award Gold Prize, 2006
Aimulet LA: Good Design Award Ecology Design Prize, 2006
Mainichi Design Award, the Designer of the Year in Japan 2004