profile
Nao Tamura is a designer in the most modern terms. Her talents cross-over cultures, languages, disciplines, concepts and styles with consistency of smart thinking always at the heart of her work. She is truly global in her insights and execution. As a product of Tokyo and New York City creative communities, her solutions are equally at ease in the world of 2-D and 3-D with an uncanny ability to find that emotional connection with the audience. Nao defies the kind of categorization that the industry status-quo often insists upon. Her unique solutions are more than simply design and possess a rare balance of innovation and beauty.
John C Jay
Partner | Global Coexecutive Creative Director
Wieden + Kennedy
awards
| category: | awards: | year: | |
| IF Product Design Award | Kitchen / household | IF Product Design Award | 2013 |
| red dot Award | Product Design |
red dot Product Design Award | 2013 |
| A' Design Award | A' Bakeware | Golden A' Design Award | 2012-2013 |
| Milano Salone Satellite Award | Salone Satellite Award | 1st prize | 2010 |
| Good Design Award Japan | Cosmetic Product | Good Design Award | 2009 |
| The One Show | Merit | 2008 | |
| The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design | Packaging | Good Design Award | 2006 |
| IDEA: Industrial Design Excellence Awards | Packaging | Gold | |
| HOW Magazine: 10th annual International Design Competition | Identity system |
Best of Show | |
| IDEA: Industrial Design Excellence Awards | Digital Media |
Silver | |
| HOW Magazine: 10th annual International Design Competition | Branding | Merit | |
| I.D.Magazine: Annual Design Review | Honorable mention |
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| HOW Magazine: 10th annual International Design Competition | Packaging | Outstanding Achievementa |
exhibits
| products: | year: | |
| Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile | WonderGlass / Flow(T) | 2013 |
| New York Design Trust for Public Space Event | Artek / Rings | 2012 |
| Project 2012 Design for Nature | Finland | July stool | 2012 |
| Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile | Seasons | 2012 |
| Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Salone Satellite |
Alight | 2011 |
| Design Miami / LUMINAIRE | transFORM / Seasons | 2010 |
| Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Salone Satellite |
Seasons | 2010 |
| Tokyo Designer’s Week / Triology exhibition |
au design project / Cypress | 2006 |
| Tokyo Designer’s Week | au design project / Hexagon, Machina | 2005 |