Eisuke Tachikawa, Director & Founder of NOSIGNER Design, Yokohama
Eisuke and NOSIGNER work across product, graphic, and spatial design to address social challenges including climate change, disaster preparedness, resource circulation, and regional revitalization.
He founded ADAPTMENT, a framework for urban climate adaptation inspired by biological evolution, and OLIVE, an open-source disaster relief design platform. Eisuke also led the creation of Tokyo Bousai, which was distributed to 8 million households. His work has received more than 150 international design awards, including the DFA Design for Asia Designer of the Year.
As Project Professor at Keio University and Honorary Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art, Eisuke has nurtured change-makers across industry, academia, and government, contributing to innovation at over 60 organizations. His book Evolutional Creativity received the Yamamoto Shichihei Prize — the first time a work on methodology has won this prestigious humanities award in Japan. Eisuke also received the GANESA WIDYA JASA ADIUTAMA Award, the highest academic honor from the Bandung Institute of Technology, in recognition of outstanding contributions to knowledge and education. He serves as chair of the Benesse Educational Research and Development Institute’s “Council on the Future of Higher Education,” among other roles, advancing the spread of creative education.
In 2015, Eisuke served as Concept Director (Chair) of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Cool Japan Movement Promotion Council. From 2021 to 2025, he served as the youngest-ever president of JIDA (Japan Industrial Designers’ Association), Asia’s oldest design body, leading the first World Design Congress in Japan in 34 years and the rebranding of the Japan Design Organizations Council (formerly D8) as DOO. Since 2023, he has served as a board member of WDO (World Design Organization), a UN special consultative organization, and as Master Plan Creator for the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, continuing to advance the social implementation of design and innovation.
Eisuke was a Spark Juror on the Hong Kong Bench and long a friend of Spark.
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