::: yumiko tanaka :::

Name : Yumiko Tanaka / 田中友美子 Date of Birth : 10 October, 1977 Nationality : Japanese E-mail : mail@yumikotanaka.net Phone : +44(0)77-8948-0307 2004 - 2006 Royal College of Art MA Interaction Design 2003-2004 Goldsmiths College, University of London Diploma in English Language for the Arts and Social Sciences 1996-2000 Musashino Art University BA Visual Communication Design	July 2008 - Present Nokia I am a member of the Service and UI Design (SUID) department at Nokia Design in London. February 2008 - May 2008 Forpeople ltd Forpeople is a design consultancy in London. I worked on strategic designs for various large corporations. January 2008 Fallon London I was involved, as an expert of children and play, in planning an advertising campaign targeting children aged 6-12. September 2006 - January 2008 Hasbro Europe I started to work for the Greenhouse team, helping to produce future concepts for toys. Then I was attached to the BlueRocket Studio, which focuses on a time frame of 5-10years into the future and looks for new areas and business opportunities through conceptual projects. 2005 summer ARD (Ab Rogers Design) I worked as intern. I was mainly involved in the OZOcar project, the first eco-luxury car service launched in New York. I also worked on an exhibition for the V&A called Hearwear: the future of hearing. 2002-2003 IKKO TANAKA design studio I prepared the exhibition IKKO Tanaka : A Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and SUNTORY MUSEUM, Osaka. I was also concerned with compiling Ikko's catalogue raisonné, published by the Asahi Shinbun. 2000-2002 Aleph Zero Co., Ltd. I gained professional skills of an editorial designer. I worked for 'anan' magazine published by Magazine House. 1997-1998 I helped to design and create window displays for KOOKAì and TSUMORI CHISATO in Tokyo.	July - August 2006 SEVEN IDEAS at Embassy of Japan in the UK, London June 2006 The Summer Show 2006 at Royal College of Art, London July 2005 Mattel Design Summit at the Mattel, Los Angeles Selected to represent the RCA in a toy design project against entries from New York University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Hong Ik University, Seoul and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Milan. June - August 2002 art.bit collection at NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo June 2000 CONTACT at Musashino Art University, Tokyo