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Dai Fujiwara (Japanese: 藤原 大; Hepburn: Fujiwara Dai, 1967-) is a Japanese creative director and designer.

Focusing within three areas, Corporate (company), Academy (education), and Region (area) his wide-ranging creative activities designed for the modern society are widely known around the world. Ever since as a student, he has been focusing on the relationship and ethics between nature and human beings.

Through the consumers’ point of view, he continues to carry out the results of his creative endeavors with art design and science technology to connect social issues and business.

He is also a leading force in the open innovation of companies such as Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd., Google, Shiseido, Hitachi, and NAGASE & CO., LTD., and in Shiseido's "LINK OF LIFE" Project, he successfully conducted more than twenty R&D projects annually with the stakeholders.

He is also actively involved in community co-creation activities and has regulated many lectures and projects in Japan including overseas.

"COLOR HUNTING" is his well-known design method and an ongoing research. It is continuously being introduced in junior high schools’ art textbooks from 2017 up to 2025. In recent years, his method has been used in designing the Enoshima Electric Railway trains. Moreover, his work was awarded the Mainichi Design Prize, Good Design Award, and certified as part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA).

He is from Kanagawa Prefecture. Professor at Tama Art University. Honorary Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art and Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo.

Life and Career
1992: Studied Chinese Painting in Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing)..

1994: Graduated from Tama Art University’s Department of Design (Department of Product and Textile Design) and joined Miyake Design Studio.

1998: Founded “A-POC” with designer Issey Miyake.

(A-POC/uses a preprogrammed industrial weaving machine as a design method/technique.)

2000: “A-POC” was awarded the Good Design Award.

2003: Awarded Mainichi Design Prize.

2004: Appointed as vice president of Issey Miyake Design Studio.

2006: Creative Director/Designer of Issey Miyake (Women and Men) Paris Collection. “A-POC INSIDE”2006年、ISSEY MIYAKE （WOMEN / MEN）パリコレクション　クリエイティブディレクター/デザイナー. 「A-POC INSIDE」

2008: Founded DAIFUJIWARA AND COMPANY.

2011: Lectured at Shonan Institute of Technology, Computer Design.

2012: Designed for CAMPER.

2013: Director and venue designer of the exhibition "COLOR HUNTING / Design Starting from Color" at 21_21DESIGN SIGHT.

2013: Director of MUJI to Go, Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.

2014: Became a professor at Department of Production Design, Tama Art University.

2015: Director and venue designer of the exhibition “LINK OF LIFE Touch” held at the Shiseido Building in Ginza, Tokyo.

2016: Director and venue designer of the exhibition "LINK OF LIFE Aging is the Future" held at the Shiseido Building in Ginza, Tokyo.

2017: Director and venue designer of the special exhibition "LINK OF LIFE 2017 Think Right Brain! Exhibition" held at the Shiseido Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.

2018: Designed train cars (2 cars) for Enoshima Electric Railway Co., Ltd..

2018: Creative director of Hitachi, Ltd. Future Vision Project "Hi Miura".

2019: Designer of “Itsumo No Moshimo” (emergency kit) ,Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.

2021: Solo exhibition "Dai Fujiwara The Road of My Cyber Phusical Hands” at Hong Kong HKDI Gallery.

2021: Solo exhibition "Human Nature Dai Fujiwara” at Chigasaki City Museum of Art.