Kotaro Usugami

Usugami was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1991 and graduated from the Department of Design Information, Faculty of Business Design, Miyagi University in 2013. He completed the Product Design course at the Graduate School of Arts and Design, Kanazawa College of Art in 2016. Since then, he has been engaged in designing wristwatches for a watch manufacturer. Focusing on the process of product design through physical trial and error, he takes a comrehensive approach that goes beyond the design of individual products to incorporate communication. He has received many awards, including the Good Design Award.