Alumni Stories

2024

My Journey to Be a Media Innovator

Arata Hoshino

KMD as the Turning Point

Takahiro Nemoto

KMD = A Place for Co-creation

Goki Miyakita

Becoming an Engineer with Multiple Perspectives

Yukari Konishi

A turning point in the tech industry

Seokjoo HAN

Data and the Media

Atsushi Tamura

Where It All Began

Sakura Tukagoshi

2023

Play, Create and Keep Dreams Alive

Charlotte Lin

Celebrating diversity and collaboration

Marcos Sadao Maekawa

Student to Start-up

Jimi Okelana

KMD as a foundation for forming connections

Shino Kinoshita

The beginning of my international career

Dore Rodrigues, Gustavo

From KMD to designing creative learning

Yumiko Murai

2022

Somehow, I became a researcher.

Kentaro Yasu

My KMD journey

Alexandra Bounxouei

Age is no obstacle to resuming one’s studies

Joon Young Hur

The human side

Nahuel Salcedo

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question

Benjamin Tag

Challenge everything

Komkid Topoklang

2021

IT engineer → KMD → Space exploration

Shintaro Hashimoto

Life can take you on a different journey but let’s ace it anyway

Ami Yao

Design offers unlimited opportunities

Punne Ratanabanthoon

Passion Drives Innovation

Yamen Saraiji

Where everything started

Kei Hiroi

2020

How to Make a Not Technology Driven Innovation

Mai Orikasa

Good design is good business

Boris Jitsukata

Where Innovators are Born

Haruka Mera

Making awesome things with awesome people

Daisuke Yukita

How My Journey Started

Jiahui Zhou

2019

Raising the “batting average” of successfully creating something from nothing and extending the reach of the “hit ball” to increase our presence

Moe Kobayashi

To seek, to define and to practice design

Niya Kabir

A Place Linking Research with Business

Shinichi Fujikawa

Sharing the Outcomes of Regional Revitalization Tested in Local Communities

Takashi Oe

Where I have reinvented myself

Felipe Pontes

2018

Bridging the gap between Research and Product Design for helping mankind

Charith Fernando

The strength to live as an artist

Minori Nagashima

Implementing one’s ideas in society through research and entrepreneurship

Erika Okude

Aiming for next-generation innovations through the implementation of industry-academia partnerships

Naoya Takei

A place of co-creation

Yuko Kawano

2017

Standing at the crossroads of design and technology

Kim Huisun

Learning, sharing, and enjoying

Hiromi Uwabo

The largest reward is the connections

Ryunosuke Takahashi

The power of collaboration

Yuta Sugiura

Think while running

Miki Kunitomo

Guild of my daily work

Gustavo Dore Rodrigues

2016

Continuing to learn and then continually putting that learning into practice

Shino Kinoshita

Creating what I need

Yumiko Murai

The KMD ethos

Tomomi Ota

Precious experience that guided me to a start up

Nahuel Salcedo

Thinking with depth, acting with strength

Yuki Shintani

Tackling problems from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines

Masaharu Hirose

2015

KMD is the best place to do something creative, innovative, and fun.

Anusha Withanage

I saw a vast improvement in my expression skills at KMD.

Masato Takahashi

Every thought and idea has a chance to be heard and to be realized at KMD.

Chin Ching Chang

What qualities do things that are loved by large numbers of people possess?

Keigo Hatayama

To continue to explore new frontiers

Toru Miyamoto

I learned by using my body and senses at KMD.

Izumi Yagi

To pursue a global career

Moe Inaki

2014

The value of design beyond formative art

Ryu Yamamoto

Everything was completely new, that was especially why each day was fresh

Aya Okabe

Maintaining a strong will for creation

Fabien Delmotte

Experience is everything

Yuta Takeuchi

Combining the social with a personal sense of mission

Kensuke Fujishiro

The possibility to acquire new skills and apply them in practice

Jan Rod

A fulfilling environment

Annisa Mahdia Pratiwi

2013

Creating services and products I believe in

Daisuke Ishikawa

My experience at KMD as a foundation for becoming an entrepreneur

Akihiro Ichimura

The great importance of working together and working by hand

Chihiro Sato

Realizing projects that impact people’s lives

Wei Liang Lin

Ultimate goal of my research

Tomonari Nomura

Design research aimed at practical use in the real world

Yuichiro Kage

Working by hand and thinking simultaneously

Takuya Isogai

2012

My Experiences in the Real Projects Continue to Serve Me Well

Daisuke Horiguchi

My Experience at KMD as a Foundation for Contributing to the World

Mizue Hayashi

Ability to Provide Solutions from Design Perspectives

Dore Gustavo

It’s Real, and that’s What Makes it Exciting

Marlin Lao Tambowon

Working with such a Wide Range of People Improves Your Social Skills

Lan-Lan Ma