Hirano majored in Design from Tama Art University’s Department of Information and obtained a Master’s Degree in Design from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2017, he worked at the Lab for Social Design at the Design School Kolding as a visiting researcher. Later he worked at transcosmos inc. and Concent, Inc., after which he went on to establish TRIAND (currently DSCL Inc.) in 2011. In January 2019, he joined Uzabase’s SPEEDA business as lead designer and design manager, while also remaining as a director of DSCL Tomoki is a winner of multiple awards including iF DESIGN AWARD, German Design Award, and Good Design Award Best 100. Tomoki Hirano Designer / Design researcher