Product and Interior Designer Kazuhiro Yamanaka was born in Tokyo in 1971. He graduated in Interior Design from the Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (1992-95 BA (Des.)). In 1997, after achieving a Master Degree in the Royal College of Art (RCA), he founded the Kazuhiro Yamanaka Office in London and worked and lived in Europe for more than a decade. He participates in different aspects of design: from piece furniture design to lighting design, Installation and Interior design. He was appointed as an associate professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo since 2014.

Kazuhiro’s multidisciplinary approach challenges the boundaries of product design, lighting design and Art. He thinks that “there is a value only to those invisible. I admire the space around objects, not the objects itself. Designing the object is meaningless to me; object is just a tool to design the space around”.

This Design Exhibition “Kazuhiro Yamanaka: Visible × Invisible” presented in psD of Power Station of Art is this unique designer’s first major exhibition in China. 14 projects including a new product designed especially for this exhibition are displayed in the exhibition. A kinetic lighting installation is also shown.

Welcome to this visible / invisible space of Light and Shadow. Please enjoy and fully experience the speakable / unspeakable design philosophy of Kazuhiro.

Exhibition space designed by Saori Miwa from Littleinc.

Lighting designed by Yuko Yamashita from Y2 Lighting Design.