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Takuo Hirano

Japanese designer
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    Under this program Takuo Hirano—founder of one of Japan’s largest industrial design firms, Hirano & Associates (1960)—studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. In 1957 MITI established the Good Design Awards (formerly the Good Design Selection System), or G-Marks. The G-Mark award system consists…

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    Under this program Takuo Hirano—founder of one of Japan’s largest industrial design firms, Hirano & Associates (1960)—studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. In 1957 MITI established the Good Design Awards (formerly the Good Design Selection System), or G-Marks. The G-Mark award system consists…

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