Award-winning designer, Hideji Takemasa, lectures in Industrial Design at Tama Art University in Tōkyō, specialising in the field of production design. He is a member of the Japan Industrial Designers’ Association (JIDA) and serves on the judging panels of a number of design competitions, including the G-Mark Good Design Awards and the Jewelry Design Concours. Takemasa has authored several books and articles in Japanese on the subject of design.