Makiko TSUMURA
Director, Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Board Member, World Design Organization
tsumura@jidp.or.jp

JDP is Japan’s only institution dedicated to comprehensive promotion of design. The promotion encompasses the internationally recognized “Good Design Award” program—held for more than 60 years; and activities at “Good Design Marunouchi” and “Tokyo Midtown Design Hub” the gallery and seminar spaces to share compelling design and explore its potential. The pandemic of the new coronavirus has transformed our lifestyles and caused a major shift in our sense of values. New standards and ways of thinking are needed, and expectations are rising for the power of design to incorporate them into real life. In fact, the number of entries for this year’s Good Design Award has increased significantly from the previous year, and many proposals for “with Corona” and “post Corona” living and working styles have been submitted. Through the activities with Lithuania, we hope to have opportunities to exchange knowledge on how daily life has changed, how the structure of industry and society has changed, and what kind of design solutions are being proposed for these changes.

Eglė Trimonė
egleop@gmail.com
Head, design studio MARCH
Founder, LITHUANIAN DESIGN BLOCK platform
Board Member, Lithuanian Design Council

Head of the design studio MARCH, national winner (with March design studio) of Lithuania in the contest CREATIVE BUSINESS CUP 2014 (Copenhagen, Denmark). Nomination in TOP 16 of the most creative and upcoming companies in the world, organizer and curator of numerous international Lithuanian Design exhibitions in Vilnius, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Moscow. Egle has organized several design competitions and participated in many competitions as a member of the jury. Speaker and lecturer at several international conferences, such as “Design and business collaboration possibilities and perspectives” or CUMULUS conference DESIGN OF CHANGE.

Eisuke TACHIKAWA
est@nosigner.com
Representative, NOSIGNER
President, Japan Industrial Design Association
Evolution Thinking Thinker, Design Strategist
Associate Professor, Keio University Graduate School SDM
The committee member to create a basic policy for the Japan Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka

Tachikawa is the designer who created evolutionary thinking, looking at creativity from the perspective of biological evolution. He aims to revolutionize creativity in education by fostering revolutionaries to create a beautiful future across all sectors.
He continues to work toward a beautiful future through design (practice: social design) and fostering revolutionaries through creativity education based on nature itself (philosophy: evolution thinking). Tachikawa has gone beyond the realms of products, graphics, and architecture to create comprehensive strategies for countless next-generation energy, regional revitalization, and SDG related projects, and lead them all to success. Tachikawa is the author of “Evolution Thinking” (Ama no Kaze, 2021) and “Design and Innovation – 50 ways to create the future” (Pi International, 2016).

Algirdas ORANTAS
Chairman, Lithuanian Design Association
Member of the Board, Lithuanian Design Council
Member of the Board, Lithuanian Cultural and Creative Industries
Partner, design agency Critical
Partner, design agency Etiquette
algirdas.orantas@lda.lt

Algirdas Orantas has more than 20 years of experience in the field of design. He began his career in graphic design with advertising and publishing projects and later focused on service and packaging design with brand development at its core.

He is currently a partner at design agencies Critical and Etiquette, the Chairman of the Lithuanian Design Association (LDA), a member of the Board of the Lithuanian Design Council, and a member of the Board of the Lithuanian Cultural and Creative Industries. Actively participates in the coordination of the Lithuanian design professional community and the formation of Lithuanian design policy.

Gabija VANAGĖ
CEO, Lithuanian Design Forum
vanage@dizainoforumas.lt

Lithuanian Design Forum (LDF) is one of the largest design representation units in the Baltic States. LDF seeks the acknowledgement of design as a catalyst for the development of modern society and the base for sustainable economical growth, it promotes extensive use of design in production and public life. LDF organizes exhibitions of design works and introduces and promotes good design examples to the public. For more than 15 years it organises Design Week Lithuania and a National design awards competition. It also runs the DESIGN LITHUANIA initiative, a series of Lithuanian design expositions, that have already been showcased in Paris, London, Stockholm, Brussels, Riga, Helsinki and other European capitals. LDF is a proud member of BEDA – Bureau of European Design Associations. LDF currently has over 40 members from the main design industries: furniture design and manufacturing, interior elements and accessories, product industrial design, fashion accessories, textiles.