Lixil

Founded in 2006, Takram Design Engineering is a Tokyo-based creative and innovation firm offering concept, product and experience design for a variety of international clients. This group of “design engineers” is fluent in both creative design and technical engineering, and explores the capabilities of new technologies and their possibilities by observing everyday life through the vantage point of design. Through detailed writing and diagrams, this volume describes their methods of rapid prototyping, story weaving and problem re-framing, used to bridge the gaps between the physical and conceptual and transform abstract ideas into applicable concepts and tangible products.