Industrial Design

Henry Takatsu

William (Henry) Takatsu was born on 1927 in Haney, BC (now Maple Ridge) the second youngest of seven siblings to parents (strawberry and vegetable farmers), Shunsuke and Tatsu Takatsu (nee Mitsuhashi), who were originally from Narita, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. During the Federal government internment, his family was relocated to the Franco-Manitoban community of La Rochelle, […]

Banri Nakamura

Banri Nakamura was born in Tokyo, and moved close to Kyoto to escape the air raids of the Second world war which caused the deaths of his father, grandfather, aunt, and uncle. After ten years of country life, Nakamura moved back to Tokyo, and studied at a Industrial art technical high school where he specialized […]