Tokyo Institute of Technology

Hello. I am Imaiida. I won the excellent award in ASPaC Awards 2010 (ex-Happy Cube Awards), beverage category. At that time I was a student of architecture and looked up to Mr. Taku Sato, a jury then. It was also attractive for me to create prototype with full size and feeling physical reality, not a one-fifty or one-hundred scale model.

In the corporate trainings after the award ceremony, we, winners in the same generation became close each other. We enjoyed silly conversation at night, but I remember we had exchanged questions and answers in dead earnest during the daytime trainings.

As is often the case in life, the quality of competition will improve each time. I am looking forward to the finals and works I can see this year with great expectations and sense of crisis for the achievement of younger generations.

(2010 winner Kayoko Imaiida)