TEDxTokyo - Kiyoyuki 'Ken' Okuyama - 05/15/10 - (English)

Industrial Design Master and Mentor
Ken Okuyama has spent a lifetime fashioning exotic yet practical things of surpassing beauty. The prizewinning car designer has shaped models for General Motors, Porsche and Italys famed Pininfarina, including the Enzo Ferrari and Maserati Quatroporte. Ken left Pininfarina in 2006 and established KEN OKUYAMA DESIGN in 2007. Breaking free of the automotive sphere, he now designs everything from eyewear to theme parks to furniture to humanoid robots. The latter include Nuvo, the worlds first home-use robotic companion. Through KEN OKUYAMA CARS, he unveiled two limited-edition concept Cars-the k.o7 Spider and its all-electric sibling, the k.o8-at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. Ken is a visiting professor at the Art Center College of Design in the U.S. and design colleges in Japan.
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[@venkyG2]

Wow , this presentation by Ken was 11 years back

[@Terrorist332]

I came here to hear his english.

[@vividasalamualaikumhamdant2440]

Everything u do so amazing i love it thank u for your love shigoto gambate ne kakoi hito okane mochii itsumo aishiteru itsumo domo arigato ne shimpai nai ne peace yo

[@AngelTovar]

this guys crazy good!

[@MrPelikan500]

Thanks Ken Okayama! that was inspirational! What is your Dream? ... came here after Jay Leno Kode 0 & Kode 57 videos ... though you were just a damn good designer, but you're much much more than that ... you also think deep -- Systems Thinker!

[@chetanraut2785]

I wish a mode of transportation without a battery but using a electric motor!
it's possible!

[@markanthonymuldong3922]

I really like the design it's not that just a solar panel it also can takes in water and the way to the future is we need to stop using fossil fuel i love electric cars

[@mysterious8152]

Elon Musk 😆

[@markanthonymuldong3922]

Think about the kids they will be our future just make sure they get proper education and we need to save the world that is our job knowledge is power

[@reyzephlyn105]

Gunpla?

[@donovanreimer2324]

Articulate but an almost empty presentation with lousy use of visuals and timing. Ironically someone who want a to think that design is so valuable cannot design a presentation effectively.