Born and raised in Los Angeles, I spent summers visiting relatives in Japan and the differences in American and Japanese lifestyles and conveniences stimulated my interest in design. To expand my scope, I studied Danish design in Copenhagen in 2011 and developed my enthusiasm for 'the everyday' in interior design, product design, urban planning, and community development. My degree in "International Literary & Visual Studies" at Tufts University allowed me to explore the U.S., Japan, and Denmark through the frame of design and cultural studies and to complete a thesis on "timelessness" in Japanese and Danish design.
experience
J.H. Snyder Company
Interior Design & Creative Consultant
December 2017 ~
SIMPLICITY Co. Ltd.
Branding & Graphic Design
August 2014 - March 2018
CURADEN AG
Brand Identity Japan Representative
August 2014 ~
HOTEL JAPAN
Writer, Products
May 2014 - March 2015
Just Another Agency Inc.
Design & Branding Manager
June 2014 - October 2014
Empire Entertainment Japan
Assistant Producer
June 2013 - May 2014
Park Hyatt Tokyo - New York Bar & Grill
Receptionist
January 2013 - June 2013
TOMODACHI Initiative (U.S. Embassy in Tokyo)
Branding & UI Design
August 2012 - January 2013
Designed From the Heart (Beit T'Shuvah Rehabilitation Center)
Personal Design Assistant
May 2012 - July 2012
Tufts Observer
Production Designer (December 2011 - May 2012)
Photography Director (September 2010 - December 2011)
Contributing Writer (2008 - 2009)
Tufts Experimental College
Instructor for two semester-long courses (and student advisor):
1/ Identity & Culture in America (Fall 2010)
2/ Food in Film (Fall 2011)
Eleven Arts Film
Script Translator
May 2010 - July 2010
The Jerde Partnership
Sustainability Researcher
2006 - 2007
inspiration, etc.
Jacques Lacan - The Mirror Stage
Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man
Walker Percy - The Loss of the Creature
Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation
Julia Kristeva - Powers of Horror
Paul de Man - The Concept of Irony
John Berger - Ways of Seeing
Roland Barthes - The Pleasure of the Text
Kenya Hara - White; Designing Design
Naoto Fukasawa / Jasper Morrison - Super Normal
Carlo Scarpa
John Pawson
Steve Chase
Javier Senosiain
Arne Jacobsen
Jan Gehl
Piet Hein
Mira Schendel
Eduardo Chillida
Benoist Van Borren
Victor Pasmore
Lee Ufan
Cesare Arduini
Takeo Yamaguchi
Isamu Noguchi
Jean Arp
Pierre Soulages
Leonardo Vandal
Domingos Tótora
Michael Venezia
Slim Aarons
Martin Parr
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Port of Notes
Quiet Village
Calm
中島 キャサリン 美友紀（ナカジマ キャサリン ミユキ）
2017 - present LOS ANGELES 2012 - 2017 TOKYO 2011 COPENHAGEN 2008 - 2012 BOSTON 1990 - 2008 LOS ANGELES