Ko7 ken okuyama biography
Ken Kiyoyuki Okuyama (奥山 清行, Okuyama Kiyoyuki, born ) is a Japanese industrial designer.!
KEN OKUYAMA (Born - Japan) is an Japanese automobile designer (automotive design / car designs - eyewear design - design studio research & development.
Ken Okuyama
Japanese industrial designer (born 1959)
Ken Kiyoyuki Okuyama (奥山 清行, Okuyama Kiyoyuki, born 1959) is a Japanese industrial designer. He is the owner of the Ken Okuyama Design company.
Okuyama formerly worked for Pininfarina, designing and supervising projects such as the Enzo Ferrari and Ferrari P4/5.[1][2]
Career
Okuyama graduated in 1986 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.[1] For the next three years he was a visiting professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design.
In 1991, he returned to teach part-time at the Art Center College of Design. Between 2000 and 2004, he was Chair of the Transportation Design Department at the college, but in 2004 he was offered a job at Pininfarina.[3]
Okuyama worked for General Motors and Porsche, helping design the new generation of the Porsche 911 (aka 996) as well as the Boxster.[1] Before moving to Pininfarina, he worked for General Motors i