Takram

Takram is a design and innovation firm bringing together professionals with expertise across hardware, software, services, and brand design. We work alongside changemakers to explore possibilities, shape concepts, and bring them into the world as products, services, and brands. From "Wagashi" to space, from startups to the public sector.

We believe the future is shaped by the accumulation of change. By forming open and collaborative teams with our clients, we seek to create meaningful change and contribute to better futures.

Takram has studios in Tokyo, London, New York, and Shanghai. Each is shaped by its local context, from ways of living and histories of design and craft to emerging technologies and cultures of making. Through ongoing exchange across our studios, we bring diverse perspectives into conversation and explore new forms of value together.

Our expertise:
- Brand Identity & Experiences: distinctive identities, guidelines, and experiences built on research into an organization's values, structure, customers, and business model, often followed by long-term creative direction
- Design Engineering: ideation, design, and prototyping of hardware and software, from R&D and proof of concept to commercialization
- Digital Product Design: websites, mobile applications, large-scale digital services, and design systems for startups, global enterprises, and the public sector
- Industrial Design: products ready for production, from cameras and robotics to everyday objects, stationery, and tableware
- Business Design: new business concepts shaped through interviews, observation, and desk research, supported from strategy through execution
- Cross-Cultural Design: localization of products and brands, and Go Global and Go Asia strategies, drawing on our studios in Japan, the UK, the US, and China