Ken Tanabe is a leader of future facing design teams and projects
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Developed, led, and expanded a new design and innovation team at Visa.
Selected past employers
Community
Ken Tanabe is the Founder of Loving Day, a global holiday he created as a design driven social change project.
It commemorates Loving v. Virginia (1967), the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down laws against interracial marriage. Today, it's the world’s largest multiethnic community observation
Classroom
Award-winning professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City
16
Years of teaching, graduate and undergraduate
8
Subjects taught in design and design management
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Institutions for guest critique: Yale, SVA, Parsons
Collected Speaking
Speaker at 100+ venues on creating change through design with a focus on innovation and community
Costumes
“Halloween hacker” featured in a book and the press
Costume designs have been featured in in a coffee table book alongside fashion icons Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier called Otherworldly: Avant-Garde Fashion and Style – as well as Fast Company Design, Dezeen, and Print.