Ken Tanabe is a leader of future facing design teams and projects

Ken Tanabe
Ken Tanabe
Ken Tanabe

Professional Practice

Professional Practice

Professional Practice

Highlight

Developed, led, and expanded a new design and innovation team at Visa.

Selected past employers

Passion Projects

Passion Projects

Passion Projects

Community

Ken Tanabe, Loving Day
Ken Tanabe, Loving Day
Ken Tanabe, Loving Day

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

3

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

Playful Pursuits

Playful Pursuits

Playful Pursuits

Costumes

Ken Tanabe Halloween
Ken Tanabe Halloween
Ken Tanabe Halloween

“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.