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 employers

Passion Projects

Passion Projects

Passion Projects

Community

 Loving Day Founder Ken Tanabe holding a microphone and wearing a Loving Day t-shirt
 Loving Day Founder Ken Tanabe holding a microphone and wearing a Loving Day t-shirt
 Loving Day Founder Ken Tanabe holding a microphone and wearing a Loving Day t-shirt

Founder of Loving Day, a global holiday created as a design-driven social change project.

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.