Driving Forward

Re-Envisioning Transportation Signage - An Open Design Competition

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Maurice Kanbar Program in Environmental and Transportation Graphics

Jury

Masamichi Udagawa
Partner
Antenna Design

Masamichi Udagawa is a partner at Antenna Design New York Inc. which he co-founded with Sigi Moeslinger in 1997. Antenna’s mission is to make the experience of objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. Antenna’s projects range from public to commercial, from applied to exploratory. Among Antenna’s best known projects are the design of New York City subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks, Bloomberg displays and interactive environments, such as Power Flower, an installation in the windows of Bloomingadale’s activated by passersby. Antenna’s user-centered design approach helps understand human behavior, which is particularly important when designing the unfamiliar, elicited by new technology. Antenna’s work has won numerous awards, including recognition from I.D., Business Week, and Wired magazines. In 2003 Masamichi and Sigi were finalists for the National Design Award in Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.