Founder of NOSIGNER, Eisuke Tachikawa is a design strategist working to solve social issues that impact our future, such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, renewable energy, circular economy, disaster prevention, and regional revitalization. He continues to transform challenges into hope through the power of design. Recipient of over 150 design awards, including the world’s first Design for Asia Awards(DFA) Designer of the Year, DFA Grand Prize, Good Design Award Gold Prize, Global Design Award Gold Prize, Golden Pin Award Grand Prix, and German Design Award Gold Prize, earning international acclaim. He has served as a judge for prestigious international competitions such as the ACC Award Design Division, Good Design Award, Design for Asia Awards (DFA), and World Architecture Festival (WAF), remaining deeply engaged in the global creative scene. Tachikawa is the founder of visionary projects such as ADAPTMENT, an innovative urban adaptation strategy designed for coexistence with ecosystems amid climate change, and OLIVE, an open-design platform dedicated to communities affected by disasters. He also led the world’s largest-scale disaster prevention initiative, the Tokyo Disaster Prevention, demonstrating that design is not merely the pursuit of beauty but a powerful force for protecting lives and advancing society. As an educator in creativity, Tachikawa is a proponent of “Evolutional Creativity,” a methodology he devised that was inspired by biological evolution and that now nurtures change-makers across industry, academia, and government. Serving as a Project Professor at Keio University and an Honorary Visiting Professor at Kanazawa College of Art, he has further contributed to the innovation efforts of over 60 companies. His book, Evolutional Creativity, became the first design-focused work to win the prestigious Shichihei Yamamoto Prize, one of Japan’s leading awards in the humanities, and earned him the Ganesa Widya Jasa Adiutama, the highest academic honor awarded by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). He has also chaired the Benesse Educational Research Institute’s “Future of Higher Education” committee, actively promoting creative education. In 2015, Tachikawa served as Concept Director (Chair) of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Cool Japan Movement Promotion Council. From 2021 to 2025, he served two terms as the youngest-ever President of JIDA (Japan Industrial Designers’ Association), Asia’s oldest design organization—leading the first Japan-hosted World Design Assembly Tokyo 2023 in 34 years, and rebranding the Japan Design Organizations Council (formerly D8) as DOO. Since 2023, he has served as a board member of the UN advisory body WDO (World Design Organization) and as Concept Creator for the Japan Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai, continuing to drive the social implementation of design and innovation.