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Yanko Design is a web magazine dedicated to introducing the best modern international design, covering from industrial design, concepts, technology, interior design, architecture, exhibition and fashion. It’s about the cutting edge and the classic, the new and the rediscovered. It’s all about the best.

Yanko Design reaches a rapidly expanding audience of approximately 590,000+ unique users, serving 3 million page views each month with 23,000+ total daily newsletter subscribers making it the world’s most popular & influential online design magazine.

Yanko Design is on the list of Technorati.com’s top 100 most read blogs on the internet, currently ranked at 52 (out of 75,000,000+ blogs).

Takashi Yamada
Publisher

Takashi, Publisher of YankoDesign.com, is responsible for bringing the content and vision to Yanko Design. Past businesses decent into fine dining, web-development and retail design. Prior to Yanko Design, Takashi was a consultant in the multibillion dollar luxury industry in Japan. Clients included Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Bulgari and various exclusive groups such as Richemont (Cartier, Alfred Dunhill and Montblanc).

He currently focuses on his passion of modern industrial design and pushes as a “design agency” to promote original ideas and talented undiscovered designers through YankoDesign.com. In five years it has grown amongst the most respected and visited design sites on the web. Takashi was born in Japan and raised in Canada. Currently he spends his time residing both in Japan and Canada.

Jason Hui
Chief Executive Officer

Jason, CEO of YankoDesign.com, is responsible for bringing the vision and strategy of Yanko Design to life. Jason is a business savvy computer science major with seven years experience in project management and development. He has work experience with the world’s largest multi-national corporations in the Financial and Business Intelligence sectors that provide solutions to companies such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq. In his own time, he volunteers at local events and enjoys the great outdoors in the beautiful city of Vancouver.

Long Tran
Chief Editor

Long, Editor of YankoDesign.com, is responsible for all editorial aspects of Yanko Design. He currently Art Directs for an interactive design agency with clients such as Disney, Fox, NBC Universal and Warner Bros. He has his own personal blog where he writes about everything under the sky. His background is in Fashion Design and is currently working on his menswear collection.

Nancy Wang
Chief Strategy Officer

Nancy creates, executes, and sustains strategic initiatives for Yanko Design. She is a Jill-of-all-trades with degrees in computer science, genetics and commerce. In her career, she’s held roles ranging from HIV pharmaceuticals research to solutions development for multinationals such as Dell, Citigroup and IBM. She is also involved in the financial markets, creating models and managing risk for equity investments. Her rare combination of experiences across industries brings fresh perspectives. Nancy loves her coffee, hates decaf, and is a travelling nomad at heart.

Radhika Seth
Executive Assistant

Radhika is a Graduate in Commerce, but her passion for books and writing paved the way for content writing. Starting small with features in college magazines, she gradually worked towards content creation. She has been writing for various blogs and has been on the circuit for almost three years now. Gizmos and Gadgets, Designs, Girl-Gadgets and Luxury Products; she’s covered all these avenues in the past. A keen eye on design and a fascination with concepts brings her to Yanko Design. As a professional writer, she’s got the pulse on the readers’ expectations. However this doesn’t stop her from getting her own opinion across as well.

Chris Burns
Senior Contributing Editor

MCAD graduate Chris Burns is a design journalist and freelance graphic and New Media designer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Chris works and writes for design-conscious organizations locally and abroad, most recently globalization and design education blog Geotypografika and his own global design news site A Tiny City. Chris enjoys tiny collections and observational and participatory design field work on bike and on foot. Chris has visited several cities around the world as a student; London, Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and more, and hopes to be able to continue his global search for great design.

Anthony James
Associate Editor

Working in the New York fashion industry during the first act of his life, Anthony’s love of design began at fashion powerhouse Gucci. Leaving the fashion world for more entertaining ventures, Anthony then went on to art direct for Playboy TV, while at the same time contrasting that by winning a Gold Broadcast Design Award (BDA) for his work with Nickelodeon TV. Since moving to Los Angeles, Anthony co-founded audio technology firm Varitalk.com and has been working as a copywriter and producer in movie marketing for the past seven years.

Ansley Berrones
Associate Editor

Ansley is a writer based in Atlanta Georgia who is currently attending college to obtain a degree in web/graphic design. As a design advocate, Ansley is passionate about the ways that design and creativity can affect daily life, reflect human needs, and inevitably impact the world.

Shane Crozier
Industry Consultant

Australian born industrial designer who graduated from the University of Newcastle’s degree program. He is an advocate for sustainability, functionality, and usability, and is currently involved in both freelance work, and the research and development of products for a more environmentally sustainable heavy industries and transportation sector.

Billy May
Contributing Editor

Billy, a graduate of Washington and Lee Univ. with a BS in business administration, fled his Virginia roots to relocate in New York. Currently acting as a design assistant to a Brooklyn based furniture design studio, he aspires to a lighting and industrial design career with independent and freelance projects. As a designer, he likes anything that goes over the top for pure effect and, incidentally, enjoys photoshopping friends into embarrassing, career ruining situations.

Chad Smith
Architecture Editor

Chad Smith is an architect and writer in New York. He is an award-winning designer. His office, Chad Smith Architect LLC, specializes in collaborations with artists, other architects, fashion designers, and anyone passionate about their projects and their cities. He loves his work, and is skeptical about what he says about it. Tough love begins at home.

Richard Yang
Design Curator

Richard is a product designer currently working on his MA through University of the Arts London. At the moment, his work explores his Hmong heritage within the context of transnational art, identity and nation. Prior to living in London, Richard resided in sunny Los Angeles for 9 years where he obtained an undergraduate degree in biology and a minor in studio arts. Richard is also an avid photographer and is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota.

Brian Ling
Industry Consultant

Brian is a multi-disciplinary industrial design leader that specializes in strategic design language and product realization programs that drive successful brands and businesses. He has collaborated and worked with many multi-national brands such as Motorola, HP, GE, Ericsson/Flextronics, Akai, Sansui, SVA, Hannspree, Nakamichi and Philips. He is an avid blogger and design entrepreneur, that often shares his thoughts at his www.designsojourn.com website. He laments the lack of good Affogatos, Soya Mochas and Italian Pizzas in Asia.

Glen Poss a.k.a. Zippy Flounder
Contributing Editor

Zippy has over 35 years experience as an entrepreneur, product designer and inventor. Along the way he has won multiple awards, launched a whole lot of products and has been granted numerous patents. Zippy is from the old school – marker pens, mock-ups, and prototypes made with CAD or CNC. In the course of his long career he has pretty much done it all from pitching to investors to factory work. The name Zippy Flounder came about from an old BBS game called trade wars.

Phil Baker
Contributing Editor

Phil Baker has been involved in all aspects of product development for more than 30 years. He has extensive experience in partnering with Asian companies and has played key roles in developing products for Apple, Seiko, Polaroid, Atari, Polycom, Proxima, Think Outside and others. He co-founded Think Outside, the company that created the Stowaway folding keyboard. He has a BS physics from WPI, an M.S. engineering from Yale, an MBA. from Northeastern, and holds more than 30 patents. Phil currently consults to companies in the areas of product development, marketing and manufacturing. He writes a weekly personal technology column for the San Diego Transcript and was the San Diego Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Consumer Products. He is the author of the recently published book “From Concept to Consumer”, about turning ideas into money published by The Financial Times Press. He resides in San Diego.