Akiyo Tani is a creative director and brand operator based in California, raised between Shanghai and Tokyo.
Her work is worldbuilding for technical ideas: the narrative, the visual language, and the culture a product lives inside. Raised across the Pacific, she brings her own lens to how American technology reaches the world.
In her free time, she loves shooting on her Contax G2, Ricoh GR3x HDF and Sony FX3.
Favorite media
- Blossoms Shanghai · Wong Kar-wai
- Azabudai Hills · Pelli Clarke & Partners
- Hit 'Em, MEOVV · Christian Haahs
- Project Vend · Anthropic
- I'm Not Remarkable · Apple
- Cool With You, NewJeans · Min Hee Jin
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction · Walter Benjamin
- NO LABELS: PART 1 · Taejong Song
- Rip the Script · Nike
- Momofuku: A Cookbook · David Chang
Select writing
- g(u)ilt · Substack
- shinrinyoku · Substack
- eighteen · Substack
- shokunin · X
- juminocore · X
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