Founder' Profiles

Shigenobu Kobayashi

■ Abbreviated biography
1925 Born in Ehime prefecture.
1947 Graduated from Hiroshima Higher Technical School, Electrical Engineering Department.
1954 Earned Master of Arts degree from Waseda University Graduate School (major in psychology).
1967 Founded Nippon Color & Design Research Institute.
Focused on research and writing mainly on color psychology and modeling psychology from interdisciplinary perspective, serving as president of the Institute. Former lecturer at Musashi Institute of Technology Graduate School.
2005 Became chairman
Aug. 2006 Appointed honorary chairman.
May 9th, 2010, passed away. (Age 85 years old)