Ai Kikuchi

Ai Kikuchi was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. She is the founder of CLAY. She spent her childhood to high school graduation absorbing the values of various places, including an industrial area in Shizuoka Prefecture, a snowy village in Nagano Prefecture, a World Heritage town in Wakayama Prefecture, a medieval architecture town in Ireland, and the center of Tokyo. She graduated from the Department of Art of the Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College. After studying abroad at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, she graduated from the Science of Design Department at Musashino Art University. Later, she studied under Miyuki Tamai, a CMF designer at FEEL GOOD CREATION. After gaining experience in PR, production, and direction at Mill Design, a design company that also handles PR/production, she went independent. Today, she’s based in Dubai and Tokyo and utilizes her global network to do various work, including PR/planning in the art and design fields.