Learning Bright is a design for Toshin Satellite Preparatory School in Kyobashi, Osaka City, Japan. The school wanted a new reception and office including meetings and consultation spaces. This minimalistic design uses material and color complementarity between white and gold to stimulate human senses in various aspects. This school office space is bright as a message to students suggesting a sharp and professional future carrier waiting for them in the future. The golden plates are used in a minimalist and sharp way psychologically enhancing the sense of being precise students mind.

Tetsuya Matsumoto is the founder and Head Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB based in Japan, and a Lecturer of a space design course at Osaka University of Art. After graduating from the same university, he specialized in commercial space design and built a large portfolio of projects varying both in type and scale, from shops and restaurants to offices and clinics, and from a small pharmacy to a large Hospital. Tetsuya has received more than a hundred local and international design awards and became a jury member for several prestigious prizes.

Matsuo Gakuin is a franchisee of the larger Toshin Satellite preparatory schools. These preparatory schools are used by high school’s final year students to prepare for their national university entrance exam. The lessons are standardized for all schools in japan and are prerecorded. Matsuo Gakuin offers accesses to these lessons through its computer equipped classrooms.