Matano is the director of industrial design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and back in the late '80s, he led the design team that made a splash with the Mazda Miata.

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She married an American she met as a student of graphic design at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, and they were off to New York.

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