Kazuya Ito

Kazuya Ito (aka Toi Whakairo) is a Japanese designer and visual artist, based in Vancouver, Canada. Born and raised in Japan, he worked in several design studios in Tokyo as a graphic designer for the music and fashion and sports field. After that, he moved to Toronto, Canada in 2014. He is slowly expanding his skills to apparel design after joined to HAVEN Apparel Inc. Currently, he is a member of the design team and working on an in-line collection, collaboration project and graphic design. As a visual artist, he started playing live visuals in 2010 with a lo-fi video mixer for music scenes such as electronic, beats, hip hop. He performed at SonarSound Tokyo, Low-End Theory Japan, CBC Music, Pride Toronto.