Mikiji Nagai is a graphic designer and antique collector born in Hyogo. After working as a designer at design agencies, advertising agencies and marketing companies from 1993, Nagai went freelance in 2007. In addition to his work as a graphic designer, he collects, compiles, exhibits and sells antiques he has collected. He is also active in different fields where he uses his career as a collector, rethinking the value of existence of things through “KOBUTSU (individual objects).”