While working with Yamanaka-san I spent my time between two major projects. The first project involved the creation of a report comparing the Japanese and American markets for a project that required me to sign an NDA. Leading Edge was looking for ways to adapt a technology that was popular in United States for Japan use.

For the second half of the internship I worked alongside two other Japanese design students. We worked with wood and foamcore to build "look-like" and "feel-like" models inspired by the sketches of Yamanaka-san. By the end of the internship, the Japanese students had appointed me the role of cutting all the complicated curved geometry into the foamcore because of my steady hand with the x-acto knife.