Hisham Kulhanek was born in Prague in 1958. In 1970 he moved to Amsterdam with his family.
After studying at the Delft University of Technology, he decided to move to Milan where he started a long partnership with the Japanese designer Makio Hasuike. Now he runs a multidisciplinary studio focused on product design.
He has been a teacher at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan, and has run some workshops at the Domus Academy and at the Politecnico di Milano for the Master’s degree in Strategic Design.