Tomoko Miho was born in Los Angeles in and spent her early days in the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona. She attended the Minneapolis School of Art and the Art Center School in Los Angeles where she earned a degree in industrial design.

She worked at George Nelson Associates, Inc. and later became Creative Director. She worked for Herman Miller furniture and for the Center for Advanced Research in Design in Chicago where clients included Container Corporation of America and Atlantic Richfield. In the 1980s she founded her own studio, Tomoko Miho & Co. Her clients included MoMA, Smithsonian Institution and National Air and Space Museum.

Miho is noted for her architectural posters in New York and Chicago. Today, they are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, and Cooper Hewitt, and were published in design magazines like Novum Gebrauchsgraphik. She was the recipient of the 1993 AIGA Medal.

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