Takeshi Miyakawa is a Japanese architect based in New York since 1989.  He has created  “fractal 23″ drawers recently. Apparently, it has 23 drawers. It is meant to be perfect for “compact living”, but actually to use both sides you need to put this in the center of a room… but still, this is a […]

“Animal Rubber band” is the product that has made “+D” the international design brand. “Animal Rubber Band Dino” is the latest version. This time all the animals are dinosaurs. The function and the material are exactly the same as the previous series.

Triceratops
Size : Approx.70 × 38 mm
Pteranodon
Size : Approx.55 × 30 mm
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Japanese design brand “Metaphys” will release “prol”, which functions as a shelf and a partition at the same time. It has the unique design and probably it will make more sense to use it in the center of a room to divide space than to use it attached to a wall. Each piece likes […]

What is unique about TENORI-ON is not just the way it is played, but also the way it is shown. As you press each key, the backside of the instrument lights up. This is something new in the electronic music scene. Because in the electronic music scene, we always see a musician looking at a […]

TENORI-ON, new musical instrument, will be released in Japan on the 12th of May.

This product was developed by Yamaha and media artist Toshio Iwai.
TENORI-ON’s sound, design, functions are all electronic. There are 16×16 LED keys, and you can play music by pressing them. You don’t need to know any musical knowledge - you can […]

15 established Japanese companies got together in Milan during the design week. Some were interesting - but others were quite boring. My favorite in this exhibition is the new “INFOBAR” designed by Naoto Fukasawa.

Here is the press release of this exhibition:
Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization, the organization involved in the comprehensive promotion of design activities, […]

I saw Takashi Sato’s products at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February this year, and thought that his coat hanger was one of the best at “Greenhouse”, which is equivalent to “Salone Satellite”. His design reminds me of typical Scandinavian design, which is getting quite popular in Japan in the recent years - Simple, clean, and […]

Probably Tetsuo Shibuya is relatively unknown outside Japan, but I guess many people have seen “Tube Door Stopper” which Tetsuo Shibuya designed for Japanese company “h concept”.
Just like “Tube Door Stopper”, all these products that he exhibited at Salone Satellite in Milan are all colorful and playful. See the description below.

COAT HOOK […]

The US based furniture manufacturer launched their first collection during Milan Design Week. Ross Lovegrove’s “Go” and Yvews Behar’s “Fly” are both very interesting products. (see their products here)
Japanese designer Shin Azumi designed “Halo”. they are minimal, and beautiful set of tables.

Description by the producer:
Giving the illusion the table is floating, Halo features a […]

This is my favorite Japanese design at Salone Satelite 2008 in Milan. It uses LED light, and the light indicates the time.
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MILE design project
Design project mile was formed by Bandai Matsuo (acoustic engineer), Kentaro Kai (software engineer) and Kozo Shimoyama (interior designer) while they were still students at the University of Tsukuba. […]