March 2008
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Architecture
Kait-Kobo designed by Junya Ishigami
Japanese architect Junya Ishigami already has an impressive career for his age (33 years old). After working at Kazuyo Sejima & Associates between 2000 - 2004, he established his own company. He works as a product designer, too, and his products “low chair” and ” round table” were acquired by Pompidou center in […]
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Architecture
A barbershop in Tokyo renovated by HIROSHI KIKUCHI
Architect Hiroshi Kikuchi has studied under Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. This is one of his latest projects. Basically, this project is to turn an old Japanese house into a barbershop. He arranged the interior of the building. You can see his other projects here
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Product design
Naoto Fukasawa for Lamy
Naoto Fukasawa designed pens for Lamy, the german stationery company. This series is named “Lamy note”. According to the website, “the name stands for the reduction of rom to the absolutely essential. The ‘Lamy note’ is a ballpoint pen whose design is resticted to the absolutely essential functions and good writing”
Naoto Fukasawa often says that […] -
Architecture
Ryuo station designed by Tadao Ando
The construction of Ryuo station in Kai city, Yamanashi, Japan, designed by Tadao Ando has been completed, and they had the opening ceremony on the 23rd. The station has two floors. The length is 120m, and the width is 6m. You can see Mt. Fuji from the building. This station’s shape is inspired by “cramp” […]
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Product design
Magnet Tack by 100%
“100%” is a design studio established in 2005 in Japan, and their products have been getting lots of attention internationally. They have many interesting products but my favorite is “Magnet Tack”. This is not a normal thumb tack - you can of course use it as a normal thumb tack, but at the same time, […]
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Product design
Dog license plate by Naoto Fukasawa
Setagaya-ku, one of the wards of Tokyo decided to change the design of license plates for dogs.
Although according to the law, everyone is obliged to put a license plate on dog’ collar, it is actually rare to see dogs wearing a license plate, and sadly all the dogs that are lost and not wearing […] -
Exhibition, Product design
Cabbage Chair by Nendo
Nendo will exhibit “Cabbage Chair” at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo from March 30th to the 6th of July. It is created from a cylinder of pleated paper. Nendo just slit this by-product paper vertically and created “Cabbage Chair”. This product was created for XXIst Century Man exhibition curated by Issey Miyake. Nendo’s chair will […]
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Architecture
First peek of Toyo Ito’s design for a new Berkeley Art Museum
Toyo Ito’s design for Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is partially unvailed. This is apprently his first project in the US. Only one image is available and it is hard to say what it would be like…but here is the description in the press release:
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Design renderings show a rectangular building with an […] -
Product design
Butterfly Sticky Note by D-bros
This is not a new product in Japan, but outside Japan almost nobody knows about this product.
It is a sticky note produced by a company D-bros, designed by Ryosuke Uehara. A sticky note was originally from the US in the 80s - everyone knows “post-it”. Nowadays, you see sticky notes at any offices around […] -
Industrial design
Softbank releases new 3g mobile phone series
Japanese mobile phone service provider Softbank will release new 3g mobile phone series “The premium texture 823sh” on March 28th. You can change the back panel of the mobile phone. It comes with 2.6 inch wide QVGA (240 x 400 dots), and 2Mb pixel camera. It works with 3G high-speed, Bluetooth, but does not work […]
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