March 2010

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• Product design

  VERTU with Kazumi Murose

  03.30.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Kazumi Murose is called “Ningen Kokuho” in Japan. It means “Living national treasure”. This status has been giving to masters in different fields, who have extraordinary techniques. He is a master of “Shitsugei” or Japanese  lacquer art.
  Vertu is a British based manufacturer and retailer of luxury mobile phone, and they have created 4 types of […]

• Product design

  KENZO POWER by Kenya Hara

  03.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Fashion Brand Kenzo’s cosmetic line “KENZO POWER” will release “COLOGNE” on the 1st of April.  “KENZO POWER”’s metalic and cool design has been expressed with it’s transparent bottle this time.

  Via: excite.co.jp

• Product design

  Wrist Watches by Naoto Fukasawa

  03.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Naoto Fukasawa has designed “Wrist watches” for “plus minus design”, where he works as a creative director.  The new watches looks very simple at a glance, but of course there is something different about these watches.
  What is different about these wathes is the fact that you can change the band as you feel like. Normally, […]

• Art, Exhibition

  Art Brut Japonais

  03.09.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “Art Brut Japonais” exhibition will start on March 24th (until January 2nd 2011) at La halle saint pierre museum in Paris. 63 Japanese pop artists will exhibit their work. Part of the exhibition will be shown at Spirit Art Museum.

• Product design

  Fire pot stand by NIMI

  03.03.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  By putting a pot on “Fire pot stand”, it would look like a pot on fire. This product was designed by NIMI (Takuya Nimi, and Yuki Nimi).  They say that they saw “the close connection” between a pot and fire, and thought that it would be a good idea to develop “fire shaped pot stand”. […]

• Architecture

  Tokinokura Lavatories Shimodate by Shuichiro Yoshida Architects

  03.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

    Shuichiro Yoshida Architects designed a toilet space in Chikusei, Japan.

  Here is the press release by the architect office.
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  Tokinokura lavatories Shimodate
  The project is located in Chikusei City in Ibaraki Prefecture, approximately 60km north-east from Tokyo in Japan. In this region, there are historical storage buildings of stone since early 20th century, although the most of […]

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