July 2010

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• Industrial design, Product design

  Winners of Red Dot Design Award 2009

  07.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  The red dot design award team submitted us the 2009 winning concepts from Japan.
  Here are the three concepts:

  Designer: Ben Ryuki Miyagi
  Made by folding and gluing layers of industrial felt, Elephant Seating draws conceptual content from many elements of design history. The result is a sofa that is mysterious yet humorous, soft yet dense, and conceptual […]

• Architecture, Art

  Setouchi International Art Festival 2010

  07.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Architect Kazuyo Sejima designed three art galleries for “Setouchi International Art Festival 2010″, where artist Yukinori Yanagi’s work are exhibited.

  “Flower fields with an ‘eye’” designed by kazuyo Sejima

  “The God of the mountain, the electric Hinomaru and the mirror gardens on both sides”
  by Yukinori Yanagi

  designed by Kazuyo Sejima
  -About “Setouchi International Art Festival”
  July 19th - October 31st, […]

• Art

  Wooden flowers by Etsuhiro Suda

  07.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Etsuhiro Suda’s solo exhibition started at gallery Koyanagi in Ginza, Tokyo. At a glance, the space looks totally empty. But if you look at it carefully, you will find 10 small wooden flowers. You can find some flowers easily, but the others are located in rather hidden places.
  Gallery Koyanagi, 1-7-5, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
  TEL: 03-3561-1896

• Industrial design

  “Light Pool” by KDDI

  07.13.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Japanese mobile network provider KDDI has released “Light pool” by collaborating with product designer Hironao Tsuboi and visual artist Masakatsu Takagi.  The phone contains 22 super luminosity LEDs, and that makes it possible to have over 100 patterns of movements of the light.

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