Category Archives: Industrial design

Polaris KDDI iida Concept Model

“Polaris” is a new type of mobile phones, which has a learning function, and shows a “life log” of users. It combines the functions of a mobile phone, robot, and television. The AI(Artificial Intelligence) of a robot can help us … Continue reading

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Winners of Red Dot Design Award 2009

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 … Continue reading

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“Light Pool” by KDDI

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 … Continue reading

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Canon NEOREAL in Milan Design week

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White noise machine by Yuri Suzuki

Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki designed “White noise machine” in Delhi, India. This machine calculates the quantity of street noise and generate the same amount of “white noise”.

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Sori Yanagi exhibition in Yokohama

Legendary Japanese designer Sori Yanagi’s work will be exhibited at Yokohama museum art gallery from July 7th, 2009. Yanagi’s design is well known for its simplicity and functionalism and is considered as one of the most important designers in the … Continue reading

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Architect Sou Fujimoto with Lexus

Lexus has been working with some of the top Japanese creators since they started participating in Milan Design Week. This year they chose architect Sou Fujimoto. The title is “Lexus – L finess Crystallized wind”. It is all made of … Continue reading

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Mobile phones by Yaoi Kusama

Japanese mobile phone manufacturer KDDI and internationally renowned artist Yaoi Kusama collaborated and released a new mobile phone series called “iida”. These are very exclusive models since there are lots of manual works and high-tech involved. Even though these phones … Continue reading

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au design project x YAMAHA

KDDI, one of the largest mobile phone operators in Japan, and YAMAHA collaborated, and exhibited their latest work, which combines a mobile phone and instrument.

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New multi-function mouse by Canon

Canon announced that it will release a new multi-function mouse (mouse/calculator/keypad) in July. It will be available in Japan for 3500 yen or 33 dollars. You can transfer the result of calculation to your computer.

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