Category Archives: Exhibition

Award winning package designs from “Japan Package Design Awards 2011” have been exhibited at Matsuya, a department store in Ginza, Tokyo. The grand prix has been awarded to “Zenkashoin”, a pastry store in Kyoto. Package designs of “Zenkashoin”   Package designs for chewing gums “Fit’s” received “Silver Award”   Package design for Elecom’s headphones also received “Silver Award”

This is the 4th year since Canon participated in the Milan design week. This year they have collaborated with Torafu Architects, and visual design studioWOW. The exhibition has been held at Superstudio in Zona Tortona. ————————— Here is the information from the organizer: “NEOREAL WONDER” creates a world of digital imaging where airiness and revolution coexist. Those who visited the exhibition awake to the possibilities of vision, they are astonished, they feel the dynamism of life, and pursue this expression in which a new relationship is created between people and image. This time, those responsible for creating the works presented as part of “NEOREAL WONDER” are TORAFU ARCHITECTS – a … Continue reading →

Canon is planning to participate in Milano Salone del Mobile (April 12-17,2011) this year again.This year TORAFU ARCHITECTS and WOW are in charge of the exhibition.TORAFU ARCHITECTS will create a cone-shaped large screen in the main space by using nylon lines. The idea is to combine the screen and images and makes us feel that the screen is floating in the air.via: excite/ism

An exhibition by Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA) titled “Romance” started at Tokyo midtown last week. This exhibition took place in Hong Kong last December as part of “Business of Design Week” and attracted over 50,000 visitors.Based on the theme “Romance” , they showed 30 second movies with 30 monitors. Here are some of them.

Shiro Kuramata’s exhibition (Shiro Kuramata 1934–1991) started at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Roppongi, Tokyo this week (until May 8th, 2011). Kuramata is considered one of the most important Japanese designers in the 20th century and has had a great influence on the modern product design. The exhibition shows 65 pieces of Kuramata’s work. 

“More trees”, an organization committed to environmental protection (whose founder is musician Ryuichi Sakamoto) has started an exhibition at the AXIS gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo on October 27th. Designer Koichi Suzuno createded new products named “Building blocks in the kitchen” for the exhibition. Here are some of the images. At AXIS Gallery in Tokyo. Until November 7th. via: excite/ism

  A photo exhibition by Yoshinobu Araki will start at the Leica store in Ginza on September 3rd. The theme of the exhibition is “Ainojikan” or “Time for love”,  and it shows 14 black and white photographs taken by Araki. “I was confident about framing time – instead of space. “Time for love” created by the relationship between a mother and a child or families….my photos are ‘time for love’”, Araki says.