sunday newsletter
a designboom.com publication
November 2010, 14
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every sunday we choose a topic from the vaste archive of designboom
today: tokyo designers week 2010 (part 2)
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NPO heartful japan: badges by toyo ito
published 11.12.10
designboom met up with toyo ito at the NPO heartful japan's booth at tokyo designers' week 2010.
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ryuji nakamura: bare room at designtide
published 11.12.10
every year, DESIGNTIDE appoints a promising japanese architect to design its interior.
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yuki yamamoto: reline
published 11.11.10
'reline' series of chairs are derived from mathematical equations which are transformed from originally two-dimentional curves, defined and projected into 3D forming the frame of the chairs.
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naoto fukasawa: CONTAINER - without thought
published 11.11.10
a workshop to design objects that are used naturally and spontaneously: without thought. during tokyo designers week 2010 designboom visited the DMN design exhibition (vol.11).
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shigeki fujishiro knot basket
published 11.11.10
hang it on a wall, use it on the floor as a laundry basket, or even a magazine rack. made entirely with knots, this adhesive-free product is made of 100% polyester and will also make an ideal companion for outdoor adventures.
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maezm: bone x skin
published 11.10.10
constructed from a lightweight wooden frame and solid carbon fiber. the shape of the chair is made from simple lines set as a structural bone supporting an epidermis - the carbon fiber.
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piet hein eek fair trade palmwood series
published 11.10.10
during tokyo designers week 2010, japanese company CIBONE presented an exhibition of works by dutch designer piet hein eek.
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tokyo llove hotel - part 3
published 11.10.10
room installations by joep van lieshout, scholten & baijings, richard hutten; pieke bergmans, hideyuki nakayama, yuko nagayama, jo nagasaka; and ryuji nakamura. design of wallpaper by thonik.
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tokyo llove hotel - part 2
published 11.10.10
based on the japanese phenomenon of the love hotel, this pop up LLove hotel was created by eight japanese and dutch designers with themed rooms that are installations, where people can actually make a reservation and stay over night.
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tokyo llove hotel - part 1
published 11.09.10
based on the japanese phenomenon of the love hotel, this pop up LLove hotel was created by eight japanese and dutch designers with themed rooms that are installations, where people can actually make a reservation and stay over night.
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torafu architects: air vase
published 11.09.10
japanese architecture team torafu presented 'air vase'. you can freely change its shape by molding it into the form of a small bowl or vase according to one's intended 'usage'. the thin and lightweight paper from which it is made, gives strength and resistance to the bowl.
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oscar diaz and yuri suzuki : REC & PLAY pen
published 11.08.10
london-based designers oscar diaz and yuri suzuki have developed the REC & PLAY pen. on magnetic ink lines, the red pen records sound and the black pen plays the recorded sound.
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yuri suzuki: colour chaser 2010
published 11.08.10
we've spotted the colour chaser at designtide tokyo, where london-based product/sound designer yuri suzuki staged an exhibition. the colour chaser detects and follows the black line whilst it reads the coloured lines and translates the RGB data into sound.
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yuri suzuki : barcode book at tokyo designtide
published 11.08.10
at designtide exhibition in tokyo earlier this month, designboom met yuri suzuki who showed a few recent projects: among them - the barcode book. it tells a story through illustrations made with the parallel lines. sound is played using a barcode reader-speaker.
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typeface t-shirts by masashi kawamura + itaru yonenaga
published 11.07.10
in the world of typography, terms such as typeface, character, body etc., are used to describe the form of a letter. the reason why they use these types of expressions is because they are closely related to a human body. this set of t-shirts have been designed to express the silhouette of 5 famous typefaces: helvetica, caslon, baskerville, courier and cooper black.
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leaf letter by neo-green and eding:post
published 11.07.10
in ancient japan, people used leaves as a tool in which to exchange their messages, which is the origin of hagaki - the japanese postcard. 'leaf letter' takes this idea of writing on leaves and brings it into modern times.
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daisuke motogi: sleepy chair
published 11.07.10
'sleepy chair' has a form which looks like a plush duvet folded-up and neatly placed on four wooden legs.
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