Keep Going Regardless of Failure: Hisakazu Shimizu
Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.
Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.
Tokyo based, Tetsutaro Nakabayashi, is a design director and a product designer. In 1988 Nakabayashi graduated from the Kuwasawa Design School, and until 1997, he belonged to the Product Design Division of Masayuki Kurokawa Architect & Associates. After that he has established his own studio, namely Tetsutaro Design.
When I was studying design at Kuwasawa Design School in 1988, I came across the works of Mr. Masayuki Kurokawa: a designer who was working both in the architecture and the product design field. I was strongly attracted by the fascination and the possibility of product design and this encounter became the opportunity to be involved in product design. Read More...
A Design of exhibition and communication campaign of Spain Emotion. The colorful exhibition shows more than 50 products of Spanish design during Tokyo Designer's Week.
NOOK made by South Korean designer Patrick Frey
The NOOK, is VIAL's first item of furniture, this has lead to a great start into the innovative market for the new family-running company. Just a few weeks ago, the stool was rewarded the iF product design award 2010.
Growing up as a child, designer Hironao Tsuboi, explains that he always had a curiosity devoted to discovering the unknown, in particular the mysterious circumstances of the world.
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When the Italian Post-Modern Design was born in the middle of the 1980s, Tokyo born designer Madoka Sato, saw how design could be experienced and explored in many different ways. She became so excited by the fact of how much diversity that was involved in the world of design, that she decided to become a product designer in her own way and opened her eyes to a new world of possibilities. She moved to Milan where she was awarded a master degree in design at the Domus Academy. Madoka started her own design studio with Domenico Ambrosinoio.
Optimus Tactus Keyboard Concept.
The problem in which Art. Lebedev Studio wanted to solve was to make a one sensor display keyboard. The keyboard doesn't have any physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size. Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.
Here's the concept images:
Woo Nam Jai
The urban nature along with this site which is connected with the Woomyeon-mountain and an urban park (as the natural greenery area) is the ideal place for an environment that can satisfy a residential and recreational purpose which is desired by most urban people.
In order to secure the maximum area of the south-facing garden, in the irregular polygonal shaped site, the main building is laid on the northern part of the site along with the irregular boundary line.
Designer Rie Isono grew up in a surrounding where her mother was very good at sewing, and she loved watching her create tones of things. She can change a colorful cloth into small articles and dresses. I think that this is the reason I’m today interested in creating.
I applied for a job which was announced by the university (Musashino Art University). The first assignment was the design of a clock radio that was supposed to be completed in two weeks. After that, I got employed by Sony.
Designer Satoshi Itasaka has redesigned his grandmother's antique chair with the help of new material.
There was an antique chair in Itasaka's grandmother's warehouse. Though, it was an attractive chair with a beautiful silhouette, he says. Satoshi Itasaka saw that it was clear that the chair was becoming too old and nonfunctional as one leg was broken and the backrest is so damaged that it showed a tragic appearance.
However, the chair's facade was still attractive. "I tried to repair the chair in order to manage reusing it."
The SUN clock by designer HironaoTsuboi
“SUN” can feel time. It’s a simple clock which follows the SUN with its 24 hours (starting with sunrise and ending with sundown). The SUN changes its color depending on the time of the day, that is if it’s AM or PM. It can be used as “World Clocks” if more than two clocks are placed on a wall.
Designer Shigeki Fujishiro is the creator of the Eiffel Stool.
A "three-legged stool" is considered most suitable while at work. The reason being the worker can freely move their own legs while sitting. With the concept of "form by means of tools = shape from function",
this stool is designed in a minimal manner so the structure itself becomes form. Material is made from a special paper developed in Europe, that consist of pure pulp and recycled paper. This material is prominent by means of durability, flexibility, weight, pliability, and insulation. Very earth-friendly material as excess during process can be recycled.
In a heartbeat, it feels like, has life run past you with no intention of ever slowing down or letting you catch your breath. Indeed, life is so short we don't even notice that time has passed. The literature on how to make most out of one's life is so extensive that it would take several life times to even read the books printed in one year on the subject. But it's not as complicated as we would like to make it out to be. It's one thing: Your Thing.
"Yawn! Another one of those.."
Nope. Because while your thing is what you enjoy, it will never reach its zenith in potential. Unless, of course, it is done efficiently. The point is doing things efficiently and not meerely doing it. Because just "doing what one enjoys" is done by quite a lot of people who never seem to fully reach as far as they could have, had they known. Simply doing what one enjoys is all fine, but it will be incredible only once it is taken to the next level - and all without ever losing grasp of the genuine plesure that came from doing it.
Fumie Shibata is the establisher of Design Studio S. Since Shibata was a kid, she had always loved to draw images and create things. My inception of design seems to be linked to those days when I enjoyed making clothes for my dolls or picture storybooks stereoscopically. Also, I grew up in a family that owns a textile business with craftsmen. In this creative environment, I felt completely natural to use my mind and create what I felt like creating.
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