Act Now and Make Your Vision Come True: Ayako Takagi

Uamou is a life story made by Ayako Takagi. This little creature has from being a child’s imagination developed into multiple figures and prints that are sold and exhibited around the globe. Find out how Takagi began her Uamou vision and how she made it grow into what it is today. Continue

Making it More Comfortable for Your Clients: Hanging Out in a Sphere Floating Café

BOOLEAN (TOKYO UNIVERSITY TETSUMON CAFE) by TORAFU ARCHITECTS
This is an interior designed project for a café space located at the side of the entrance of Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building in the University of Tokyo. Continue

Presentation that Entertains Rather Than Just Show

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. Continue

The Power of One Shot: Hirano Aichi

Hirano Aichi was inspired to become a photographer at the age of twenty, when he snapped a shot with his father's camera of a Shinto shrine. To him the scenery looked more realistic in the finder shone than it did in reality. Continue

Catching daily life: Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Influential photographer, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, has been interested in photography since his second year in high school, as he began taking photographs of his trips. Continue

Discover New Ideas for Projects: Tomoko Murata

Tomoko Murata was born 1973, in Osaka, Japan. She was impressed by history and the possibilities that are involved in architectural space. Therefore, early in life, she began to study architecure by visiting old and contemporary buildings. Continue

Playing with Perception

Whether you have a website, writing a book or releasing a new product, people will experience your work with a certain impact, a perception, depending on how you approach them. And maybe people won’t receive the experience you thought they would. You need to understand how to create the experience and how it is perceived. Continue

Mexican Pavilion for the Universal Expo Shanghai 2010

The pavilion’s design (designed by SLOT Studio) is born from the idea of representing Mexico through its traditional elements which haven’t been exploited in these kinds of fairs. Continue

2010 Shanghai Expo Hong Kong Pavilion Concept Design

The theme of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo is “Better City, Better Life”, and the special theme for the Hong Kong Pavilion is “Hong Kong - a city with unlimited potential“. Continue

Bering Strait Installation by Pascal Haudressy

Pascal Haudressy one of the famous French artists, has intended to create a bridge between his vision of submarine fauna and the project that OFF Architecture creates in the Bering Strait. Continue

Rie Isono: Be Open, Ideas Come in Daily Life

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. I can change a colorful cloth into small articles and dresses. I think that this is the reason I’m today interested in creating. Continue

Know Your Strength & Focus

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. Continue

Slits Replacing Windows

This house is made "only" by slits, there are no windows. The wall of 105 m lengths with 60 slits surrounding the site realizes the architectural space in this narrow and long site. No other architecture has ever been realized by such a method. Continue

Living a Creative Life: Fumie Shibata

Fumie Shibata is the establisher of Design Studio S. Since Shibata was a kid, she had always loved to draw images and create things. Continue

Architecture Protecting Sky and Light  

The essence of this architecture lies in an inner court. The site is located in Sumizome, Fushimi, Kyoto. It’s a small town with a long and distinguished history, situated south of the Tofukuji temple. Facing to south, the building is built on a gentle slope. Continue

Misshaped Site Re-imagined Geometrically

The project that Sinato faced was to create a home to a family considering of four. The major problem was though how they would build a residence on a misshapen site. Continue

YOYOGI: How to bring modern life into a 80 m2 house in Tokyo

The Yoyogi is a 80 m2 house in Shibuya ward, Tokyo by Front Office Tokyo. The mission with this project was to construct a house that consisted of a rather small area in central Tokyo and then give it a modern look. Continue

Jun Igarashi: Your Vision Gets Shaped with Experience

Have a vision; clearly tell, and express it. – Jun Igarashi. Architect, Jun Igarashi was born year 1970 in Hokkaido, Japan. He quickly in life took interest in architecture as arts had been more of a tradition in his family. Continue

Santo Amaro: How a Residence can be United with Nature

This year, the Isay Weinfeld architecture firm constructed the Santo Amaro residence in São Paulo, Brazil. This deluxe residence consists of a 1275 m2 area and is surrounded with green nature. Nature can't be bypassed in the Santo Amaro residence as the green life is exposed in virtually all corners of the house. Continue

Jeong- Eun Lee: Design requires Heart and Sweat

Young designer, Jeong- Eun Lee, says that design is in her blood. The strong interest for the heritage of crafts became a natural part of Lee’s life as she was brought up by a jewelry designer father and a fashion designer mother. Time and again as she saw self-made jewelry and colorful patterns: her will to adopt a life in design culture nurtured. Continue

Rodrigo Silveira – Get Your Hands Dirty!

Designer Rodrigo Silveria started wood working when he began collage. As he studied industrial design at the Brazilian school FAAP, he was introduced to carpentry. Today he makes money by selling his work. Continue

An Exercise of Faith: Kenneth Nilson on Being a Designer

Designer Kenneth Nilson started his education in design at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. Continue

Milla Rezanova: “For Myself I Have Opened Two Sources of Inspiration”

Milla Rezanova is a Russian designer born in 1978. She's involved with innovative and creative design, that kind of design where experimentation is required. Continue

Bringing You a Great Resource for Branding: 51 Pieces from the Renaissance

Myths and history are great when you're creating an experience for a brand. The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly transformed intellectual life in literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Continue