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Category: Design, Graphic Tags: Japan, Tokujin Yoshioka, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has published their very first Symbol Mark and Logo designed by Tokujin Yoshioka on November 15th. The cubic architecture of the current museum building, designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1975. Tokujin has designed the symbol mark based on the concept of cube, which connotes “the origin of creation.” The color is [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Events/News, Japan, Valerio Olgiati
In Tokyo Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art will held a solo exhibition of Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati. Elegantly combining daring forms and simple plans, Valerio Olgiati (b. 1958) is now attracting attention not only in Switzerland, his homeland, but also of architects around the world. This show illustrates his view of the world [...]
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Category: Design, Events/News, Technology Tags: Japan, Switzerland, Tokujin Yoshioka, Watch
“Cartier Time Art” Art Direction by Tokujin Yoshioka Held from August 26 to November 6, 2011 at Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Höschgasse 3 8008 Zurich, Switzerland The brilliant innovations of technology and aesthetics for Cartier timepieces will be on display in an traveling international exhibition directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, titled [...]
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Category: Design, Industrial, Lighting Tags: Japan, Pendant light, Portugal, SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN
SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN will present their latest minimal creations at Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2011 during 1-3 June. SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN was founded in 2004 by two designers: Alzira Peixoto and Carlos Mendonça. Design, innovation, functionality and quality are the driving concepts in the creation and development of every new collection and every new product. In SIMPLEFORMSDESIGN past and future, [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: Japan, Modern Chair, Tokujin Yoshioka
Designed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka, TWILIGHT is a project installed in MOROSO Showroom during Milan design week, it was to display new chair series “MOON“. “MOON” is a chair inspired by the beauty of the moon, its glowing light and shadows. The chairs express the full moon when seen from above; the half moon [...]
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Category: Design, Fashion Tags: Japan, Tokujin Yoshioka, Watch
Tokujin Yoshioka has designed a new watch “O” Shape of Water – Transparent Time. Produced by ISSEY MIYAKE and developed by Seiko Instruments Inc., “O” was launched at the Basel World in Switzerland in March of 2011 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the ISSEY MIYAKE watch project. “O” has a meaning as “water” [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Takeshi Hamada
Takeshi Hamada has completed the interior design “Office A“. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Interior design, Adaptable Office This is a law office planned in the first floor in social building, located in the suburb of Osaka. The concept of this plan is “Adaptable Office”. There are a lot of situations, and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Lattice screen, Timber
Japanese architect Takeshi Hamada has completed the House D in Osaka, JAPAN. + Project description by Takeshi Hamada Key word Narrow Housing,, Young Owner Background and Environmental Atmosphere The housing is located in the place from one block from the main street in Osaka’s suburb, and I cannot say it’s a calm. There are a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Random pattern, Stair, White, yHa
Japanese architectural firm yHa architects has recently completed the YNH house located in Tokyo, Japan. The facade has “autonomously” opening system grid-like continuous pattern and its size are “heteronomously” translated in relation to views or surrounding environment or interior function. yujin HIRASE, founder of yHa architects + Project description by yHa architects I thought mainly [...]
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Category: Interior Tags: Bar Lounge, Japan, Restaurant, Stair, Terminal01
Terminal01 has designed the Dojima River Forum CAFE located in Osaka Japan. + Design statemetn by Terminal01 The cafe is situated on the second floor of the recently opened Dojima River Forum in Osaka Japan. Osaka city used to be called a water-capital. Rivers and canals once crisscrossed the city. There is a big solid [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Japan, Japanese architecture, Terminal01, Timber
Japanese studio Terminal01 has completed a house in Kitasaya located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. “void” was placed at the center of the house, which is the main space of the house. This space is open up to the sky…family can feel the cycle of the seasons, weather, light, and so on, through this void space, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Japan, Japanese architecture, Landscape architecture, Minimalism, Stair, Takashi Yamaguchi, White
Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has designed a house in Ise, Japan. The building is composed of two volumes arranged in parallel. A vertical void links the rooftop terrace and the light court on the first floor, drawing nature into the interior. Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates + Project description by Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates [...]
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