Tokyo Design Week 07
January 1st, 2008

We should have run this over Christmas, on account of its punny name. Hoe Hoe Hoe! was an installation at Container Ground during Tokyo Designers Week in November. Students of Tama Art University in Tokyo filled their shipping container with a papier mache structure lined with shredded newspaper. More »
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December 30th, 2007

Designer and illustrator Katrin Olina created a mural called Spur for the VIP room at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »
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December 24th, 2007

Designer Ross McBride of Tokyo-based Normal presented a new collection of clocks and watches at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »
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December 19th, 2007

Emmanuelle Moureaux of Tokyo-based Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design has sent new photos of Stick Chair, a prototype she exhibited at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »
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December 5th, 2007

Young Belgian designer Marina Bautier has designed a furniture collection for Tokyo brand Idée. More »
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December 2nd, 2007

Tokyo design week: Conof. is another Japanese brand producing sparse, (mostly) white objects. Here are some of the products they showed at 100% Design Tokyo last month. More »
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December 2nd, 2007

Tokyo design week: Japanese brand Metaphys presented many new products at 100% Design Tokyo last month, including the Cortina electric kettle (above). More »
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November 27th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Patricia Urquiola’s Pear bathroom range was exhibited at 100% Tokyo during Tokyo Design Week. More »
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November 27th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Denim brand G-Star Raw built a pavilion at Tokyo Designer’s Week last month, to display the brand’s new collections. More »
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November 12th, 2007

Tokyo Design Week: Qwerty River is a collection of objects made from reclaimed keyboard keys. The key rings, hair ties and mobile phone straps by Finnish design collective SECCO were shown at Design Tide in Tokyo earlier this month.
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November 8th, 2007

Tokyo Design Week: Nobuhiko Arikawa of Rice-Design showed his Giraffe desk lamp (above) and Kurinoki paper clip holder (bottom) at 100% Design Tokyo last week. More »
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November 8th, 2007

Tokyo Design Week: Here’s a fourth project by Torafu architects. The Kiriko Bottle project aims to revive ancient Japanese craftsmanship by using a glass cutting technique to make subtle alterations to everyday glass tableware.
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November 8th, 2007

Tokyo Design Week: Takehiro Ando’s installations at 100% Design Tokyo consisted of interlocking felt components.
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November 7th, 2007

Tokyo Design Week: Here’s another project by Torafu architects (see previous story). Boolean is the interior for a café space at the University of Tokyo, using punctured wooden surfaces to enclose the space and frame the outside world. More »
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November 7th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Japanese architects Torafu presented images of a house they have designed for Yokohama at the Pecha Kucha x Design Tide event last week. More »
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November 6th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Taiwanese designers 22designstudio presented their Concrete Ring Series at designboom mart tokyo 2007, part of 100% Design Tokyo last week. More »
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November 6th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Miyako Andon, a 127-year-old Japanese lighting company, exhibited new products at 100% Light during 100% Design Tokyo last week. More »
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November 6th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek exhibited work both old and new at design store Cibone last week, during Design Tide and all the other concurrent events. More »
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November 5th, 2007
Tokyo design week: Japanese motion graphics company WOW projected several of their works at design store Cibone during Design Tide last week, including this piece (click on image to play the movie). More »
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November 4th, 2007

Tokyo design week: Japanese design company Rock Paper Scissors has designed a product that acts as both packaging and a display system for fresh flowers. More »
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