New York: Wanted Design – Tokyo Design
Week 2015. Tokyo
Design Week is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and has developed
into an international design event that gathers excellent architecture,
interior, product design, graphic design and art from all over the world. Tokyo
Design Week in New York at the Wanted Design exhibition space (Terminal Store)
expressed the constant jumbling of nowadays Tokyo
through a mixture of, Kawaii (Japanese Cute) and Cool; Creative and Technology,
in both Edo and Contemporary Tokyo.
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Amezaiku – Shinri Tezuka. Amezaiku is a traditional Japanese candy
craft that can be traced back to the late 700s. Since the Edo era, Amezaiku
have been popular to the common people as a spectacle. “By Twisting, cutting and pulling melted
candy, we create edible figures of creatures that seem alive, flowers and even
artificial things if you want. We shape candy by using only U-shaped scissors
and bare hands. Amezaiku is different from sculpture, and we neither cut a
candy off nor shave it. In olden times, the candy was valuable, so they were
not able to waste it."
Tokyo Design Week 2015 –
Amezaiku – Shinri Tezuka is Asakusa Amezaiku Ameshin president and is Japan’s
leading candy craftsman
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Amezaiku – Shinri Tezuka
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Twotone – Sens. The
Intellectual board game as an interior art. Pray for the world without
confliction between black and white.
Nobody can get away from their darkness of mind. Infinite possibilities
(colors) between black and white.
Above. Jungo
Kanayama of TNZO Inc, who produces the game.
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Stepup Chair – Masuo Fujimura.
The Stepup Chair isn’t just a high-backed chair, it’s a piece of
furniture that can also be used as a bookshelf step-ladder. It can be used for hanging clothes or in and
other creative ways. A beautiful work of
art that serves multiple functions.
Above. Designer, Masuo Fujimura.
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Pages – Niriko Hashida Design. This chair can change colors by
turning the seat like a book. It is also
easy to adjust the height of the seat.
Above. Niriko
Hashida.
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – JoT – Henka Inc. What is JoT? JoT is the next to IoT (Internet of Things), and stands for
the Jabber of Things. “Today, there are many ways of communication between
human beings. On the other hand, how about communication between humans and
objects? JoT helps you to communicate with objects. When you attached JoT on a
object, you can hear their own voices (sounds).
We believe if your object starts to talk to you, your relationship with
object will be changed." Naoya Udagawa CEO of Henka Inc.
Tokyo Design
Week 2015 – Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition. 2014 marked the 200th anniversary
of the Edo Period Ukiyoe Artist Katsushika Hokusai. In New York five
creators showed their Mango inspired works.
Tokyo Design Week 2015 –
Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition
Kenjiro Sano – Hokusai_Line
“I captured the structure
of Hokusai’s drawings by tracing its forms in simple lines”.
Kenjiro Sano art director
and founder of Mr_Design Inc.
Tokyo Design Week 2015 –
Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition
Kaoru Kasai – The Octopus
Likes the Squid, the Squid Dislikes the Octopus
“ Octopuses and squids
seem to be similar, and yet seem to be different…This picture represents their
emotions, drawn in a style reminiscent of Hokusai.”
Kaoru Kasai art director
and designer
