Still Life
Grass Vase
Discovered by "Still Life", a store known for the selection of fresh design products from all around the world such as Denmark, Finland, Austria, is "Grass Vase", a work of a Danish designer Claydies. Display flowers in this "grass" motief vase, and it makes the flowers look like they are blooming in the fields.
URL: http://wonder-travelling.com/Stilllife/Stilllife.htm/
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ON ZA LINE
Lamp Shade
Lamp Shade is the examples of their classically designed modern products. "ON ZA LINE" (Kiyomi Kodama and Ai Kurahashi) makes jewelry, tablewear, interior accessory etc using ceramics. All products are handcrafted and limited to 50 pieces per model.
URL: http://onzaline.com/
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LFS
pin frame
The interspace decorator "Live For Sweets" started his original product brand "LFS".A pushpin+photo frame=pin frame that becomes a playful interior as pinning the photograph directly on the wall and frame only one part.
URL: http://www.liveforsweets.com/
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Knot
CUP-RING
"Knot" has just established in April 2006, and currently in the works with designers in order to plan and produce new design products. "CUP-RING" is a mug cup with a handle that appears like a ring when held with a hand.
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mokely
mokely yarn collection
"Mokely" is a knit product brand created by a graphic designer Tomoko Toki. With unique ideas and colouring, these items are all hand-knitted. She sometimes knits as a performance with music. Her knitting yarn collection is available for sale during this event. These pop and colorful yarn balls can also be displayed as an onjet d'art.
URL: http://www.clover.co.jp/
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NOOKA
A wrist watch brand "NOOKA", launched by an artist/designer Matthew Waldman, shows time using lines and dots in innovative ways. Their products are sold at places like MoMA shop. Their watches that indicate time in scales have a face almost like a puzzle. Sure to make it more fun to check the time.
URL: http://www.nookawatch.com/noo_models.html/
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BACH
WERK
"BACH" has directed book selections at various bookstores, and has been actively involved in a wide range of fields that have anything to do with books. Their current recommended item is "WERK", (Theseus Chan) a graphic magazine, which has been challenging the limitation of paper. Its superb quality is impressesive even to the professionals.
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sockmates
sockmates
Remind you of your childhood when you couldn't sleep with out them -these nostalgic and sweet stuffed- toys are works of a Hamburg based designer Nicole Noack. Maybe it is because they are made of familiar material "socks", that we feel attached to them. They are all handmade, so each piece has its own unique character. Introduced first time in Japan.
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giraffe
"giraffe" is a new brand that specialises in ties. All these ties in wide range of colours, patterns, materials and shapes are arranged in order of body temperature from 34℃ to 40℃, from left to right. All the products are made under the concept "don't get sombody else to tie your neck. do that yourself, hold your neck high, and have a wider vision".
URL: http://www.giraffe-tie.com/
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Katachi/no quiet
hook bag
"Take all the pockets on the inside and stick them on the outside" was the initial idea to design this highly functional bag. Using press-studs, these pockets in different sizes and colors can be rearranged any way you want. It is a product of a private brand "no quiet" run by Kunikazu Hoshiba's graphic and product design company "Katachi".
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HARVEST by haroshi
brooch
A jewelry maker and also a skater, Hiroshi Ito creates accessories for "HARVEST" using broken or old skateboard decks. This cute brooch with a flower and a heart is also made from a deck. These are the art of skateboards beyond skating.
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HEIDU norway
asono mica
A MP3 player called "asono mica" designed by a Norwegian design team called "Norwaysays" who also design furnitures. It has features of quality Nordic design, top functionality, as well as user-friendly operationality. It can be hung from neck like a necklace. Winner of 2005 Norway Good Design Award.
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b4d
CD・DVD FILE/calender
Beyond the field of design, "b4d" seeks for a common ground of various other fields. They set "space" as their main theme, and seek for creative possibilities of objects and matters. CD・DVD file (above), a winner of 2005 Good Design Award, and calendar (below) are made of recycled materials and are also environmentally friendly.
URL: http://www.b4d.info/
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col*or
T-shirts Customize by col*or
Col*or are ro*(Rodja Galli,1979/artist), and Colin Schaelli (1980/industrial designer). Both are working in Switzerland and are doing spontaneous, crazy things with no budget. To their beauty farm on DesignTide in Tokyo 2006, people can come over, choose or bring a t-shirt and the two custom doctors will nice up the stuff live and individually. Right in front of the public.
URL: http://www.col-or.com/
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himie+kuranari
9 memori ring
An accessory designer himie and a copy-writer/CM planner Hidetoshi Kuranari are the design unit "himie+kuranari" who set "quiet opinion" as their theme. This simple but bold item which seems like a some kind of product with scales is actually a ring. 9 marks of scales are adding nice accent to the piece.
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Emiko Oki
Trophy Tableware
This object created by a London based designer Emiko Oki appears like a trophy, but it's actually tablewears. If you disassemble it into individual pieces, it consists of many items such as plates, soup cup, and a tea pot. It is something that could be displayed as an interrior accessory rather than stored in a cupboard. A special version will be exhibited at DesignTide in Tokyo 2006.
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Misao Noya
paperweight
The designer Misao Noya's production is based on the idea of "HAPPY." She's skilled at using neutral colours, animal or nature motifs, and creates an atmospheric and luminous world of her own. Her paper weight piece is almost like a slice of our daily life scene, and it shows her gentle way of perceiving life.
URL: http://www.misaonoya.com/
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Noto-Fusai
t-shirt "Shikisai"
"Shikisai" is a T-shirt brand launched by a designer duo Noto-Fusai that explores the possibilities of T-shirt design using only white T-shirts and black prints. They use familiar motifs such as blind curtains, plugs and sneakers, and giving pleasant surprises to those who wear them or see them worn.
URL: http://www.shi-ki-sa-i.com/
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ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS
Flower vase/Clock
The world is full of stuff, but we have unwittingly forgotten the joy of discovering or possessing stuff. So they have freed themselves from all the "should be"s and "suppesed to be"s, and started to create stuff all over again. A vase in the shape of a flower vase is the good examples of their works.
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TOKOLO.com
PPP magnet
Asao Tokolo focuses on creating patterns in the fields of art, architecture, design. He has worked on the projects theme "to connect." This magnet which seems like pieces of a puzzle is the outcome of his attempt to create a new Japanese arabesque pattern.
URL: http://www.tokolo.com/
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