DesignTide in Tokyo 2007

In accordance with this year's theme "PLAY=COMMUNICATION," 26 groups of progressive artists and designers from around the world will each be designing a letter of the alphabet.
Alphabet Project will be utilized as a communication tool, and also made into a series of official goods.
DesignTide's alphabet goods are now available on our official online shop! Click here for details >

supported by Nike

26 types of T-shirts, each with a letter of the Alphabet Project printed on the surface. Visitors can form messages by wearing these T-shirts to connect and make words. It is a new communication tool that is born from design.

åbäke

BACH

Yuji Tokuda

ASYL

Enlightenment

KEIICHIRO OSHIMA

Glmn®

WATARU KOMACHI

namaiki

TSUYOSHI KUSANO

3MIN. GRAPHIC ASSOCIATES

groovisions

Martí Guixé

Donny Grafiks (Kazuhisa Yamamoto)

CHIE MORIMOTO (goen)

Paul Davis

Noriko Ashino (a piece of design)

ALEX RICH

Kashiwa Sato

Dainippon Type Organization

Arata Maruyama

Silas Hickey

Matsumoto Gento

toru morooka (more rock art all)

Issay Kitagawa (GRAPH)

HIROSHI IGUCHI

supported by MONTALE

During the period of DesignTide, we will be handing out 26 types of alphabet badges, one for each letter, at each of the extension sites.
There will be 53 locations, each with its own type of badge. Collect different badges at different locations to form your own messages.

Some of them will be sold at the official shop at the main site
Price: 200 yen each (incl. tax)

supported by PANTONE®

A roll of tape that has the letters of the Alphabet Project printed on the surface. You can use it for your usual packing, but you can also cut it up letter by letter to form words. At this year's extension sites, this tape will be used for signage. Look out for them at each of the sites.

These will be sold at the official shop at the main site Price for A-Z set: 1,500 yen (incl. tax)

supported by J-WAVE

The official bag, co-produced by DesignTide and J-Wave, will be made of a material that was developed to protect things like architecture and fruit. This bag will be given for free to the first 10,000 visitors to buy tickets at the main site. We hope that these eco-bags will be able to support the environment in tangible ways.

Designed by REAL PRODUCE

The phrase "Give me a hug!!," printed onto the official bag, is the motto of HUG PROGRAM, a small social contribution that anyone can take part in.

HUG PROGRAM
HYPERLINK www.realproduce.jp

The bags will be handed out to people buying tickets at the main site.

The message of design will change the world!
A book containing the collection of work from DesignTide held all around Tokyo's cosmopolitan areas November 2005 is now available!
The hopes and messages of the participating designers, transcripts of their interviews and of course, plenty of photographs of their work have all been presented with a cutting-edge layout and comments from famous creators in different fields.
This bilingual book will bring the message of the Tokyo design scene to the world. DesignTide will make new connections between people and design by putting everything from the event into the book!

DesignTide A Message from Tokyo
Title: "DesignTide A Message from Tokyo"
Price: 2,625yen(2,500yen+TAX)
Size: 297 X 225mm
Colour: Full Colour
Pages: 132
Distribution: BNN,Inc.
ISBN4-86100-391-1

If you wish to have some of these goods , Click here for details >