100%-Hironao Tsuboi
He was born in Tokyo, 1980 and rought up in Shizuoka. He graduated from the Tama Art University, Environmental Design department in 2004 .Established Hironao Tsuboi Design in 2006 . Right now, he is active in and out of home mainly in daily household
products, furni ture and products
while working as an art director and designer for 100%.
http://www.100per.com/
Akihiro Kumagaya
Born in 1984 . He is actively based in Tokyo. He creates designs products,special design, corporate identity, the client work of the graphic design. He received many awards such as the Kobe Biennale spacial award from the board and DDA promotion award.
http://ak.alekole.jp
Arabeschi di Latte
They got together in 2001 . They carry out many projects that include many diggerent fields based mainly on the fascination of food. They are a group of 5 female designers. They are active based in Florence, Italy.
http://www.arabeschidilatte.org
Australia 'indesign'
It is a group exhibition by designers who are leading Australian design. Each designer adopts work that best describes them and they exhibit their original concepts by installation.
http://www.adamgoodrum.com
central line studio
Hiroki Sakai and Satoshi Hasegawa formed a design studio in 2006.Central Line Co., Ltd was established in 2008 ." A design is a measure for happiness."They are vigourously working in various fields under the said idea.
http://central-line.net
Chris Kirby
He is a Canadian industrial desigener who is based in Tokyo. He creates really unique works by tapping disorder,and unpredictability. In addition to the product design, he also produces goods collections.©Max Hodges
http://www.chriskirbydesign.com
CIBONE COLLECTION with TAF
Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Stahlbom have run their Swedish architectural and design studio since 2002.They aim to turn ordinary daily life into something extraordinary by detailed and efficient appearances and functions of products and buildings.
http://www.cibone.com
CRITIBA-Kazunaga Sakashita
Born in Fukuoka, 1976. He established CRITIBA in 2006 .The process and background of product making and the story brought by the background form his concept for design. He aims for simple but deep designs.
http://www.critiba.com
DMY Berlin
A platform based in Berlin, Germany that promotes international exchange in design. The annual DMY International Design Festival showcases inspirational and experimental design.
http://www.dmy-berlin.com
d o (darren onyskiw) + soft-geometry
d o (darren onyskiw) : an artist and a self-taught architect. From Canada, he is active in Vancouver and Tokyo. soft-geometry:a think-tank for planning and realizing architecture and design projects through collaborations with the artist and design associates living and working in Japan.
Emmanuelle Moureaux
Born in France, 1971. She has been living in Tokyo since 1996. She established Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design. She designs a wide range of buildings such as stores
and offices by using her technique of colour scheming and handling colours as space makers.
http://www.emmanuelle.jp
enamel.
They are a design unit by Ryoji and Sayuri Ishioka. They mainly do graphic design, art direction, web and package design. They are vigourously active in many fields such as fashion and interiors.
Portrait&work:©Daisuke Ishizaka
http://www.enamel.co.jp
FAMO DESIGN WORKS-Toshitsugu Fujiwara
Born in Kurashiki, Okayama, 1972 . He established FAMO DESIGN WORKS. He plans design for mainly wood based products and deals with publishing and web designing.
http://www.famo.jp
GRAND FURNITURE & FACTORY-Naoya Matsuo
Born in Tokyo. He left Tama Art University before graduation. He learned welding at a vocational training school and studied
woodworking at the City & Islington College in London. After working for AZUMI he estabilshed GRAND FURNITURE &
FACTORY in 2000. He is active as a designer-maker.
http://www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/GFandF/
Jin Kuramoto
Born in Awajishima, Hyogo, 1976 . He graduated from the Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Design in 1999 .
He worked as a designing member of f.a.t. from 2003 - 2007 . He set up JIN KURAMOTO STUDIO. He received
many awards such as IF Design award and Good Design award and so forth.
http://www.jinkuramoto.com
Jo Nagasaka
He was born in Osaka,1971 and raised in Chiba. He established Sschemata Co., Ltd. after having graduated from the architectural course in the Art Department at Tokyo University of Art. In 2007 , the office moved to Nakameguro.He also established another office “happa”where different types of businesses gather and share the space such as in the gallery.
http://www.sschemata.com
Kazutoyo Yamamoto
He was born in Saitama, 1976 . He set up the company, Dessence, LLC. In 2005. He carries out designing and constructing space and furniture, mainly at houses, commercial spaces and offices. He also constructs as a craftsperson.
http://www.dessence.jp
Kousuke Tsumura
Fashion designer. His concept, "the ultimate home is clothes" is embodied in the urban survival fashion ware "FINAL HOME". Going through the fashion scene such as the Paris Collection,he goes back and forth home while crossing over the fields of design, art and architecture.
http://www.finalhome.com
Masato Hatanaka
His concept is haute couture sound and quests for the way sound should be. He is a composer who deals with creating many works in fields such as stages, art, architectire and design and all eyes are on him.In 2008 , he presented his works at the ISSEY MIYAKE XXIc., Tokyo Wonder at Milano Salone and is highly acknowledged. His unique method of giving life to any kind of sound has been highly distinguished in the world.
http://www.hatanakamasato.net
METAHO
Masafumi Asamoto (Product Designer). Kazumi Abe (Funiture Designer). Akihiro Kudo (Funiture Designer ). Shunpei Taniguti (Product Designer)
http://www.metaho.com
METROCS-Riki Watanabe
Born in Tokyo, 1911 . After having graduated from the Woodcraft Department at Tokyo Higher School of Arts and Design, he joined architect Bruno Taut's office in Gunma in 1936 . In 1949, Watanabe established his own designing studio. He is still designing actively, focusing mainly on watches and furniture.
http://metrocs.jp
Mihoko Mori
After having worked in the ISSEY MIYAKE design team, she became a freelancer in 2004 . Having been exposed to many prefectural skills and traditional art crafts and sites of manufacturing, she is active and makes the best of her knowledge in projects of many fields such as fashion.
http://www.moira.jp
MILE
This design consists of three artists
Bandai Matsuo : acoustic engineer,Kentaro Kai : software engineer and Kozo Shimoyama : interior designer.Out of the counsel of three comes wisdom. They create designs that link together people, objects and space by adopting humourous storytelling.
Portrait:©Takumi Ota
http://mileproject.jp
OnGround-Katayama@moviti
Born in Kobe in 1964. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. Works as an in-house designer in Tokyo involved in the product design and advanced development of personal tools and devices.Has been working independently on cross-disciplinary projects since 2005. Participated in Design Tide 2006 as part of OnWall, together with Tomoko Azumi and Rie Isono.
http://moviti.com/
OnGround-Rie Isono
Product designer. After graduating from Musashino University of Arts, she worked for Sony Design Centre and PSD Associates (London), before opening her own practice Pear Design Studio in 2000. She aims to design objects for providing comfort for everyday life.
http://pear-ds.com/
OnGround-Tomoko Azumi
Born in Hiroshima in 1966. Head of t.n.a. Design Studio in London. Designs furniture, lighting fixtures and lifestyle products as well as exhibition spaces and layouts, with a view to raising the quality of life on all these fronts. Guest lecturer at Royal College of Art, London.
http://www.tnadesignstudio.co.uk
Piers Mansfield
British Designers Fly-Pitcher, produce limited editions, on off's and experimental installations. Their work is often sought af ter by collectors in New York, Europe and Japan.
http://www.fly-pitcher.com
PINTO
Tak anor i Hik ima and Masayoshi Suzuki formed this unit in 2008 . After graduating from the Nihon University, College of Art. They worked at an electronics manufacturer and an office furniture manufacturer. This is the first exhibition as PINTO.
http://pinto-design.jp
Pompelmo
They met when they were working at FABRICA in Italy. Akira Fujimoto and Takuya Matsuda have been working as a unit since 2002 in a wide range of fields including visual communication,interactive, products and furniture.
http://www.pompelmo.jp
Raw-Edges Design Studio
This official collaboration between Yael Mer & Shay Alkalay started after many years of sharing together life, thoughts, ideas and actually every thing inbetween.Mer's main interest focuses on turning two dimensional sheet materials into curvaceous functional forms whereas Alkalay is fascinated by how things move, function and react. Together they working as ‘Raw-Edges’and share a common goal to search for objects that have never been seen before!
http://www.raw-edges.com/
Ray
Ray×SUN-AD : It is a collaborative project between a lighting munifacturer, MAXRAY's conceptual line "Ray" and a creative production "SUN-AD". SUN-AD go beyond the production of advertisement this season and also deal with catalogue production and product designs included in "Ray".
http://www.ray-light.com
Retz Yoshimoto
He went to England in 2002 . He studied furniture product design at Kingston Universty and after graduating from the university, he started his design activity in Tokyo.
http://www.retz-yoshimoto.com
Sfera
Sfera's experience on international stage has allowed it to review the relationship between people and objects. Further exploring the vessels and implements that share an affinity with the human spirit. Sfera has a goal to create new values that reach beyond cultural difference. A mood comprising fervor and excellence in design makes it possible to harmonies objects with different or contrasting characteristics.
http://www.ricordi-sfera.com
SHIMURABROS. × EXILIM
A Sister/Brother artist duo,Yuka and Kentaro create works of motion images informats such as media art, film and installation. A new expression of imagery is achieved through their inventions.
http://shimurabros.boomboomfilm.com
Suppose design office-Makoto Tanijiri
He was born in Hiroshima, 1974 . After having worked for Motokane architect office and HAL architectural office, he established suppose design office.
http://www.suppose.jp
Tamotsu Koshima
Born in 1980. He is actively based in Tokyo. He develops a design that leaves out excess rutnlessly on the theme of "stoic". Not only unnecessary but also necessary, his aims to redefine boundaries between them.
Portrait:©Max Hodges
Teruhiro Yanagihara
He was born in Kagawa,1976. He started working based in Osaka in 2002 . He deals with miscellaneous projects in Japan and the world by concentrating on creating also circumstances for creating designs not only designs of objects.
http://www.isolationunit.info
Tomás Alonso
Spanish designer Tomás Alonso has been living, studying and working in the USA, Italy and Australia before moving to London to complete a MA at the Royal College of Art. His choice to move into product and furniture design via his understanding of the automotive industry results in an intelligent approach that uses simplicity of forms to communicate ideas and functions. In 2006 he co-founded the design collective OKAYstudio with 5 other recent graduates from the RCA. His work has been widely published, exhibited and has been recently included in the permanent collection of the Design Museum in London.
http://www.tomas-alonso.com/
Toshihiko Sakai × MOOR
Product designer. Born in 1964 . His latest works are "BODiBEAT", a portable MP3 player from YAMAHA, and "SPIDER", an HDD recorder from PTP. Also, he works on the "Delicious Kitchen Project" and the other projects, such as the new goods development of LEC, as a design director.
http://www.sakaidesign.com
Toshi Wakita
He mekes the best out of the quality of visual medium with his unique method. By giving life to "nothing", he turns it into a substantial visual world. Stillness and motion embedded in works, beauty and truth and colours bring out a new experience to those who see his works. He works in Tokyo, New York and Milano in a wide range of visual fields as a creator.
http://jp.youtube.com/user/studiomaili
TrinhBuscher
An architectural and design company established by Chauntelle Trinh and Eckard Buscher in 2006 . They moved their base to Berlin, Germany in 2007.Currently, they have taken interest in studying global cities and urban structure.
http://www.metropolitan-cityscapes.com
Tsutomu Ben Sato+Tetsushi Kurokawa
Tsutomu Ben Sato : Architect / Principal, Bensato Architecture / Trustee, The Japan Interior Planner Association of Tokyo / Lecturer, Tokyo Denki University, ICS College of Arts. Tetsushi
Kurokawa : Architect / Principal, Tetsushi Kurokawa Architecture/ Trustee, The Japan Interior Planner Association of Tokyo.
Portrait&work:©STILLSOLID Inc.
http://designq.24.dtiblog.com
