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The Timeless Beauty of Traditional Japanese Furniture

On: March 19, 2023

Tagged: japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese furniture

Traditional Japanese Furniture Traditional Japanese furniture is known for being simple and useful. It isRead More →

RIP – Issey Miyake, the Japanese fashion designer, dies 84.

On: February 24, 2023

Tagged: fashion design, fashion designer, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Issey Miyake died on August 5, 2022, in a Tokyo hospital of liver cancer. He founded the Miyake Design Studio in 1970.Read More →

Masakzu Kobayashi preparing for exhibition

Masakazu Kobayashi (b.1944) Japanese textile designer

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: fabric, fabric designer, fabrics, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, textile, textile designer

Masakazu Kobayashi studied at the University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan. He manifested traditional textile techniques and aesthetics in his work. Between 1966 and 1975, he worked as a textile designer for Kawashima. His 1982 fabric evoked komon, a textile dyeing technique which uses paper patterns with small motifs.Read More →

Japan Advertising Artists Club pioneer of Japanese Graphic Design

On: January 9, 2023

Tagged: design association, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, japanese graphic design

In the 1960s, the JAAC’s philosophy came under fire for being overly reliant on exhibitions as a platform for innovative ideas. Furthermore, during the turbulent 1960s, a perceived emphasis on aesthetics at the expense of social significance, combined with allegations of elitism, led to the organisation’s disbandment in 1970.Read More →

Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese Artist and Designer

On: January 3, 2023

Tagged: artist, Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Nara grew up in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, about 300 miles north of the Tochigi Prefecture. His exposure to Western music on the American military radio station Far East Network in Honshu influenced his artistic imagination early. Later, he would provide cover art for bands including Shonen Knife, R.E.M., and Bloodthirsty Butchers.Read More →

Poster for Nikon (1957) by Yusaku Kamekura

On: September 28, 2022

Tagged: Japan, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, japanese graphic design, Posters Japanese

Yusaku Kamekura’s poster emphasises the brilliance and clarity attained with the Nikon lens and the technical perfection of his client’s camera by using brilliant optical patterns and powerful, white letter-forms against an intensely dark background. Read More →

Soichiro Sasakura (b.1949) Japanese Glassware Designer

On: September 27, 2022

Tagged: Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

He worked for Sasaki Glass, for which he designed the 1988 San Marino glassware range.Read More →

Ukiyo-e, Pictures of the floating world

On: August 2, 2022

Tagged: japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design

Ukiyo-e, translated as “pictures of the floating world,” has captured wisps of the natural beauty that one sees every day. These prints are a record of 18th and 19th-century life in Japan and had a profound effect on the great Western artists of the time.Read More →

Netsuke – Small Mythological carvings from Japan

On: June 23, 2022

Tagged: design classic, design object, Design Term, Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, Japan, japanese culture, Japanese Design, sofa

Netsuke: A little Japanese sculptured item of ivory, wood, or porcelain that ranges in height and width from one-half to three inches. Mythological images, flowers, animals, gods, and goddesses are among the carvings. Netsuke pieces were initially employed as toggles in the fourteenth century. A cord was slipped under and over the obi and through a hole in the netsuke.Read More →

Black Wire Chair by Oki Sato

On: November 21, 2021

Tagged: Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, Japanese furniture

Oki Santo designed this chair; it was a part of a series called Thin Black Lines. The series includes a chair and clothes rack intended to appear as sketches in the air or calligraphy symbols. Thin black lines like the traces of sketches drawn in the air made transparent surfaces and volumes appear, which we assigned practical functions. The outlines remained after simplifying paintings of plants and animals. Read More →

Osamu Tezuka (1928 – 1989) Japanese manga artist and cartoonist

On: November 21, 2021

Tagged: illustrator, Japan, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, Japanese Illustrator, manga

OSAMU TEZUKA, who was revered as the “god of manga,” watched Bambi eighty times, until he had memorised every frame, and dreamed of equaling or surpassing Disney realism in his own animation.Read More →

Shinjuku at night – Colour Palette

On: November 19, 2021

Tagged: color theory, colour, colour palette, Colour Theory, Japan, japanese culture, Photography

After a ten days holiday in Tokyo which ended up a visual feast. I took hundreds of photos with my iPhone the colour within this is vivid and I was interested what type of colour palette I was able to extract from it. I call it Shinjuku.Read More →

Dorodango Japanese polished dirt balls

On: November 13, 2021

Tagged: Ceramic Design, Japan, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, kids

The hand-rolling of this soil-based mixture can be relaxing and comfortable to do. Dorodango is not without its difficulties and needs a high degree of skill, patience and concentration. Given the fragility and inclination of the dorodango to break, the perfectly formed ball is elusive. It can also be a challenging process to achieve the perfect shine.Read More →

Sori Yanagi – Japanese Industrial Designer

On: November 12, 2021

Tagged: asian design, Design, Japan, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, kettle, kettles, nov-12, stool, teapot, tokyo

Sori Yanagi (1915-2011) was an industrial designer from Japan. Although previously trained as a fine artist and worked in an architectural studio, Yanagi went on to study industrial design in 1947.Read More →

How much do you know about Hello Kitty?

On: November 8, 2021

Tagged: hello kitty, illustrators, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Before she became famous and loved by people all over the world, Hello Kitty first appeared in Japan. You see her adorable face on anything from backpacks to clothing and even cutlery. But how much do you know about this famous Japanese character?Read More →

Fujiwo Ishimoto Japanese born textile & ceramic designer

On: November 8, 2021

Tagged: Ceramic Design, finland, Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, marimekko

The natural world and its phenomena influence Ishimoto’s works. His designs have basic forms that are coupled with vibrant exterior constructions and lavish ornamentation. Ishimoto has won the State Industrial Arts Prize, the Kaj Franck Design Prize, and Honourable Mentions at the Finland Designs show in 1983, 1989, and 1993, among other awards. He was given the Pro Finlandia Medal in 2011. His ceramics and textiles have been featured in several private and group shows. Fujiwo Ishimoto has also designed opera stage sets and costumes.Read More →

Kogin Insect Brooches by Hine Mizushima (reblog)

On: November 4, 2021

Tagged: japanese culture

Embroidered insect brooches neatly contained in specimen boxes by Vancouver-based artist Hine Mizushima. The brooches, created using hand-dyed Kogin fabrics, threads and Japanese glass beads, are for a group exhibition entitled The Kingdom of Specimens at Ranbu gallery in Osaka, Japan. Read More →

How Isamu Noguchi’s Akari lamps changed lighting forever

On: November 3, 2021

Tagged: asian, asian design, Japan, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, Lamp

Although most often described as a sculptor, Isamu Noguchi’s output wasn’t confined to the realms of decorative art. He made stage sets, furniture (his eponymous coffee table is a cult piece) and created interiors as well as gardens.Read More →

Harue Koga delightful illustrations and paintings ♥︎

On: October 2, 2021

Tagged: Design, illustrations, Japan, Japanese, japanese artist, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

. He dropped out of junior high school to pursue a career as a painter, and in 1912, he relocated to Tokyo. He studied at the Taiheiyoga-institute kai’s and then the Japan Watercolor Painting Society’s institute. Koga became a priest in 1915 and studied Buddhism at Taisho University. Read More →

Yohji Yamamoto (b.1943) Japanese Fashion Designer

On: July 22, 2021

Tagged: Japanese, japanese culture, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵

Yohji Yamamoto fashion is exemplified by ease and wearability. READ MORE about this innovative radically different Japanese Designer.Read More →

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