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Issey Miyake

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

On: August 10, 2022

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 →

Hiroshi Yamano – Exquisite Japanese Glass Designs

On: August 1, 2022

Tagged: glass, glass designer, glassmaking, glassware, glassware designer, glassworker, Japan, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

Kiroshi Yamano is a Japanese Glass Designer. He studied at the Tokyo Glass Crafts Institute to 1984 and Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, to 1989. Read More →

Introducing Kazuhide Takahama (b.1930) Japanese Designer

On: July 30, 2022

Tagged: furniture, furniture design, furniture designer, furniture maker, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, japanese furniture

At the X Milan Triennale exhibition in 1954, he met the furniture manufacturer, Dino Gavina, who subsequently invited Takahama to work for him in Italy. Takahama’s first design for Gavina was the geometrically severe Naeko sofa-bed (1957). Read More →

Ikko Tanaka (1930 -2002) 🇯🇵 Graphic Design blend of East and West

On: July 28, 2022

Tagged: graphic design, graphic designer, Ikko Tanaka, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, japanese graphic design

Ikko Tanaka was a Leading Graphic Designer in Japan. He had an enormous impact on the post-war visual culture in Japan.Read More →

Toshiyuki Kita (b.1942) Japanese Furniture and Interior Designer

On: July 18, 2022

Tagged: furniture, furniture designer, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

He set up his own design office in Osaka in 1964; in 1969, he began designing furniture for Italian and Japanese firms; he collaborated with Silvio Coppola, Giotto Stoppino, and Bepi Fiori for Bernini. He is best known for the 1980 Wink articulated armchair produced by Cassina, which took four years to design; Read More →

Katsuji Wakisaka ( b.1944 ) 🗻 Japanese Textile Designer

On: July 5, 2022

Tagged: fabric, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, textile

Katsuji Wakisaka is a Japanese textile designer. Between 1960 -1963 he studied textile design in Kyoto.Read More →

Yoshitomo Nara (b.1959) Japanese Artist and Designer

On: July 1, 2022

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 →

Suehari Fukami (b.1947) Japanese Studio Potter

On: June 26, 2022

Tagged: ceramic design, Ceramicists, ceramics, Japanese Ceramicist, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

Suehari Fukami (b.1947) is a Japanese studio potter based in Kyoto. He works in the bluish-white porcelain known in Japanese as seihakuji, developed in the Song dynasty JINGDEZEN wares. Read More →

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Listening to Stone (paperback) – Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

On: June 22, 2022

Tagged: book, book - american design, book - japanese design, books, bookshop, Japan, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

A master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was an essential figure for modern public art. Noguchi, born to an American mother and a Japanese father, never felt at home anywhere and spent his life creating identities through his sculptures, monuments, and gardens. Read More →

Poster for Nikon (1957) by Yusaku Kamekura

On: February 6, 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 →

Susumu Ilkuta Japanese Ceramicist

On: January 20, 2022

Tagged: ceramicist, Ceramicists, Japanese Ceramicist, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵

He worked as a fashion designer in Tokyo. In 1958, he moved to New York at the invitation of hatter Lilly Daché. He studied ceramics in night classes in New York. In 1973, he returned to Japan, where he studied with Kohbei and painted on unfired porcelain.Read More →

Soichiro Sasakura (b.1949) Japanese Glassware Designer

On: January 11, 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 →

Kisho Kurokawa (b.1934) Japanese Architect and Furniture Designer

On: January 11, 2022

Tagged: furniture, japanese, japanese designer 🇯🇵

In 1960, at the age of 26, he made his debut into the world as one of the founders of the Metabolism Movement. Read More →

Shoji Hamada (1894 – 1978) Japanese Potter

On: November 28, 2021

Tagged: ceramic, ceramic design, ceramicist, Ceramicists, ceramics, cermamics, Japan, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, potter, pottery

Shoji Hamada, along with Bernard Leach, was one of the key figures in the development of studio pottery in the 20th century. His influence both in England and the US as well as in his native Japan cannot be underestimated. Read More →

Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) Japanese textile designer and producer

On: November 23, 2021

Tagged: fabric, fabric designer, Japan, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, textile, textile designer

Junichi Arai (1932 – 2017) was a Japanese textile designer and producer born in Kiryu, Gunma. As the sixth generation of a mill-owning family, Arai grew up with fabrics being woven for obis and kimonos. He held traditional weaving methods in high regard and the skills that only the human hand can have in the art of fabric making. 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 →

Etsuko Nishi (b.1955) Japanese Glass Designer

On: November 21, 2021

Tagged: glass, glassware, glassware designer, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, pâte de verre

Etsuko Nishi is a Japanese Glass Designer. She is a leading expert in pâte de verre, one of the oldest and most difficult glass-making forms. The desired shape is first made of clay, which is used as the basis for the mould. The glass powder is then mixed with a special type of paste, and the mixture is then placed in the mould and then fired.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

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 →

Makio Hasuike Japanese (b.1938) Japanese Industrial Designer

On: November 17, 2021

Tagged: Coffee Machines, coffee maker, japanese, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, Japanese Industrial Design, Knives

Hasuike founded his firm in Milan after studying architecture and industrial design in Tokyo and working for Seiko for a year. He has designed for various well-known brands, including Gaggia coffee machines, Panasonic electronic items, Villeroy & Boch sanitary ware and tableware, Grand Gourmet kitchen knives (1994), and WMF cookware. Read More →

Teruo Yamada (b.1945) Japanese Glassware Designer

On: November 15, 2021

Tagged: arts and craft, glass, glassware, glassware designer, Japanese Design, japanese designer 🇯🇵, Japanese Glass, traditonal crafts

His work was shown at 1980 ‘Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition,’ Tokyo; 1981 and 1990 ‘Glass in Japan,’ Tokyo; 1985 ‘New Glass in Japan,’ Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe; 1987 ‘The Art of Contemporary Japanese Studio Glass,’ Heller Gallery, New York; 1991 (V) Triennale of the Japan Glass Art Crafts Association, Heller Gallery.Read More →

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