Tag: Tokyo

French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux presents a new installation in Tokyo titled ‘Universe of words’. The occasion was the 100 years of the Japanese soft drink calpis. The installation ‘Universe of words’ immerses visitors in colored pieces of paper suspended from...

Japanese Collective Mé has realized a large-scale installation that mimics the ocean. The art piece is titled “Contact“, as part of the Mori Art Museum’s sixth iteration of their Roppongi Crossing series of exhibitions. The hyper-realistic artwork suspends stormy ocean swell...

These textile structures translate origami into digital weaving. The project, realized by Studio Samira Boon and winner of the creative heroes award, is an innovative series of textile structures based on traditional Japanese folding techniques. Studio Samira Boon collaborated with Tilburg’s TextielLab and...

Tokyo-based design studio, WOW inc., has designed a visual installation series for the Shiseido Ginza building in Tokyo. The series comprises three pieces based on the concept of neuroscience: “Neuro Surge”, “Interactive Wall”, and “Product Room”. Each installation is intended...

From January 20-30, the National Art Center of Tokyo celebrated its 10th anniversary. For the celebration, architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux was commissioned to transform the Special Exhibition Gallery room into something extraordinary. She succeeded in turning the 2,000 square...

Tokyo based studio Necktie has come up with this fun way to make waiting for your tea to infuse much more fun. The designers recognised that taking a tea bag out of your mug feels a little bit like fishing,...

The architecture studio Atelier Tekuto designed an amazing piece of architecture called “R-Torso-C” that is an angular exposed concrete home located in the heart of Tokyo. Working within tight space constraints, the architects cut away at the building’s corners and installed...

One of our favourite elements of this year’s Fuorisalone/Milan Design Week came, somewhat surprisingly, from Japan. In the Tortona district, Tokyo Design Week had a large space where the best of Japanese design, art, fashion and technology was exhibited. Innovation...

The Elevations series by Swedish Studio Esinam includes “portraits” of some of the world’s best-known capital cities. The series features detailed architectural-style drawings of famous buildings making up the urban landscape of each city, and is available as limited edition...

Japanese architects Sugawara Daisuke have imagined the “Transustainable House”, located in Tokyo. The structure gives the impression that the house is cut in half : a shared exterior part and an interior part. A pleasant and unusual architecture.    ...