Tokyo Design Week 2009
The culmination to the recent flurry of design events was the Tokyo Design Week. I managed to spend some time at Midtown’s Design Tide and also the larger event space at Gaien Mae, 100%. Both events were full of creative and talented individuals and businesses from various parts of the world, and it was a great opportunity to see people coming up with new and interesting designs in a whole range of design disciplines. I have to say that spending a whole day at these events can be quite a tiring endeavour especially if theres been any drinking the night before (!)…
I did find that different nationalities brought their own flavour to how they design and what impressed me most was the participation from the Korean contribution. I felt they were really the most creative and exploratory in most of their designs, however if they were to be successful in Japan the level of execution would need to step up to another level. The event allows me, as a graphic designer, feel previliged enough to directly compare product and architectural design from one country to another and I thoroughly enjoyed this. Having it all laid out in front of you and also having the designer right there to talk to about how they got to their conclusion is an exceptional benefit of events like these. I look forward to the next one.
Here are some of the snaps I took over the weekend:
Busy boy
The entrance to Design Tide
A 2-way drawer unit
Flower holders
Jewelry box
Paper light
Net bonding tape
Sore ass
100% Tokyo
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