In this week, Krispy Kreme DOUGHNUTS coming to Tokyo ! I went to The Shop in this morning. ( opened at 7:00am. ) It’s very soft ( more than Chiffon Cake ), and very very sweeeet ! Fried hot is better. take it soon.

This image was rendered as the final plan. I printed out 1/1 scale draft by the 3DCG data. Engineer used the draft as a guide for bending stainless steel pipes. The animation for explanation about the transformming. I showed the movie at Tokyo Designer’ s Week exhibition ( used PSP ). And I made such as 5 colours name cards at last. Last one is not for me but for the factory made the chair. Many peoples took it and got access the blog. thanks! Some children took all of the colour’s :-)

Today is the tokyo designer’s week ’06 last day. My chair was placed on a floor, and PSP on the stage. A few people thought the PSP was my art :-) It’s at accross from my place. you can feel confortable breezes when you see it.

One month ago, I tried to find out a factory to order my designed chair (again). and at last, Only one factory accepted. Their name is TOKYUSHU GIKEN at Saitama near Tokyo. I haven’t known that realize my chair was possible or not. For example, normaly simple pipe chair only have 6 or 8 curves, but my chair have 408 small curves in one chair. But they answered me possibile to build it and noticed some problems. I tried to solve the problems, drafted the design again and printed out it by real size to “A0” size big paper for them ( at Kinko’s ). Basically it is very simple […]

I should inform I passed a review to exhibit my chair at Tokyo Designers Week’06 Pro Exhibition. Designer’s Association sended me the result before the deadline to pay the Without Predictable Entory fee for the examination. Thank if you minded about my trouble with Designer’s Association’s Issue. OK, I paid $250 (30,000, yen) for an participation fee to exhibition. But they demand not only the entory fee but to become their member fee was never wrote any of their Documentation. I paid more $250 ! :-( Well, $500 is not so expencive for such as Exhibition. But I think they should present all of the cost and the risk in […]

I already sended my design to Design Association for Tokyo Designer’s Week Exhibition 2006, I sald. Design Association said that( in their contract and guidance web page, ) they would screen applicants and send their judgement to us, at mid of August, and AFTER THAT they would charge 31,500,-yen for the showing fee to the candidate. But now, they not only send the outcome yet, But they even demanded the fee for their judgement! They said that when I can pass it, we use it to the showing fee. But I can’t, they woldn’t return the Showing fee with no showing. WHY!? I appeal them to keep their contract. Now, […]

I started to design a chair, again. Already I sended the original design to exhibit it at Tokyo Designer’s Week . I don’t know I can exhibit it cos I couldn’t to take a enough time to make the documentation about it. But if I can pass it, I’ll make it ! By the way, this year’s pro exhibition’s theme is LOVE. It’s Lovely??

Jun Maeda is only the professional Japanese rider for a street race. But he got injuries at most historical and dengerous street race, Manx TT, and he dies today. He sent us not only his result but the atmosphere. We know he loved the great race. RIP. :’-) TT News http://www.iomtt.com/blogs/tt_news/archive/2006/06/06/56094.aspx his pictures at Isle of Man Guide page http://www.iomguide.com/races/database/rider-page.php?rider=366&event_id=5 Maeda’s blog page( Japanese page ) http://www.eigyo.co.jp/blog/mantt/index.php interview at BRITISH COUNCIL( Japanese page ) http://www.britishcouncil.org/jp/japan-interview-racer-maeda.htm Maeda talked about Manx TT Video Game( Japanese page ) http://watch.impress.co.jp/game%2Fdocs/20060510/tt.htm

a happy new year! I should say thank you for all of my friend and you. I hope to keep a lot kind of the relationship as last year. in last year, not only I changed my occupation, but I made a chair privately. In end of the year, my designed chair appeared on a website and magazine. one is JDN. the website is famous in informations and reports about design and that’s events in japan. and one of the writer, Akiko Kuroda-san continue to write reports about japanese design festival. Today, Japanese funiture market remains quite active but the distributor is in Europe. and Europe funiture exhibitions is very […]

the article was appeared at Kanagawa local newspaper that Akai professional M.I. was bankrupted. http://www.kanalog.jp/news/local/entry_16076.html Akai was famoused about wind instruments looks synthesizer, sampler (you can synthesize your recorded voice and sound), and specialy drum machine “MPC”. When you use to make your music track, not only you can map sample sound so diverse way on 16 small tap pad and make your phrase with directry tapping by your finger, but the machine have distinctive rhythm when you play your music sequence. A lot of music track maker ( techno, hiphop, house…etc ) love the machine and custom it. http://www.forat.com/service/all%20pictures.htm