This week, I showed my new transformable chair “share chair” at Zero Exhibition in Tokyo Designer’s Week. Thank your comming to my demonstration space. When you use the chair, you share your place and feeling with your lovely people by the impressive interaction. That’s my concept. And The new model have light up capable function. You can put a light, Video projector and home planetarium inside the chair to project the light to the cover. you can sit down at the light. In the picture, I put Video projector with fisheye lenz into the chair to project video images from the inside of the chair. And I used PS3 to […]

Last night, I enjoyed this year’s final F1 Gramd Prix. The ending was dramatic and It’s enought to be satisfied us the coming new generation. When I was watching TV, I have tried to project the TV image from the inside of my chair. The picture is the test. sprint for this last week and the next is Tokyo Designer’s Week!

It’s first image of latest share chair design for Tokyo Designer’s Week 2007. This year’s is stool type. The design have a lot of the problems yet, and now changing earnestly to solve that. No trouble, No life :-) Tokyo Designer’s Week ZERO exhibition http://www.c-channel.co.jp/jp/exhibition/zero.php

I started to make this year’s my chair. And I tryed to design have an elegant round shaped one. But the elegance was incompatible with my gimmick. At last, it became a flop… I need my elegance :-P

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??