Tag: Design

Muji have created their first new model home in five years with the Tate no Ie, the "vertical house". It joins the Mado no Ie (Window House) and the Ki no Ie (Tree House). Not strictly prefab, ...

Artist Asami Kiyokawa, known for her extravagant combination of embroidery and photography, and collaborations with top models and actresses, has got together with Starbucks Japan to create a special ...

You might think there isn't much room for further development in the design of the humble flower vase. But you'd be wrong. Designed by Fumiaki Goto/224 Porcelain, the Hanabunko is a flower vase ...

Top Japanese design studio nendo has designed this coffee mugs for Starbuck's in Japan. Sold at Starbucks branches throughout Japan, the mugs have a print on the bottom that makes it look like the ...

Cement is one of those much-aligned materials. We rail against concrete buildings, slabs, roads and the like, but take an architect like Tadao Ando and he will show you what can be done with concrete ...

One of our favorite Japanese enterprises, Maywa Denki, has made a typically original and hilarious group music video to celebrate twenty years since it was founded. Maywa Denki is part music band, ...

Just when we thought technology would replace everything, we hear about an event like iPhone Creative Festa and meet people who say -- not just yet! Perhaps we all have this inner desire to be ...

We really love the +d brand by h concept, which works with individual designers to produce very cool but very practical stationery and other fun stuff for the home. Like that other fun brand ...

We're going to go out on a limb here and appoint the Solano as the most stylish uchiwa (handheld fan) we have seen this year. It comes in four semi-transparent, translucent colors, and can be ...

Lanterns in Japan are called chochin and are featured on the front of most izakaya restaurants, as well as shrines. There is a famously huge one, for example, at Kaminarimon ("Thunder Gate") in ...

We just discovered Headphone Girls, a fun online portal that, as the title suggests, features girls showing off cool Japanese designer headphones. The idea is that each girl showcases a pair ...

Nano Nano is a series of micro character toys and models made from miniature electronic parts and other metal objects. Designed by Kouichi Miyajima and created in his atelier, they are sold as ...

Designer dog houses adapted to match the breed of the pooch? Well, it already no secret that the Japanese do love two things -- pets and good design -- so perhaps this marriage was inevitable. After ...

What makes a toy a good toy? Room for sensory discovery, imagination and creativity. At least, that's according to designer Makiko Shinoda, whose Playing with Senses Perceptible Chess Game is ...

The Japan Sport Council has selected the winning architect for building the new National Stadium Japan. There were 46 entries from architects around the world in the first stage, of which 11 were ...