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TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 CREATIVE FeS Oct. 25 th (Sat) Nov. 3 rd (Mon) @ Meiji-Jingu Gaien Mae Tokyo Genius Expo Creative Geniuses gather in the woods of Jingu Shrine A 3 nights music live event by geniusand well respected artist Ikue Asazaki Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition - Starring Jin Katagiri & Kentaro Kobayashi (Rahmens), Akihiro Nishino (King Kong) and Moyoco Anno (comic artist) among other 50 talented Japanese creators ASIA AWARDS - Young talented students and creators compete for the Best of Asia Award Robot Creators Exhibition Experience an amazing night with Japanese Robot Creators Exhibition and Forum night (Tomotaka Takahashi, Meiwa Denki etc.) PechaKucha Night 10 panelists give unique presentations at one of the greatest programs launched in Japan and now held in more than 700 cities around the world Genius creators challenge KIMONO design (Ross Lovegrove, Junko Koshino, Daito Manabe, etc.) Architectural Model Exhibition and Forum - 13 most renowned Japanese architects (Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, etc.) Professional Exhibition by 60 world renowned designers (Motomi Kawakami, Emmanuelle Moureaux,etc.) Genius Expo' - by Japanese entertainers from Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. and more (organized by Design Association in cooperation with homeless Kotani, hosted by Akihiro Nishino from Kingkong entertainer) Toshiyuki Inoko, genius interactive digital artist and representative of ultra technologist unit, teamLab Yohei Sadoshima, genius editor and producer of famous comic books, 'Space Brothers' and 'Dragon Sakura' 1000 people barbeque sponsored by geniusentrepreneur Takafumi Horie 'TDW.tv Ken Mogi's Seeds of Inspiration IMAGINE'geniusbrain scientist, Ken Mogi and artist Asami Kiyokawa, the MCs of the weekly design & art TV Show Handmade Market - Talented craft artists gather at TDW handmade market. Halloween Party - organized by the geniusVJs in collaboration with Japanese radio station, J-WAVE Kundo Koyama, inventor of famous mascot Kumamon and the Japanese iron chef. Kyari Pamyu Pamyu's geniusart director, Sebastian Masuda InquiriesDESIGN ASSOCIATION NPO International Office Luana MateiRion AndoErika Yanagi http://www.tdwa.com/ TEL:03-3470-7699080-3550-7699 FAX:03-3470-7705 MAIL:[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected]

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TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 CREATIVE FeS

Oct. 25th (Sat) – Nov. 3rd (Mon) @ Meiji-Jingu Gaien Mae

Tokyo Genius Expo

Creative Geniuses gather in the woods of Jingu Shrine

① A 3 nights music live event by “genius” and well respected artist Ikue Asazaki

② Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition - Starring Jin Katagiri & Kentaro Kobayashi (Rahmens), Akihiro

Nishino (King Kong) and Moyoco Anno (comic artist) among other 50 talented Japanese creators

③ ASIA AWARDS - Young talented students and creators compete for the Best of Asia Award

④ Robot Creators Exhibition – Experience an amazing night with Japanese Robot Creators Exhibition

and Forum night (Tomotaka Takahashi, Meiwa Denki etc.)

⑤ PechaKucha Night – 10 panelists give unique presentations at one of the greatest programs

launched in Japan and now held in more than 700 cities around the world

⑥ Genius creators challenge KIMONO design (Ross Lovegrove, Junko Koshino, Daito Manabe, etc.)

⑦ Architectural Model Exhibition and Forum - 13 most renowned Japanese architects (Toyo Ito, Kengo

Kuma, etc.)

⑧ Professional Exhibition by 60 world renowned designers (Motomi Kawakami, Emmanuelle

Moureaux,etc.)

⑨ Genius Expo' - by Japanese entertainers from Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. and more

(organized by Design Association in cooperation with homeless Kotani, hosted by Akihiro Nishino

from Kingkong – entertainer)

⑩ Toshiyuki Inoko, genius interactive digital artist and representative of ultra technologist unit,

teamLab

⑪ Yohei Sadoshima, genius editor and producer of famous comic books, 'Space Brothers' and 'Dragon

Sakura'

⑫ 1000 people barbeque sponsored by “genius” entrepreneur Takafumi Horie

⑬ 'TDW.tv Ken Mogi's Seeds of Inspiration IMAGINE'’ – “genius” brain scientist, Ken Mogi and artist

Asami Kiyokawa, the MCs of the weekly design & art TV Show

⑭ Handmade Market - Talented craft artists gather at TDW handmade market.

⑮ Halloween Party - organized by the “genius” VJs in collaboration with Japanese radio station,

J-WAVE

⑯ Kundo Koyama, inventor of famous mascot Kumamon and the Japanese iron chef.

⑰ Kyari Pamyu Pamyu's “genius” art director, Sebastian Masuda

<Inquiries>

DESIGN ASSOCIATION NPO International Office Luana Matei・Rion Ando・Erika Yanagi http://www.tdwa.com/

TEL:03-3470-7699・080-3550-7699 FAX:03-3470-7705

MAIL:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

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⑱ Brazilian “genius” artist, Vik Muniz known as the modern Picasso

⑲ Death match between table tennis “genius” girl x “genius” art director, Katsumi Asaba

⑳ Genius Expo Auditions

And More>>

・”Genius” foreign film directors’ works screened (Collaborated with Tokyo International Film Festival)

・29 Genius Creators including Marcel Wanders and Kashiwa Sato exhibiting in “Oh! Furoshiki Exhibition”

at Seibu Shibuya.

TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 Information

“TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK” is an international design event that gathers the excellent architecture, interior,

product design, graphic design and art from all over the world. Since 2005, the event has been taking place

at Meiji Jingu Gaien Mae in Tokyo and attracting more than 100,000 visitors every year. This year, TOKYO

DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 will be held with 4 main themes—Design, Art, Fashion, Music—and offers more than

20 programs and events for 10 days.

Title : ABLE&PARTNERS TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014

Theme : Creative FeS Genius Expo

(Different Creators full of fun and new ideas

Date and Time: Oct. 25h (Sat)- Nov. 3th(Mon)*National Holiday 11:00 ~ 21:00 (20:00 on last day)

Place: Meiji-Jingu Gaien Mae, Tokyo

Visitors: 120,000 (estimate) *109,518 visitors (2013)

Price At the door ticket: 3,000 JPY (Adult) Student Discount: (University) 2,000 JPY, (High-School) 1,500 JPY, (Junior High-School) 1,000 JPY

In Advance Ticket: 2,500 JPY (Adult)

Parent-Child Discount (Children up to elementary school & parents):

3,000→2,000 JPY , Both parents: 6,000→3,000 JPY

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TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 CONTENTS

Architectural Models & Project Proposals Exhibition(Special Exhibition)

This exhibition features architectural models and proposals of the projects that the participating architects

were involved in the past. The featuring Japanese architects are, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto and

more. It highlights behind-the-scenes of the projects by world-widely known Japanese architects. Visitors

witness the moments of the architects' vast ideas getting consolidated onto the proposal and visualized for

the first time. This exhibition also aims to inspire architecture students

Executive committee:Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Kenji Kawasaki, Ochi Shigeki

Participating Architects:Junya Ishigami, o+h, Coelacanth K&H Architects Inc., Kazuyo Sejima, Makoto

Tanijiri, Kohei Nawa, MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO, Sou Fujimoto,

Terunobu Fujimori, Akihisa Hirata, Riken Yamamoto

Special Support Shimizu Corporation

Support Autodesk, Inc.

Photo by Taishi Hirokawa, Tomoki Hirokawa/Hair & make up by carrie HM/costume design by Koshiro Ebata

■Presentation & Talk Session

20 minutes of 1 to 1 talk session by leading architect and selected guest. The talk sessions aim to look

at architecture from new and different perspectives, which might give more possibilities to change the

future of architecture. Don't miss this rare opportunity.

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■Event Information

Day 1 October 27th (Mon), 2014

Speakers: Toyo Ito、Maki Onishi・Hyakuda Yuki, Makoto Tanijiri, Sousuke Fujimoto, Riken

Yamamoto

Day 2 October 28th (Tues) 2014

Speakers: Junya Ishigami, Kengo Kuma, Kohei Nawa, Masahito Harada・Mao Harada, Akihisa

Hirata, Terunobu Fujimori

Special Guest (TBA)

Venue: TDW-DOME, (Inside Tokyo Designers Weeks Venue)

Fee:1Day 1,000 JPY ※TDW entry fee is not included

■Architect exercise (Workshop)

「 Architect exercise 」

Workshops for both children and adults to imitate the shapes of architecture.

■Publishing「Architectural Models & Project Proposals」 A 240 paged book with Interviews of 13 Architects (include studios) can be purchased at TDW Main

Venue. ※Press registered members will receive a free copy of this book.⇒⇒

<Press Registration Form>http://www.tdwa.com/press_release/press_entry/press_entry.html

HOKUSAI MANGA Inspired Exhibition (Special Exhibition)

Starting from the Ito Jakuchu Exhibition held in 2012, TDW Kansei Inspired Exhibition links past and

contemporary creators together. This year we are holding “Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition” with works of

a variety of top creators inspired by great artists in history are gathered in this exhibition.

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), one of the greatest Japanese artists, is the theme for this year’s TDW

inspired exhibition. Hokusai’s works are internationally recognized and strongly influenced Monet, Whistler,

Cezanne, and Van Gogh. He established himself as an influential Japanese painter and his woodblock prints,

"Hokusai Manga" and "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" are known as representative works of Japonism. This

year's TDW Kansei Inspired Exhibition, "Hokusai Manga Inspired Exhibition" gathers works of national and

international top designers and artists, inspired by Katsushika Hokusai.

<Participating Creators>

Katsunori Aoki/Katsumi Asaba/Hajime Anzai/Moyoko Anno/EDP graphic works/Hiroyuki Izutsu/Keiji Ito/Hideki

Inaba/Kamiko Inuyama/Integral Vision Graphics(Takayuki Baba)/AMORE HIROSUKE/Koji Udo (FACTOTUM)/

HDMI/ Koshiro Ebata /OHGUSHI/Kanako Ogawa/Kazuhiko Okushita/Yota Kakuta /Kaoru Kasai/Jin Katagiri

(ramens)/Shun Kawakami/ Atsuki Kikuchi/Kenji Kitazawa/KITAJICO/Takahiro Kimura/Daniel Nicola/Kushino

Masaya/Kenjya(Hayato Koyama)/Kentaro Kobayashi(ramens)/Sano Kenjiro/Shishu/Shinano Hattaro/JUNOSON

/SU(RIP SLYME)/Studio Crocodile/Suto Kanji/Sootome Keiko/Kintaro Takahashi/Chie Tanaka/Kousuke

Tsumura/Kazufumi Nagai/Hiroaki Nagai/Nakatsuka Suitou/ Akihiro Nishino(King Kong)/Yukio Hashimoto/

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Takeshi Hamada/Seiichi Hishikawa/Takafumi Horie/Horihata Hiroyuki・Makiko Sekiguchi(matohu)/Shin Matsunaga

/Sho Miyata/WAkana Yamazaki/Leon Henki

<TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2012 Ito Jyakuchu Inspired Exhibition>

Ito Jakuchu is one of the great painters of the Edo period (1603-1868) that captured the 'deities' of all beings

and created the 'Colorful Realm of living Beings', which is widely considered one of the supreme masterpieces

of Japanese painting. Creators influenced by Jakuchu's works exhibited their works.

ASIA AWARDS「Young Creator Exhibition」&「School Exhibition」 2014 is the second year for the comprehensive Asian creative award, "ASIA AWARDS". It was established to gather all

young and high-quality creative power from Asia and around the world to the center of Tokyo, attempting to discover

young talents and creating a platform for students and young designers. This year the award includes four categories,

design, art, music and fashion.

Theme:「MY AVANT-GARDE」

The essence of creativity is to step forward. The theme of this year's ASIA AWARDS is 「MY AVANT-GARDE」. Like Beatles,

Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga, we are looking for new creation which changes the society.

※Final presentation : Oct 30th (Thur) @ TDW DOME.

Screening 13:00~17:00 Award Ceremony and Party 17:00~ ※For media participation please contact:

Luana Matei TEL:03-3470-7699 E-mail:[email protected]

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YOUNG CREATOR EXHIBITION Categories: DESIGN, ART, FASHION, MUSIC.

Nominated creators under 30 years old exhibit their works at TDW to win THE YOUNG ASIA Grand-Prix.

Judges: ① Design Category Committee Chairman:Kashiwa Sato(Art Director/Creative Director) Kinya Tagawa(takram design engineering), Yugo Nakamura (Web Designer/Interface Designer/Motion Director), Sou Fujimoto(Architect), Yasumichi Morita(GLAMOROUS co., ltd/Designer)

② Art Category Committee Chairman:Yusaku Imamura(Tokyo Wonder Site Director) Kayoko Iemura(Director of ART LAB TOKYO), Toshiyuki Inoko (teamLab CEO), Kiyokawa Asami (Artist), Kohei Nawa(Sculptor, Director of SANDWICH), Kenji Yanobe (Contemporary Artist, Ultra Factory Director)

③ Fashion Category Committee Chairman:Yoshiko Ikoma(Fashion Journalist) Mikio Sakabe (Fashion Designer), Kyoko Fushimi(Stylist), Misha Janette(Fashion Director, Journalist), Yoshikazu Yamagata(Fashion Designer)

④ Music Category Committee Chairman :Keiichiro Shibuya(Musician) Takumi Fujita (J-WAVE Navigator) School Exhibition ASIA AWARDS, established as international creative award in 2013 has become a platform for students

being representatives of their schools, competing for the Asia No. 1 School and Student with other

young creators from around the world. As part of the prize, art works of the ASIA AWARDS Grand-Prix

will be exhibited in TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK in MILANO 2015.

Osaka University of Arts / Okayama University/Kyushu Sangyo University/Kyushu University/Kyoto Institute of Design/Kyoto

Institute of Technology/Kyoto Seika University/Keio Unviersity Graduate School/Architecture Students Circle Flat/Shizuoka

University of Art and Culture/Shibaura Institute of Technology/Tokyo Metropolitan University/Josai International Unviersity/Joshibi

University of Art and Design/Kuwasawa Design School/Human Academy Tokyo/Sojo University/Takarazuka University (Shinjuku)

/Tama Art University/Chiba University/Digital Hollywood University, Graduate School/Tokai University/Tokyo Politechnic

University/Tokyo Zokei University/Tokyo Designer Gakuin College/Tokyo Design Academy/Tokyo Denki University/Tokyo

University of Science/Toyo University/Toyo Institute of Art and Design/Tokoha Unviersity/Nagoya Unviersity of Arts/Nippon

Institute of Technology/Nihon University/Machida Design College/Musashino University/Musashino Art University/Institute of

Technologists/Yokohama College of Art and Design/Waseda University/Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de

Lille(France)/Esmod International(France)/El Cal(France)/Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem(Israel)/University

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of Arts London(UK)/Tongmyong University(Korea)/Kyung il unversity(Korea)/National Cheng Kung University(Taiwan)/

Centro Integral de Moda y Estilo(Mexico)/Tokyo International School(Japan)

The Professional Exhibition Solo exhibition by renown international professional

designers. The genres includes: product design interior,

fashion, textile, photography, graphics, art and more.

<Participating Creators>

Ryosaku Aoki / Masayuki Haruta, Yukichi Anno, Arianna Vivenzio

Ochobags, Shigeharu Isaka, Eiri Iwakura, Koichi Inoue, Tatsuo Iwaoka+Hikaru Watanabe, Emmanuelle Moureaux,

Toshihito Okura, Motomi Kawakami, Nobuhiro Kawabata, Keiko Kano, Ryoji Kato, Eriko Kasahara, Takahiro Kitamura,

Azusa Kobayakawa, Kenji Komada, Masayuki Sato, Ryuji Shibuya, shunsudo / Franero, Isao Suzuki, Shintaro Tada, Keita

Tatara, Ryoji Takahashi, Takashi Tanaka, Ryo Teshima, TEA CEREMONY, Koichi Tominuki, Mikako Tomotari, Shinichiro

Nakai, Toshiyuki Namiki, Denju Narita, Masanori Nakashima, Tomoo Nobori、Noriko Hashida、Shunya Hattori / Risa

Yamada, Shigeki Hayashi, Jun Fujiki, Makoto Fujiwara, Mami Honday, Waen Douta, Hiroko Machida, Hikaru Yamaguchi,

Yutaka Yanagisawa, Masahiro Yamauchi, Masashi Yonemoto, Shinya Yoshida

Creative Life Exhibition

Theme: Lifestyle & Technology

Companies, Brands, Designers present new designs and ideas. Furthermore, collaborations of

companies and designers can be seen here. (Purchasable)

amana×MATILDA/ABLE INC./Echizen_ya+Llc.2K54DESIGN/ FURNITURE DESIGN INSTITUTE/

Japan and Leather Goods Industries Association/Kuretake Co.,Ltd./Kokeniwa/Cosmo Sound Inc./

Subway/Shimoto Kogyo Co.,Ltd ×znug design/Simmons/BASE/Space/Design Formulation

Company/ Future Research Lab. / 3M / Sogo & Seibu Co.,Ltd. / SEKISUI HOUSE Ltd. / Semi/

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zerobyzero/Taiwan Design Center/Tokyo Designer Gakuin College/CHUAI, Inc. Ltd./Daisy/

Tohokushinsha Film Corporation×Shiftbrain/Japan leather and Leather goods Industries Association/

TOYO INK Co.,Ltd./Nikkei Business Publications, Inc./Tomei/NPO Heartful Japan/Haichi/Vanfu Inc.

/Hida Sangyo Co.,Ltd./artigiano/PHIL/fullel/Pronest/Midfielder/Mirukuru/Moneual Japan/

Hiroshi Yoshii/ Nngineer Network Co.,Ltd./RITA Fujita/Living Farm/Renault Japan/RINN/Wacom

/24°Studio/A&M Accessories/ADBRAIN PRODUCT PROJECT/Aimezlestyle/aquvii/Bangkok Rag

Cie/VeeShoo Nakaden Keori Co., Ltd./Bilateral/C+MSI Laboratory/Chiikka/CrownClown/cucco/

DaiTai/DIC Graphics Corporation/Dynamite Brothers Syndicate/EDP graphic works/ekoD Works/

FLOW Jewelry/FONTHIP STUDIO LTD.,PART./Formes/free mind airlines./Hat Hat FUKADA/HIILO

/ INDELART / Jake Dyson Products / JK FOCTORY CO.,LTD / KAIST / Kangaroomstudio /

KOANDRO.COM/Kun Shan University Arts/LITTLE RAYMOND/Mansion Co., LTD./Mario Sabljak

Design/Martin&Ocean/MATATABI/mk/my niJi/neurowear/noconoco/NTT Docomo Inc./

Originovelty/Picture Finders Ltd,./PLANT COMMUNICATOR「PIXI」、LIGHTING CANDY/POS+/

POTPURRI/PYRA/QuaintDesign/ROOTOTE/Sa'Bella design/sacamo/SCHEMA/Southern Taiwan

University of Science and Technology LINCHIA-CHUN Design Studio/sparkloud/studio Fumor/tente

/TiCTAC/TOKYO TRADING/TWOTONE/Yumiko Itoyama

CHINTAI×DESIGN ASSOCIATION

<<TOKYO MERRY-GO-ROUND>> by ASAMI KIYOKAWA

The Japanese style “Merry-Go-Round” produced by Asami Kiyokawa in collaboration with various

creators are expressed in a new Japanese style of image where products full of fantasy and sparkling

motion videos merge.

This noteworthy MERRY-GO-ROUND was / is only been shown to public in Milan Salone and London

Design Festival so don’t forget to check the first time ever shown in Japan

Produced by: Asami Koyokawa

(Artist)

Production: Naoki Kawamoto

(Product Designer), Keiichiro

Terauchi (Merry-Go-Round Artist)

Movie by: WOW, Synaptic Design

Inc.

Performance: PIPPI

Costumes: Koshiro Ebata (Fashion

Designer)

Super Material Exhibition (Special Exhibition)

The perfect construction materials can be found at this exhibition.

Okamura Corporation/ Dai Nippon Printing Co.,Ltd. /TTN Corporation/ Toyo Stainless Polish Industry

Co.,Ltd &Nihon Teppan Co.,Ltd/Toppan Cosmo Inc,

Super Renovation Exhibition (Special Exhibition) With the cooperation of Residential Renovation Promotion Council, new ideas on renovations are

suggested. Fascinating and interesting ideas attract visitors with on renovating homes.

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Super Robot Exhibition

Don’t miss the cool and first Crowd Funded Project at Tokyo Designers Week. The latest robots are exhibited letting visitors see new techonology and designs. Support us financially and you have the chance to meet robot creators at “ROBOT NIGHT”. Robot Forums with performances and workshops are also held. <Participating Creators> A-Lab/ Tomotaka Takahashi/ Maywa Denki/ Noriko Yamaguchi and more

Container Exhibition At this very popular exhibition, visitors can enjoy installations, media art exhibited in cargo containers.

<Exhibiting Companies>

CHINTAI Corporation/DRAFT/Pyramid Film Quadra Inc./ Tama Art University/Tohokushinsha Film

Corporation/YKBX

<CHINTAI Corporation and Artist Container Exhibition>

YOY/KAPPES/C−DEPOT/Masakazu Shirane+Saya Miyazaki/Toshitaka Mochizuki/Leonard Wong/

Koshiro Ebata/Yoichi Ochiai and others

TDW ART FAIR

Tagboat and Design Association collaborate and organize the “TDW

Art Fair”. Visitors can enjoy seeing and purchasing art works from

about 100 artists.

Handmade Market

With the collaboration of “Creema”, the platform for creators to sell their handmade products, the TDW

Handmade Market is held again. This time, it is held outdoors in a marche style. Handmade and

High-quality items can be purchased here.

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designboom mart TOKYO 2014 “designboom mart” has been held for a decade in TDW and has now

become one of the very popular programs. The Italian Design

website, “designboom” selects creators from all over the world.

Visitors can purchase the works of these creators while having

face-to-face conversations.

Future-Lab TOHOKU (Special Exhibition)

Future-Lab Tohoku; a project of Forming International Points of Communication

for Arts and Culture supported by the Agency for the Cultural Affairs (Japan) in

2013 and 2014, holds its special exhibition at this year’s TDW. This creative project

supports the Tohoku area (the affected area by the Great East Japan Earthquake)

through the power of art, music and design. In this special exhibition at the TDW Main Venue, famous

creators from around the world have their workshops and exhibitions.

<Participating Creators>

Vik Muniz (artist), Chris Wainwright (University of the Arts London), Robin Jenkins (designer), Cathy

Milliken (music educationalist)

着物×きもの×KIMONO Exhibition

『着物×きもの×KIMONO』-- a project which aims to preserve and

promote Japanese KIMONO for the future. Top creators from different

genres exhibit their work bringing new possibilities and sustainability

to kimono.

<Participating Creators>

Toshiyuki Inoko (teamLab), HDMI (Media Art Unit), Asami Kiyokawa

(Artist), Junko Koshino (Fashion designer), Masaya Kushino (Fashion designer), Tamae Hirokawa

Creative Director / Fashion designer), Yasuhiro Mihara (Fashion designer), Ross Lovegrove (Product

designer)

<Special Cooperation>

Melco Crown Entertainment

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TDW Dome Events

In this Special Dome at TDW Main Venue, various events such as

music, forums and talk shows are held. Programs

・Ikue Asazaki

Singer from the Amami Island songs (songs which were traditionally

sung in the Amami Islands for more than 1,000 years). Her deep

voice moves all people regardless of their generation and nationality. Special guests also appear on

stage.

・The Genius Expo

Organized by Design Association×Homeless Mr. Kotani

MC: Akihiro Nishino (Kingkong - entertainer)

Don’t miss the opportunity to see and listen to geniuses with great talents.

Young entertainers from Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd. and not only, creators and specialists from different

fields let visitors have great time at TDW Dome!

・PechaKucha Night

PechaKucha Night began with Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham Architects). With 20 slides

shown to us in 20 seconds (6 minutes 40 seconds); everyone loves these presentations! Nowadays,

more than 700 cities hold this event.

TDW Dome Events

日程 午後 夜

25 Oct 2014 Sat Creative FeS Genius Expo(12:00~21:00)

26 Oct 2014 Sun Creative FeS Genius Expo(12:00~21:00)

27 Oct 2014 Mon Architecture Forum(13:00~16:00)

28 Oct 2014 Tue Architecture Forum(13:00~16:00)

29 Oct 2014 Wed PechaKucha Night(19:30~22:00)

30 Oct 2014 Thu ・ASIA AWARDS Final Screening

・Awarding Ceremony

31 Oct 2014 Fri J-WAVE Halloween Party

1 Nov 2014 Sat Creative FeS Genius Expo (12:00~21:00)

2 Nov 2014 Sun Creative FeS Genius Expo (12:00~21:00)

3 Nov 2014 Mon RED-U35 Awarding Ceremony

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Workshops

Various workshops are held by students and creators during TDW. Visitors can enjoy the experience of

“creating”

<Programs>

・Architecture Exercises

・Workshops held by Professional Creators

・Workshops held by students from more than 30 schools

SHOP ART WALK This year’s Tokyo Designers Week will connect shops, cafes and galleries in Tokyo,

making it an even more creative city! Purchasable works of young modern artists

will be exhibited at 100 shops, cafes and galleries.

Furthermore, visitors can collect stamps placed in each shop and get wonderful

gifts. (By lot)

<Exhibiting Artists> Fumiaki Akahane, Naoki Ishikawa, Mio Ebisu, Shunsuke Kano, Hitoshi Kuriyama, Yosuke Kobashi, Harumichi Saito, Sakurako Hamaguchi, Tsutomu Yamamoto, Yutaka Watanabe, asato, Colliu, FUJIKAYO, ni_ka and others… <Coordinated by> Island JAPAN co., Ltd.; Tagboat [In cooperation with] Bambinart gallery、GALLERY OUT of PLACE、Maki Fine Arts、GALLERY MoMo、MIZUMA ART GALLERY、SCAI THE BATHHOUSE、WATARI-UM <Participating Shops>

(Roppongi)

IMA CONCEPT STORE/ Gallery Ma/ Embassy of Spain/ ligne roset

(Harajuku / Omotesando / Aoyama)

Architect Café Aoyama/ Actus Aoyama/ agnes be Aoyama/ ART-U room/ Afternoon Tea Tea Stand

Omotesando/ ifs Future Laboratory WORK WORK SHOP/ Ultra Super New Gallery/ On Sundays/ Café

Shakey’s/ Restaurant & Café Green Cress/ Carre MOJI/ gleen natural store Tokyo/ crisscross/ Sangria

Aoyama/ THE ROASTERY/ Cinnamon’s Restaurant Omotesando/ JINS Harjuku/ SLEEPSELECT Aoyama/

Design Festa Gallery/ NIESSING TOKYO/ Hasselblad Japan Gallery/ Four Nines Aoyama/ FLANNEL SOFA

Tokyo Showroom/ PRISMIC GALLERY/ Pretty Ballerinas AOYAMA/ flor MARIPOSA/ BOING/ BoConcept

Minami Aoyama/ Embassy of the Republic of Poland/ magniflex/ MAISON ABLE/ MoMa Design Store/

La Boutique Junko Koshino/ Life Creation Space Ove/ Renovation Expo Japan 2014 the SAD CAFÉ/

Lloyds Antiques Aoyama

(Shibuya)

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yinega/ coutume/ GONTRAN CHERRIER/ Seibu & Sogo SHIBUYA/ dolci café SILKREAM/ PARCO

GALLERY X/ PARCO MUSEUM/ 8/hikarie/ MONKEY GALLERY

(Ginza and Nihonbashi)

ART FOR THOUGHT/ O Gallery/ GAT CAFÉ/ K.ITOYA/ Ginza Yanagi Gallery/ goozcafe/ GALLERY

KOBAYASHI/ Ginza Sagamiya/ the snack/ Ginza Jansem Gallery/ Shihoudo Garou Gallery/ Hibiya

Simmons Gallery/ NOEVIR Ginza Gallery/ NORTHERN TERRACE DINER TOKYO/ ArchitectS Office/ AGC

studio/ NIHONBASHI CAFEST/ FUKUMORI Bakurocho/ work×shop noya op

(Shinjuku)

Gallery Shinjuku

(Ebisu+Nakameguro)

ASPLUND/ ateliers PENELOPE

(Akasaka)

Sangetsu Tokyo Showroom/ PVC Design Award/ WORKAHOLIC

■TOKYO DESIGNERS WEEK 2014 Satellite Official Exhibition “Oh! Furoshiki Exhibition”

Dates : Oct. 21st 2014 ~ Nov. 3rd Venue: Sogo Seibu Department Store Building A 7th floor Organized by: Seibu Shibuya In cooperation with: Design Association NPO, MUSUBI by Yamada Sen-I Co., Ltd.

<Participating Creators>

Airside Nippon/ Chan Hwee Chong/Akihiro NISHINO/ Eisuke TACHIKAWA/Fantasista UTAMARO/ fla & boo/ Gu Lei/

Jaime HAYON / JUN OSON/Karim RASHID/Kashiwa SATO/Katsumi ASABA /Kazuhiko OKUSHITA/Koshiro EBATA/Ma

YANSONG/Marcel WANDERS/Masaya KUSHINO/Momoko ANNO/Piero LISSONI/Rukkit KUANHAWATE/Sebastian

MASUDA/takcom/Taku SATOH/Tamae HIROKAWA/ teamLab/ Terawat TEANKAPRASITH/Tomoe SHINOHARA/Toshiyuki

KITA/Tsuguya INOUE/ WOW/ Yasuo TANAKA/

<Inquiries>

DESIGN ASSOCIATION NPO International Office Luana Matei・Rion Ando・Erika Yanagi http://www.tdwa.com/

TEL:03-3470-7699・080-3550-7699 FAX:03-3470-7705

MAIL:[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]