Designers, buyers, manufacturers, press, and other professionals in the design industry from all over the world gather at DesignTide. Join us at DesignTide, where new opportunities and connections are born!
DesignTide07 outline>>

Download general outlines and entry sheet for participation：

Download of DesignTide 07general outlines for participation (PDF 2.4MB) >>

Download of the entry form of Tide Exhibition>>
Download of the entry form of Tide Market>>
Download of the entry form of Tide Extension>>

Steps of participation ：

1) Download general outlines. Choose contents Please decide which part of DesignTide you would like to take part in: Tide Exhibition / Tide 'Super' Market / Tide Extension

2) Send it with images (photo/illustration) of your works by email to:
　　　　　　　　　　　　
or by post to 1-1-3-1F Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0001 Japan

Entry deadline：

First entry: March 15th - May 31st／Second entry: June 1st - June 29st

※ Due to limited space, there will be a screening for participation.

DesignTide News 2007

Includes general information about DesignTide, and specific information related to the 2007 events, this newspaper has been made to express the theme of this year’s DesignTide, 'PLAY.'
Each copy has an attached game which was created by designers. These are fun games that involve cutting, folding, and drawing. There are 3 kinds of games; 'WELCOME! POODLE HOUSE' by Midori Araki, 'Make a Safari!' by Donny Grafiks, 'PLAY→プレイ('PLAY' in Japanese)' by Dainippon Type Organization.

'DesignTide News 2007' will be available at;
Souvenir from Tokyo by CIBONE(The National Art Center, Tokyo), Mori Art Museum, CIBONE AOYAMA, TIME & STYLE, SEMPRE, WISE・WISE, ZERO FIRST DESIGN, Spiral, TSUTAYA TOKYO ROPPONGI, and more places in Tokyo.
It will be available in Shanghai, Milan and London.

Download of DesignTide News 2007！ (5MB) >>

DesignTide is back! Please come and join our kick-off event !

Date: March 15th (thu) 　
18:00 open 19:00 start

(the show will be finished by 21:00, but the bar will be open till late as usual.)

Location: Super Deluxe >>Map

Entrance fee: 1,000yen (1 drink)

DesignTide is happy to announce its third series of annual events and exhibitions to be held this year from October 31 to November 4.
DesignTide will have a kick-off event on March 15th @ Super Deluxe, to celebrate the launch of DesignTide in Tokyo 2007 and the release of a brand-new free paper called 'DesignTide News 2007'.

Event Program:

18:00 - Open / Bar Time

19:00 - Information about DesignTide in Tokyo 2007

To welcome all the people who are wondering what's going to happen this autumn @ DesignTide! We will explain the contents of the event, and how to take part in it.

19:20 -Tide Talk - a talk session by the DesignTide team.

Looking back over last year's DesignTide with photos, each person will speak about their experiences and the highlights of last year’s DesignTide. We will also talk about how we came up with this year’s theme “PLAY”, and what this word means to us, along with the kind of projects we want to create around this theme. We will share ideas and invite you to join this year's DesignTide.

20:00 -Beer Break

20:20-PechaKucha Night -

KDa's renowned monthly event. This will be a mini version of PechaKucha. The presenters will be;
-Dainippon Type Organization
-Noto-fusai
-f.a.t
-PingMag
-Klein Dytham Architecture
MC: Tom & Uleshka from PingMag

21:00 - Bar Time

22:00 - the event will be finished, but the bar will be open

Plus, designers from DesignTide 2006 and other people from the design & art field (around 300 people!) will come and see our event! So, please don't miss it!

Designers and Manufacturers and Shops Wanted!>>

(Download general outlines and entry sheet for participation)

What's DesignTide?

"What you REALLY need."

DesignTide is an event that creates new opportunities for up and coming designers and manufacturers.

In its third year under the theme "What you REALLY need", DesignTide participants will produce unique exhibit spaces focused in product design, interior design, furniture, graphics, fashion, and art.

DesignTide aims to resonate in people's hearts by connecting designers, manufacturers, press, and buyers gathered from around the world for one week in Tokyo every autumn, helping creative work grow into businesses.

Outline of the event

■ Date : 31th October (wed) 〜4th November (sun), 2007
■ Area : Aoyama,Harajuku,Shibuya,Roppongi , Tokyo
■ Main Site: "An undisclosed building" in one of the areas listed above.
■ Extension Sites: 30-50 interior shops, galleries, cafes, restaurants, and musuems in the areas listed above.

DesignTide in Tokyo 2007 Main Theme "Play"

「PLAY」

For this year's main theme, DesignTide came upon the word "PLAY", born out of the sheer air of excitement at last year's DT.

More than proposing new ideas,
more than pursuing style.
Something to get wild about,
something that's pure fun, that can't be explained by logic,
and something that awakens new emotions and energy in all of us.

Herein lies the next answer to our central question, "what we REALLY need".

We dream of everyone's "PLAY" descending onto the grounds of DesignTide this autumn in harmony,
to be enjoyed till your heart's content.

DesignTide in Tokyo 2007: Program

Tide Think:

Tide Think will feature designs from all kinds of creators, based on this year's main theme "PLAY". This project will bring forth new communication by allowing everyone to share their own unique form of "PLAY".

Tide Exhibition：

This is the main attraction of the main site, where designers, manufacturers, press, and buyers will gather from all over the world to create fertile ground for new opportunities and connections.
Up and coming designers and manufacturers in the fields of product design, interior design, and art from different countries will produce their own exhibit space. 53 designers from 11 countries participated last year, and we will follow this year with a Tide Exhibition overflowing with energy.
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Tide 'Super' Market:

Designers will set up shop at Tide Market, offering you the chance to talk about the work with the designers themselves. These memorable encounters transform material objects into objects of affection that enrich your daily life. 30 groups participated last year. Acting as the main site's museum shop, Tide Market will open its doors once more with even more momentum.
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Tide Extension:

Works will be displayed in shops, galleries, and cafes in the Aoyama, Harajuku, Roppongi areas. Designers and shops will produce their own installations, filling the town with new possibilities and discoveries of design.
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Party & Event:

Something exciting is always going on at DesignTide: events that feature designers, workshops open to the public, and a selection of parties every night, with designers from around the world and professionals from various fields.
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Thank you for your support and friendship in 2006!
Holiday Schedule:
28th/dec/2006 > 3th/jan/2005

We wish you have a very happy and peaceful new year.

We put interviews of designers on the TideAudio page.


DesignTide interviewed about 32 designers. About their works, you can know how the designers think of and result in the designs.

Tide Audio Page >>
Tide Audio 2006 >>

We put many pictures of the event on Flickr web site.

Tide Photo Album >>

DesignTide 2006 was not only launched in the Main Site using a vacant building in Harajuku. Thirty other places around Aoyama (most shops and galleries) welcomed the event. Five days of successful exhibitions!

↑(Left) TIME & STYLE - Jean-Marie MASSAUD New collection 2006
(Right) Exhibition Cafe - Patrick Chia (Singapore)

↑Omotesando Hills Multipurpose Space - "Design Trade Show BLICKFANG".
Usually in Zurich, Vienne and Stuttgart, it took place in Tokyo for the first time. Around fourty designers sold theirs own products to visitors. A successful meeting point!

↑(Left) LIGHT BOX STUDIO AOYAMA 2F. (Right) Art-U room. Anthony Kleinepier / TTTVO

↑Cibone's crowded party!

↑"The taste of my skin" all copyrights Virginie Lavey. LV Hall Louis Vuitton. Photo by KENZABURO FUKUHARA.

↑(Left) "Booster Swicth 06" at THE GLASS Showroom. (Right) "No Name" at Lloyd's Antiques Aoyama.

↑(Left) "2"+"White" at GALLERY ES. (Right) co-lab sanbancho at GLASSAREA AOYAMA

↑Pacific Garden party at UN HOUSE (United Nation University). Projection of the peace logo and Hula dance performance in the backyard.

↑All shops and galleries that welcomed DesignTide's exhibitions made their own creative signs with a "＿＿＿” & PEACE tape！

↑"＿＿＿ & PEACE " message by Virginie Lavey! (The taste of my skin)

photo by momoko japan/Fuji Furusawa
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Thanks a lot for your visit. It was the last report of DesignTide 2006.
We will soon put more photos. Keep checking the website!

Let's report the Opening party and the main events of DesignTide 2006!

↑Opening Party, 10/31. Outside view of the main site.

↑Mama Milk 's music live cession and "Nihon Buyo" show (japanese traditional dance).Two thousand guests came to the three hours DesignTide Opening Party!

↑Pecha Kucha Night. Twenty designers who exhibited in DesignTide introduced their works to the public. For more pictures click here

↑FREITAG organised a F-CUT LIVE workshop in DesignTide. Daniel is one of the two brothers who launched the brand in Switzerland. On the right picture, he is showing to the visitors how they can make a bag by themselves.

↑ tt talk (Treasure trash talk show). Several designers discussing on the concept "trash & peace"

↑ Tide exhibition. With the support of the British Council, the designers Max Lamb, Gen Suzuki and Philip Worthington are talking about their studies in UK and their works.

↑(left）Live radio program " MODAISTA" ( J-WAVE japanese radio station) with Andrea Pompilio.
↑(right）Talk cession organised by Kitayama & Company about "Energy Link & DesignTide" . Navigator: Midori Araki (artist) / Guests: Ken Hasebe (member of the Shibuya Ward Assembly) and Naoki Sato (ASYLE DESIGN)

↑"＿＿＿”＆PEACE. In the main site, visitors expressed their selves by writing their own peace message on t-shirts.

↑To remind all messages, DesignTide took a picture of each!

photo by momoko japan/Fuji Furusawa/Saburo Ehara
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Next report: Tide Extension. Coming soon!

'Tide Market'. A market ran by the designers themselves.

↑Around twenty stands in the all Tide market where visitors were able to meet the designers personally and buy exclusive products as a souvenir.

↑(left) "Shikisai" is a T-shirt brand launched by the designer duo Noto-Fusai that explores the possibilities of T-shirt design using only white T-shirts and black prints. They use familiar motifs such as blind curtains, plugs and sneakers, and giving pleasant surprises to those who wear them or see them worn.

↑（right）Sweet stuffed- toys by Nicole Noack, designer based in Hamburg and introduced for the first time in Japan. We probably feel attached to them because they are made of familiar material "socks". Each piece has its own unique character since they are all handmade.

↑ "HARVEST" accessories are made from broken or old skateboard decks. This cute brooch with a flower and a heart is also made from a deck. These are the art accessories of skateboards beyond skating.

↑col*or alias Rodja & Colin. During Tide Market Rodia & Colin asked the visitors to pick up a T-shirt and print their favorite graphics on it. Was the stand supposed to be an hospital?!

↑（left）Asao Tokolo focuses on creating patterns in the fields of art, architecture, design. He has worked on the projects theme "to connect". This magnet which looks like pieces of a puzzle is the outcome of his attempt to create a new Japanese arabesque pattern.

↑（right）A wirst watch brand NOOKA, launched by the artist/designer Matthew Waldman. On the picture he's wearing one of the New Collection's watches he designed especially for DesignTide! He was the best seller in Tide Market! Congratulations!

photo by Fuji Furusawa/Saburo Ehara
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Next report: Opening party and events

Upon entering the main venue, we could find a very important exhibition of this DesignTide in Tokyo 2006: The Treasured Trash. About thirty diverse designers and teams collaborated under a happy and stimulus theme of fusing trash, recycling and ecology design. Designing for a sustainable world...

↑Treasured trash exhibition

↑From the street you can see the message "See you again", written on the bags. This saying is inspired by garbage to be used after acts of consumption. Abandonment is never the last parting.The bags are distributed by GAS AS INTERFACE.

↑"Tide Chandelier" by Stuart Haygarth. He started his current design project two years ago, collecting all kinds of refuse and using this to recreate something new so giving these items a new life and a new meaning.

↑Pictogram designed by Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Donny Grafiks). He wants to create the new standard pictogram for the teash / resource box.

↑"Ofuruyama / mountain of used clothes " by Chie Morimoto + Yuta Iguchi featuring Nana Ishikawa. Countless articles of used clothing piled up. One by one, life is gradually breathed into them. The used clothes (= ofuru) become monkeys (= osaru).

↑LOVVER SOLE BOY made with old sneakers. By Kaname Okajima.

↑Maris Mezulis. Setting things in motion on ten screens, he gets us thinking about the 3Rs, life cycles and the value of objects.

↑Atsushi Toyama's painted tumblers. The Treasured Trash catalog. The cover page was designed by Paul Davis.

↑Kioshi Kuroda. Live painting show in the "smoking garden".

↑"Atsushi Toyama + ASYL CRACK live paint show=3"

↑Atsumi Toyama's live painting.
He paints first on paper, then cuts pieces to put them on the tumblers.

photo by momoko japan / Fuji Furusawa
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"treasured trash" is being exhibited at CET06 (Central East Tokyo 2006) from 11/23 to 12/3

For more information:http://www.centraleasttokyo.com/06/

Coming soon: report of "Tide Market"

"Design" & PEACE was the theme of the main exhibition site. In the first report, we invite you to discover the designers' "... & Peace" messages!

↑Max Lamb graduated from RCA in London. Inspired by sea and nature, he likes to mix traditional and contemporary technology. The process of making things is very important for him that's why he always shows both: furniture and process. His message: Make & PEACE!

↑→ Gen Suzuki also graduated from RCA in London.
Those are the designer's personal creation for sharing the daily emotional feelings and discoveries with his family and friends. Love & PEACE!

↑Shadow Monsters is an intuitive and magical experience for both young and old alike to play with body posture to create crazy narratives by Philip Worthington. The character appears from the participants, that each creates a rich environment. Play & PEACE!

↑Graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland, the five designers worked together for this exhibition.

↑Alternative wooden bricks made by Dainippon Type Organization who loves to play with letters. It is quite surprising to see Chinese characters and English words of the same meaning appear when designated parts are assembled together. A toy for imagination and creativity. Piece & PEACE !

↑MIDORIARAKI @ MAXRAY - "LIVING with PAHNTOM".
When switched on the light, it creates a sens of relief with the warm lighting and at the same time a false illusion by the shadow. Phantom or ghost loomed out on the ceiling catches your attention and makes you feel both pleasing and scared.

→"We wanted to change our observing points and tried wall-climbing training, which really changed our ways of looking at the townscape." On Wall was created by such an experience of the designers actually hanging on the wall. Figures of creatures on wall, are something you feel like touching. Can it be a part of the interior? Be functional? Be used as lighting? Here are the three designed walls.

↑Temple table, stool was inspired by the temples, woodcraft technique and traditional handicrafts Piet Hein Eek saw while visiting Japan. It is made without any metal binding

photo by momoko japan / Fuji Furusawa/Saburo Ehara
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We have more exhibitions to show you and we will soon update the website. Keep checking the news page！

Coming soon: report of "Treasured Trash"

Thank you very much to visit DesignTide during the 5 days of exhibitions. You were 50,000!
You will be able to view some pictures of the all event soon.

First issue will be about our main exhibition site.
Don't miss it!

The event is going to be closed at 17:00 today !

It's go till 9:00 at the DesignTide Main site !! Come over here !!

The sign of DesignTide in Tokyo Main Site !

The main venue of DesignTide in Tokyo 2006. A place where 53 creations tie together.
Each artists expressed the theme of "Design" & Peace. The fresh new peaceful messages that could be brought, only from a design.
Here we introduce a new standard from the bottom of our heart.

Designers showing here:

A market ran by the designers themselves.
It's a place where you can find something to get along together that may form a little part of your life.
Buy, and use. Maybe we can feel something after using-just cherish it. You're right. DesignTide in Tokyo 2006, is not only to see.

Designers showing here:

EVENT OUTLINE

Date ： 1-5 November 2006 31 October (opening celebration) Place ：an old building; Harajuku, Tokyo

CONTENTS

Tide Exhibition

The main exhibition of DesignTide in which links are made between each of the participating designers’ creations

Tide Market

A design market in which visitors may purchase original works by designers

treasured trash

Creating treasures from garbage, a designers’ action project for a sustainable Earth

Pecha Kucha Night

A special version of the popular Pecha Kucha Nights in which DesignTide’s participating designers give presentations

Tide Extension

Exhibitions that are held outside the To-Aru Building at various shops and galleries in the Aoyama district

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Tide Audio, a new service by Design Tide, enhances your virtual experience of design by providing you not only the photos of the designer's work, but also their own voice.

Listen to 28 designers as they talk about their new products in Milano Salone.Listen to the designers as their talk about the concepts of their current work, design philosophy, and sometimes, vision for the business in design.

Designers include:Shin Azumi, Studio Job, Tom Dixon, El Ultimo Grito, Kunihiro Tsuji, Campana Brothers, Marcel Wanders, nendo, Michael Young.

Tide Audio in Milan
http://www.designtide.jp/en/tideaudio/milan.html

A book containing the collection of work from DesignTide held all around Tokyo's cosmopolitan areas last November is now available!

The hopes and messages of the participating designers, transcripts of their interviews and of course, plenty of photographs of their work have all been presented with a cutting-edge layout and comments from famous creators in different fields.

This bilingual book will bring the message of the Tokyo design scene to the world. DesignTide will make new connections between people and design by putting everything from the event into the book!

More details, this way