Many designers will be incorporating this year's theme “PLAY = COMMUNICATION” into works in many mediums including interactive art, workshops, and movies.
abake
born 2000 : Patrick Lacey, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl, Maki Suzuki =abake lives and work from London.
With Limb Typography, we go back to basics. We need a few arms to only communicate a letter. Please join us in telling a story. At this years Design Tide, we become the letter(s) at the audience request, by using our limbs. Come and witness the letters form on the canvas. You will be able to take a picture with you home!
http://www.kitsune.fr
assistant / Megumi Matsubara, Hiroi Ariyama
Founded by Megumi Matsubara, Hiroi Ariyama and Motohiro Sunouchi, assistant originally began as an interdisciplinary design practice in 2002. Free and liberated creation has been developed with assistant, through collaboration with various artists and clients from all countries.
The kitten has unraveled the ball of architecture. Or it is Goddess knitting ruins. Woven architecture fades into the sky to play a marionette in a timeless fairy tale.
exhibits: main building facade, "Tide Think" exhibition space scenography
http://www.withassistant.net
Bob Foundation
Bob Foundation is a creative group by Mitsunori Asakura and Hiromi Suzuki. They communicate, share and explore their interests with people through art work, design, film and anything else that present possibilities.
http://www.bobfoundation.com
Colin Schaelli
Colin Schaelli, born 1980 in Chur Switzerland, did his apprenticeship at Peter Zumthors office, and graduated as industrial designer. He has worked as a designer for Freitag for three years. In 2006 he set up his own Design Bureau in Zurich.
http://www.colinschaelli.com
Dainippon Type Organization
Formed by Hidechika and Tetsuya Tsukada in 1993. They are experimental typography performers who disarticulate or combine Japanese characters and alphabets into unique new typography.From KOKUYO, "TOYPOGRAPHY" -- A TOY of TYPOGRAPHY,now on sale!!
Using the letters that are scattered all over this large space, let's combine, align, stack, and fiddle around with them, in order to have fun making new letters! Go on a fontsy search for your true self!
http://dainippon.type.org/
FULGURO
Design studio Fulguro are Yves Fidalgo and Cedric Decroux. They joined forces while studying at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). They have worked across a range of disciplines including furniture, product and graphic design since 2001.
Throughout our career, we have been emphasizing the connection that man fosters with th evegetal in habitat. Several projects and researches such as the concepts reHOUSE, reHOUSE/BATH and VOLET VERT have been developed around this theme. We further pursue this reflection at this year’s SaloneSatellite during the Milan Furniture Fair 2007, presenting a collection of four objects : reLEAF, reCOVER, reFRESH and reFLECT.
http://www.fulguro.ch
Glmn
In 2001 The Museum of Modern Art listed Alexander Gelman among the “world’s most influential modern and contemporary artists in all media.” Gelman’s work, widely shown around the world, is part of private and public permanent collections.
http://glmn.com
Hannah Lobley
Creative Director. Paperwork, wood becomes paper becomes wood.
After accidentally leaving a book out in the rain, Hannah Lobley developed Paperwork, a unique recycling technique using the printed pages of unwanted books and paper. Paperwork is a very open and adaptable product appealing to many different areas of the market. Each product is a one off, unique item in which the distinct surface texture cannot be recreated. Why not have something beautiful created from a book or papers personal to you?
http://www.hl-web.net
Heath Nash
I studied Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. I then started working with light once I left art school - eventually fi nding old plastic bottles and wire (a typical South African craft material) an inspiration for my range called 'other people's rubbish'.
My work is exploratory - I try to explore and investigate materials for what they are. I love the nature of synthetic plastic bottles, and their relationship to light. I am also very interested in using age-old craft techniques to make contemporary objects. I have tended to use limitation as a tool in my work - by limiting myself to a specific material or technique for a period of time, I have found new and interesting ways to use that material.
http://www.heathnash.com
Kenichi Okada
Born in 1980. Moved to the UK after studied architecture in Japan. My aim is to design a trigger for creation by using several media such as films, products and installations. Finishing the Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Working as a toyman in the design group, atoyfactory.
Pixel Factory : By sliding a sheet with a printed, unrecognizable pattern, Pixel Factory converts this pattern into a pixel animation. It gives a funny experience to users by playing a digital animation with analog manipulation.
http://kenichiokada.com
Kenjiro Harigai (ANSWR)
Kenjiro Harigai was born 1977 in Gunma prefecture. He is an art director, film director, and graphic artist. He founded ADAPTER in 2003. In 2007, he founded the creative studio ANSWR.
http://www.adapter.jp
Maris Mezulis
Maris Mezulis is a photographer, filmmaker and graphic artist based in Tokyo. His works have appeared at exhibitions and events since 1997, and his pictures are frequently published in architecture & culture magazines.
http://www.marismezulis.com
Moritz Waldemeyer
The Pong Table is a dining table design that celebrates the early innovators in the field of personal computers and computer games. The table is made of corian and it has thousands of LEDs integrated in the table surface. Activated by two track pads it recreates the classic “Pong” game. When the game is not in use, none of the technology is visible just leaving the clean minimalist lines of the dining table.
The Pong Table is a dining table design that celebrates the early innovators in the field of personal computers and computer games. The table is made of Corian with aluminium legs and it has thousands of LEDs integrated in the table surface. Activated by two track pads it recreates the classic “Pong” game. When the game is not in use, none of the technology is visible just leaving the clean minimalist lines of the dining table.
http://www.waldemeyer.com
Piet Hein Eek
Piet Hein Eek gains inspiration from the materials and process's he works with, his designs are often handmade - a time consuming process which produces some very beautiful and highly original work.
Piet had the chance to develop his go kart design into an actual product when a client spotted his prototype and asked Piet to make a set for his 4 Grand children. Piet's go karts are a world of fun for children and adults alike and are defi nitely something to pass from one generation to the next.
http://www.pietheineek.nl
Roger Ibars
Born in Barcelona and graduated in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2003. Worked as researcher for MIT Medialab Europe in Dublin and for RCA Interaction design studio in London. Currently he collaborates with Sony Design Centre in Tokyo designing control devices.
The "Hard-wired devices" are a collection of vintage electronic devices -from 70s to 90s- in which two cultures of interface blend: the computer game culture and home electronics culture. The fi nal objects are unique and functional pieces that review three decades of electronics culture to point the direction of interaction design towards the fundamental values of play.
http://www.selfmadeobjects.net
Shantell Martin
Born in 1980, originally from London is an artist based in Tokyo. Shantell Martin focuses on her illustration, live drawing events and fashion collaborations.
The concept for Shantell Martins' illustration is an evolving black or white line. Shantell collaborates with designers, musicians, DJs and her audience to produce fresh, continually evolving art and design work that challenge, impress and inspire.
http://shantellmartin.com
Shingo Ohno (Merce Death)
I'm a creative director who makes web sites, movies, graphics, and also music. Awards: Cannes Cyber Lion, NY Festival, London International Advertising Awards, Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards.
http://www.mercedeath.com
TANAKA KATSUKI
Born 1966 in Osaka, Katsuki Tanaka is a manga author who debuted In 1985. His works include "Baka Drill" and "Ossu! Tonco chan."
http://www.kaerucafe.com/ka2ki
TOCHKA
TOCHKA is a creative team that acts by NagataTakeshi and Monno Kazue. They make animations, graphics and comics since 1998.
http://tochka.jp
Tom Tor (My Eskimo Friend)
Graduating from Art Center College of Design, TT has been recognized for many of his design works including The UN Award. His design experience covers a vast array of disciplines with a background that includes everything from print design, graphics to motion visuals.
http://www.tomtor.com
Vintage Plant
Vintage Plant, initiated by Byggstudio in Copenhergen, May 2006, is a network of second-hand plants and their life stories. We trade and exchange plants with history through markets held in different cities and countries. Each plant in the network is registered and presented in a web archive, www.vintageplant.net, where you can read about their past lives, owners, moves, health conditions etc. Many plants have
survived half a century or more and some have actually been through quite a lot - being thrown at ex-girlfriends in heavy fights or been moving through whole Scandinavia with a secret love affair in the baggage. In Europe house plants are natural part of our home interior. In difference to for example furniture the plants are living organisms, dependent on how their owners live and treat them. We seldom think of the plants as valuable, but they actually reflect our way of living and our family history by being passed on from generation to generation. Thus, the Vintage Plant project aims to give
the house plants some deserved recognition and is at the same time a way of telling the life stories of the people surrounding them.
http://www.vintageplant.net
WOW Inc.
From its bases in Sendai and Tokyo, WOW Inc. is primarily involved in the production of promotional videos, commercials and video installations. Going beyond mere design and direction work for its clients, WOW specialises in expressing the inexpressible.
http://www.w0w.co.jp
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Artist. Born in Shizuoka, Japan in 1979,
Blinking Leaves : When a leaf-shaped sheet of paper that has an open eye or a closed eye drawn on each side falls, the rolling motion creates an animation of a blinking eye. You can pick up the leaf sheets fallen on the ground, put them into the cylinder, and let the fan blow them out into the air again. In this exhibition, the cylinder represents the trunk of a tree.
http://www.mabataki.com
