There’s a quiet grace and overall restraint to Japanese design. Every item has intention, carefully crafted with materials designed to endure. “Japanese style is defined by a way of thinking rather ...

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Nearly a century of branding, advertising, and graphic art are showcased in a new exhibit celebrating Japanese designers. Japanese media has long been celebrated for its uniquely graphic visual ...

Post World War II, architects like Kenzo Tange pioneered a new blend of tradition with modernism, sparking the influential Metabolist movement of the 1960s that imagined cities as organic, adaptable ...

"In Japan, craft is not limited to, or exclusively, handmade. It is as much a mindset as a physical act," says American architect and writer Naomi Pollock in the introduction to “Japanese Design Since ...

At first glance, Japan and Scandinavia may not seem the most obvious pairing. Thousands of miles apart, they differ vastly in climate and culture. Yet a fusion of Japanese and Scandi design aesthetics ...

Tue, September 24, 2019 Published on Sep. 23, 2019 Published on 2019-09-23T21:39:16+07:00 he bottle of Japanese soy sauce Kikkoman may look simple, but it perfectly captures Japan’s great attention to ...

OVER THE PAST few years, the ubiquity of chilly digital screens in our lives—and the idea that you can tap, swipe and pinch-and-zoom your way to perfectly calibrated bliss—has led designers and their ...

The work of emerging designers shows a bold evolution in the national aesthetic. Dominic Lutyens finds out how and why change has come about. Coolly minimalist objects in muted hues made of natural ...

The work of emerging designers shows a bold evolution in the national aesthetic. Dominic Lutyens finds out how and why change has come about. Coolly minimalist objects in muted hues made of natural ...