Sensing Nature

Designer, Tokujin Yoshoika's, latest fine art piece 'Snow' is currently part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. The piece is absolutely beautiful. I wish i could see it in person.

Snow

But Snow is no fluke, Tokujin Yoshioka can hardly put a foot wrong when it comes to design.

Designer of The Year Exhibition for Miami Design

Martini Glass for Bombay Sapphire

Visual Merchandising for Hermes
(The face video is played on a loop and timed perfectly to interact with the scarf, being blown by a fan.)

Tokujin Yoshioka's site: http://www.tokujin.com/en/

" ! " Moments.

Nendo is a design company with offices in Milan and Tokyo. They dabble is everything from interior design and architecture to visual merchandising, from fine art to product and graphic design. Everything they do is simply amazing.

I love their concept statement:

"Giving people a small " ! " moment.
There are so many small " ! " moments hidden in our everyday.
But we don’t recognize them.
and even when we do recognize them,we tend to unconsciously reset our
minds and forget what we’ve seen.
But we believe these small " ! " moments are what make our days so
interesting, so rich.
That’s why we want to reconstitute the everyday by collecting and
reshaping them into something that’s easy to understand.
We’d like the people who’ve encountered Nendo’s designs to feel these
small " ! " moments intuitively.
That’s nendo’s job."

It so perfectly sums them up.

Here are some of my favorite things they've done

Meguro Office, Tokyo
MD.Net Mental Health Clinic, Tokyo

Baby Cafe, TokyoNendo's site: http://www.nendo.jp/en/