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Adding a completely new dimension to the world of typeface. Literally.‹Trajectories› is a typevolume family and its 'strata' of typefaces. The typevolume consists of alphabetic types wrapped in curvature continuous Class-A NURBS surface. It's never been easier to create a typeface by yourself. How can a type foundry make do in such an age of mechanical reproduction?I see possibilities in representing the pen trajectories in its wholeness. Why bother draw bold, regular, and light weights while you can represent all of them in one 3D typevolume definition? With the slick NURBS bodies that represents typevolume ‹Trajectories›, one can infinitely generate any fonts as a mere set of sections of the each alphabet volumes.

Trajectories.

A Typevolume. Previously TypBrep as in Boundary Representative of a Type. Contribution: 100% individual work for Morisawa Type Design Competition. Around 3 weeks. Oct 2014.

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Antlers. An Aircraft

Hexacopter structure redesign.Individual work as a part of group works of a joint project of design management lab in collaboration with Nonami Lab, Chiba U.

Contribution: one of the design proposals among around twenty other design proposals.Basic dimensions and configurations are based on the original hexacopter. Measuring current ‘mini surveyor’ model and 3d model for base line drawings. The hexacopters in question were build mainly for hobby use, and thus fragile, not well-balanced with lengthy spaghetti cords. These mildy ugly drones were expected to be redesigned with better aerodynamics, preferrebly with guards around propellers. Easier replacement of components in not-so-rare- occasions of poor landings. Distinguishable fron and rear ends of the body for better visual distinction of its direction

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Infinite Surface.

A Glasgow School of Art product design course project. A part of group works.

Individual work (extracted). 2 weeks.

Infinite Surface provides you with an unlimited plane to walk or run on. With rigid and fast omnidirectional treadmill inside, Infinite Surface lets you move freely not only in one direction but to turn around and start walking in the completely different direction without leaving the place for just one step off.

Infinite Surface grasps you: your position, your direction, your speed, everything. In real time. Turn around swiftly, Unexpectedly stop or start moving, and the Surface follows you, keeping you on this tiny little rectangle all the time.

Wear any kind of stereo-head mount display that supports SyncSurf ™, and now you are in the virtual 2D spaces such as 3D Google Street View, FPS games, and 3D CAD modelling to name just a few. Motion sensing input device recognizes your posture in 3D scanning algorithm and then feeds the data back to

the linked Infinite Surface.

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A refridgerator. A concept design.

Contribution: concept, product, modeling , gestures, renderings, pretty much everything. As a part of works done in a group of two Chinese and I. Icons, logos and

some of the textures were done by the other members.

The concept was developed for the premium brand, Casarte, of the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer electronics, Haier. Joint workshop with Dalian University of Technology. The design requirement was a concept design of premium refridgerators. Our approach was to import Carsten Nicolai’s 2015 work ‘chroma actor’ in Shibuya directly to facade of refridgerator. Although LED lights are so popular in the cities of China, the raster of LED lights act as both display and lighting elements. In addition to that, gesture control enables full control over hands-free opening and closing of

chamber doors and changing display options.

A 10 day work. Nov 2015.

Cold Blood.

A wearable refridgerator. concept design. Contribution: 100% individual work, as a part of works done in a group of two Japanese and two Chinese. Joint workshop with Dalian University of Technology.

A 5 day work.

Nov 2015.

This quick project for chiba university hospital was aimed to propose a

design to wrap up tiny plant factory modules that chiba university has recently produced. Designed by the department of horticulture and the department of design science, this box-shaped mobile plant ‘factory’ is intended for rather non-agricultural facilities, such as university hospital in this case, to install. The wrapped up components are supposed to be placed in line to function as partitions for waiting rooms.]

The initial insight is to express anomaly : the disease, the injury, the uniqueness... The cause of being in a hospital. Slight, yet clearly distinctive distortion of the smooth shape represents the anomaly, .

This clearly addresses the core concept of this styling : an anomaly is never a curse. It may be inconvenient, may be harmful, may be damaging , and most likely would rather be avoided, but never a curse. It is essentially neutral. Placed the widely varied versions of the plant factory exterior implicitly create the diversity

The shape is smooth and tender so that it meets the atmospheric requirement. The whole equipment aimed to be a partition screen between hospital hall and waiting room, and mainly for children in pediatrics, it must be round enough to be safe even in rough use. The lights in the plant factory modules shine through the translucent material coloured in accordance to pluto, giving so much varieties to its appearance in 360-degree.

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Montblanc 320 fountain pen restoration.

2012-2013. Individual project. Product design, 3D printing.

Fountain pen in Japanese is called man(ten thousand)-nen(years)-hitsu(pen) which means that the pens are so robust that they remain ten thousand years. Montblanc‘s 70‘s products are infamous for its resin parts being so fragile after years.

The only reasonable way to prolong their life seemed to be producing a completely new body for her...and it seemed just so easy to 3d printer...Only to find out it wasn’t.

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The website itself has been there since my childhood, but the site designed by merely a junior highschool stundent was not satisfying enough for today’s information society. Considering the difference between today’s monitor size and specs for rendering the pages, the brand new web site was designed to serve

a better peek for the current readers and the furture readers.This project was not limited to just the web designs. A brief branding design for the author as envelopes she uses for her marketing was created based on the

concept of the web design using the same font and the same logo.

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conceptthe amount of students roughly decreased six ninth of the original plan. this design work starts from the idea of making effective use of a site that was planned to be a playground for the new keio elementary school that was dissociated fairly far away from the main classroom buildings. what would happen if keio changed its mind that tiny little playground should be occupied by a tiny little K-12 waldorf school that provides 12 grades=classrooms for approximately 30 students each?

backgroundalthough waldorf education has gained certain amount of reputation among the people who are pretty conscious of pedagogy, it still cannot be said to be well acknowledged in general. founded by rudolf steiner, an austrian philosopher, architect, and esotericist, supported by a manager of Waldorf Astoria tobacco division, waldorf education was one of the important discussions on my graduation thesis. in the thesis the influene of steiner’s architectural designs and principles upon waldorf education was discussed from the viewpoint of anthroposophy.

keio, on the other hand, was planning to found a school from primary through early secondary levels in aoba, yokohama, and conclusively scaled it down to merely an elementary school in an increasingly serious financial condition.

formthe form of the architecture was deeply inspired by organic architectures. what organic architecture here does not mean the frequent usage of free-form surfaces. one of the steiner’s fundamental principles, ‘architecture becomes human,‘ is strongly influencing the form of the architecture.

strategyyou might think that one classroom for each grades is too small for a k-12 school while ordinary waldorf school usually contains that small amount of students. it also adopts the popular waldorf school colouring strategy based on goethe’s chromatics and the gradually changing form of horizontal section of the classrooms as its grade advances, combined by japanese sense of space.

synthesisthe thesis concludes that steiner’s principles work as Corporate Identity for the entire community because the followers of his philosophy follow his art, then eventually they gain the identical identity in their own ways.i, who designed my graduation work based on his principles and design methods, am also one of the followers and the part of his vast Corporate/Community Identity’s branch.

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2. Research Method

In this thesis we analyse Steiner ’s architectura l design, corresponding principles and his design method, by extracting the key concepts from his works, including his published lectures and l iteratures . And then we analyse products by manufacturers fol lowing Steiner ’s principles as shown in f ig . 1-2.1 . Introduction

As manag ement of companies diverse, establ ishing a concurrent identity and imag e of the manufacturers , especia l ly those of the major corporations, is one of the most pressing needs for them. In this thesis we clarif y the direct connection of Steiner and his manufacturers in sense of principles and methods. After that , we point out the possibil ity of Rudolf Steiner ’s fol lowers’ way of establ ishing their concurrent identity and imag e to be a part of the answer.

Rudolf Steiner is unexpectedly unrecognised as a designer. Hig hly reg arded for his education system, commonly known as Waldorf education, he has a lso created masterpieces in various f ield of design, rang ing from his blackboard drawing , via pa inting s and sculpture, to architecture. But, his ar t and design tend to be diff icult to comprehend, mainly because they embody a ver y specific worldview, Anthroposophy.

1. Introduction

As manag ement of companies diverse, establ ishing a concurrent identity and imag e of the manufacturers , especia l ly those of the major corporations, is one of the most pressing needs for them. In this thesis we clarif y the direct connection of Steiner and his manufacturers in sense of principles and methods. After that , we point out the possibil ity of Rudolf Steiner ’s fol lowers’ way of establ ishing their concurrent identity and imag e to be a part of the answer.

Rudolf Steiner is unexpectedly unrecognised as a designer. Hig hly reg arded for his education system, commonly known as Waldorf education, he has a lso created masterpieces in various f ield of design, rang ing from his blackboard drawing , via pa inting s and sculpture, to architecture. But, his ar t and design tend to be diff icult to comprehend, mainly because they embody a ver y specific worldview, Anthroposophy.

2. Research Method

In this thesis we analyse Steiner ’s architectura l design, corresponding principles and his design method, by extracting the key concepts from his works, including his published lectures and l iteratures . And then we analyse products by manufacturers fol lowing Steiner ’s principles as shown in f ig . 1-2.

3 . Design Principles and Methods by Rudolf Steiner

While for Steiner, to do architecture in the same way as f ive years ag o was equal to g oing backwards for a centur y (Ag ematsu, 1974). Throug h an analysis of his architectura l principles and design methods, we developed and documented over twenty years of his architectura l career, shows that they establ ish a rig orous and consistent, systematic matrix , shown in fig . 3 . 4. The Design of Associated Manufacturers

Many manufacturers associated with Steiner have been fol lowing those principles, seeking fa ithful compliance with his broader philosophy. Design is not an exception. The fol lowers mainly refer to Steiner ’s architectura l design principles and methods, as exemplified in f ig 4.The matrix shows those direct relationships expl icitly, as wel l as that some of the principles and methods (eg . “House of Speech” and “Chromatics”) simply do not g et fol lowed because of the difference of the means of expression. It proves the clear relationships between the ancestor (Rudolf Steiner and his designs) and the descendant. In accordance with the principles and the methods, it is possible to compare any elements each other.5 . Discussion

This thesis identif ies clear f lows of inheritance of Steiner ’s principles and methods, ninety years af ter the construction of his Goetheanum.Moreover, that approach (which stretches the meaning of the word “style”) has an incredible feature : it evolves . Unlike other styles (such as Modernism, which has emerg ed at the same time as Steiner ’s) , Steiner ’s design g uidel ines are v proving capable to transfig ure themselves . Being truly human, and thus universa l , Steiner ’s principles and design methods g et adopted and are successful in design of a lmost any kind.

Steiner does not seem to have consciously intended his works to be the design sources . Sti l l we can feel a lmost the same feel ing from his works and the fol lowers’ works.Designing identity is one of the most cutting -edg e, important, profitable, and yet not accomplished field of design. While sometimes CI is even taken as a part of styl ing( Tanaka , 2000), however, idea l CI establ ishes clear, unique, yet f lexible identity of the corporation, which have been achieved by not so many companies around the world. Therefore the current methodolog y cannot be the answer for achieving it : on the contrar y, the answer is rig ht here in the thesis : the way Steiner created Anthroposophy and his works. What he achieved the best and only was synthesiz ing the cross-cutting designs. And so Anthroposophic design g oes throug h starting from shared principles via shared design methods to shared identity.

6. Project

The design part of this thesis shows how Steiner ’s process actual ly works. Adopting and applying as many of Steiner ’s principles, as directly as possible, we propose a Waldorf school in Yokohama as shown in f ig . 5 .

7. Conclusion

Because Steiner ’s ar t and design are not l imited to themselves, they establ ish a style. The fol lower ’s f ig uration process and materia l adoption have g a ined a recognisable, synthetic identity.In order to understand further than just discovering the descending influence on manufacturers , we have introduced CI, even thoug h the conventional idea of CI today is far, far away from Steiner ’s philosophy. Sti l l , being encourag ed by Steiner ’s idea “Always adapting (the ar ts) to the ( industria l ized ) rea l world ,” we took the risk to endang er the ar tistic Anthroposophy to the means of profitable manag ement strateg y.The research question was implicitly dominating the thesis : ‘how the manufacturers associated with Steiner achieve a synthesis of the designs ?‘ The answer is , with the design principles and methods by Rudolf Steiner, the manufacturers have accomplished concurrent identity that bonds them strong er than CI, more f lexible than CI, and more susta inable than CI.

8. Bibl iography

Ag ematsu, Yuji . Architecture as The Perspective of The World. 3rd Ed. , Sag ami Shobo, 1974, 335p.Ag ematsu, Yuji . 1998.3.25, Steiner Architektur : Und der Bau wird Mensch. Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo, 319p.Carlgren, Frans ; Grosse, Rudolf ; Weissert , Erns ; Kling borg , Arne. 1982, Erziehung zur Freiheit : dd. P�dag og ik Rudolf Steiners ; Bilder u . Berichte aus d. internat. Waldorfschulbeweg ung . Takahashi, Iwao ;Takahashi, Hiroko Trans. , Stuttg art , Verlag Freies Geistesleben, 210p.Deleuze, Gil les ; Guattari , Fel ix . 1980. Mil le Plateaux Capita l isme et Schizophr�nie, Paris , Les Editions de Minuit .Nakai , Hisao. 1982.2.15, Schizophrenia and Human. Tokyo, Tokyo University Publishing , 252p.Schuyt, Mike ; Elffers , Joost ; Ferg er, Peter. 1991.5 .20, Rudolf Steiner und seine Architektur. Nakamura , Shizuo, Trans. , 2nd ed. , Shubunsha ,192p. Orig inal published in K�ln, Du Mont Buchverlag , 1991.Steiner, Rudolf . 1957, Weg e zu einem neuen Bausti l . Ag ematsu, Yuji Trans. , Stuttg art , Freies Geisteleben, Sag amishobo, 272p.Steiner, Rudolf . 2005.8.31 , Steiner ’s Beautiful L ife : from Architecture to Garment and Lang uag e. Nishikawa , Takanori Trans. , Futohsha , 205pSteiner, Rudolf ; Oberhuber, Konrad ; Kug ler, Walter ; Pehnt, Wolfg ang . 1996.11 .30, RUDOLF STEINER BL ACK B OARD DR AWING S - WHEN E ARTH BECOMES MOON. Takahashi, Iwao, Trans. , Kug ler, Walter, Ed. , Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo, 154p.Tanaka , Yoh. Design Theor y. 2000.6.8, Tokyo, Iwanami Shobo, 149p.

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