Editorial
Prefecture Makes Perfect
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2024. Designers, technologists and artisans breathe new life into Japanese craft at the V&A How can centuries-old Japanese craft techniques be preserved for another hundred years? For Hideki Yoshimoto
People Power
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' and website in 2024. POoR Collective channels the youth of Wandsworth in a multifaceted show at an industrial icon "The ambition of all of our projects is to challenge what design is, what design can
How to Bring the Fun Back to Technology
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2023. For the last decade, the smartphone industry has been launching new models following the same formula. So how can you bring something fresh to this saturated and highly competitive market? That&
Step Into Sony Design’s New Virtual Reality
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2022. “Our role is not to create eccentric, one-off concepts just for the sake of it but, through the power of design, to envision new paradigms, give meaning to ideas and
Meet the Woodworkers of Hida Takayama
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2022. A great way to learn about other civilisations is through their material culture, and since its inception, Japan House London has been hosting exhibitions on exactly that. Its latest exhibition, '
Discover The World Of Mixed Reality
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2021. Last year, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s work was seen in non-physical form for the first time. This was thanks to production studio and technology developer Tin Drum who created
How Design Changed the Olympics Forever
This article was first published in the London Design Festival 'Red Book' (print) and website in 2021. The Tokyo 1964 Summer Olympic Games marked several world firsts. It was the first Olympics to be hosted in Asia, the first to feature an Olympic Torch Relay across the whole
Bringing Sanrio Puroland to Life with Adobe Illustrator on the iPad
This article was first published on the Adobe Blog in 2020. Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty are perhaps the most iconic global champions of kawaii culture. Kawaii (pronounced “kah-wah-eeeh”) is difficult to explain, but you know it when you see it. Although it’s often translated as