Posted:Dec 4, 2012

Tokyo Designers Week 2012

A photo report on highlights from Tokyo’s top design event of the year

This year themed around the concepts of “house” and “play”, the city’s premiere showcase of new design — featuring both individual artists and major studios and corporations — stretched across multiple venues and sections, as well as satellite events like “Design Tide Tokyo 2012” and others held in Roppongi Midtown.

Photo: Rachel Carvosso


Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Docomo's wall of phone designs
Docomo's wall of phone designs
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Sou Fujimoto Architects' design for Beton Hala Waterfront Center
Sou Fujimoto Architects' design for Beton Hala Waterfront Center
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Photo: Rachel Carvosso

The refreshments counter
The refreshments counter
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama's 'Shi-an/meditation', a design for a hermitage-style room made of paper
Kiyoshi Sey Takeyama's 'Shi-an/meditation', a design for a hermitage-style room made of paper
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Kawada's popular nanoblock toys
Kawada's popular nanoblock toys
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

ekoD Works/Takuyuki Fukusawa's 'Hanaga Tap'
ekoD Works/Takuyuki Fukusawa's 'Hanaga Tap'
Photo: Rachel Carvosso
Shiho Sawada's 'Tricoter Cards'
Shiho Sawada's 'Tricoter Cards'
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

The Lexus Design Award area, one of the many sub-sections within the Meiji-Jingu Gaien event
The Lexus Design Award area, one of the many sub-sections within the Meiji-Jingu Gaien event
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

The outdoor School Exhibition section, featuring contributions from schools around Japan
The outdoor School Exhibition section, featuring contributions from schools around Japan
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Furniture design seen through a spider's web by Tomoaki Yoneta
Furniture design seen through a spider's web by Tomoaki Yoneta
Photo: Rachel Carvosso

Rachel Carvosso

Rachel Carvosso

Born in the year of the horse in upmarket Chelsea, she spent the majority of her childhood in rural Devon playing bows and arrows and making clothes for the fairies out of small flowers and shrubbery. Studying Art in Oxford she discovered a world of magic and mystery that inspired writers such as CS Lewis, Tolkien and more recently Phillip Pullman. Various roles have been assumed over the ensuing years - artist, teacher, social worker, writer. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and drawings and researching Environmental/Social Arts.