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Ben Wilson
Born in 1976. Studied at Manchester University for his undergraduate degree and went on to the Royal College of Art for his post graduate studies in design products. Major projects include "low rider bike" which has led to numerous transportation projects. The Tilting trike won the Lord Snowden prize. The "Figrig" an award winning product in collaboration with film director Mike Figgis, is manufactured by Manfrotto and has worldwide patents and distribution. "Chairfix," a self initiated product, resulted in collaborations with various companies, designers, and illustrators. In 2007, he designed and curated an exhibition for the London design museum to coincide with the start of the Tour de France.
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Dui Seid
Born in 1945 in the United States. Received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1968. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Europe, including the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Germany; the Folkwang Museum, Germany; the Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Conn., U.S.A.; the Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo; and at the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. His art reflects the increasing uncertainty and unease at the end of the modernism of the 20th century that once envisioned via engineering perfectible societies and un-afflicted perfect bodies. His base is now in New York.
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Dai Fujiwara ＋ ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room
After graduating from the Tama Art University with a degree in textile design, he joined the MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO in 1994, as a member of the ISSEY MIYAKE Paris Collection staff. He has been working with Issey Miyake since 1998 on the A-POC project. A-POC received the Good Design Grand Prize 2000. Fujiwara received the MAINICHI DESIGN AWARD 2003 for the "A-POC design." Dai Fujiwara has been appointed Creative Director of the ISSEY MIYAKE collections since October 2006.
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Masato Hatanaka
Born in 1975, Hatanaka is self-taught musician. He takes as a concept "haute couture sound" and has composed ballets, stage music, sound art and advertising music in countries throughout the world. In 2002 he moved to Germany where he was the first person ever to obtain a visa for composing from the state of Hamburg. He has received numerous awards for his work in ballet, collaborating with some of the finest dancers in the world. He returned to Japan in 2004 and began his pursuit of ideal sound environments, becoming news when he released his fusions of architecture, space and sound at the Milano Salone and at Tent London. He is highly regarded worldwide for his original techniques that give life to sound.
http://www.hatanakamasato.net/
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Yazou Hokama
Born 1948 on Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, Hokama set up a specialty coffee store called "Genten" in Okinawa City in 1979. Today, he also continues a hobby of kite-making, a passion he acquired when only a child, and stemming from his strong affection for the traditional kites of Yonaguni Island. Every year, he makes new kites for the New Year holiday and exhibits them at the studio of Jissei Omine, a ceramist in Yomitanson, Okinawa Prefecture. They caught the eye of visitors who came to the studio, which led eventually to this exhibition. Having met Masao Shimabukuro, the composer residing in Uruma City, Hokama's interests now extend to singing more than 80 pieces of Shimabukuro's original songs in order to introduce them to the world. In autumn 2008, he intends to sing at a concert to be held at Hibiki Hall of the Uruma City Theatre.
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Isamu Noguchi
Born 1904 in the United States. As an infant, he moved to Japan with his mother but at 14 moved back to the United States alone. After graduating from high school, he decided to become an artist and broadened his horizons by traveling throughout Asia and Europe. In his late 20s, he settled in New York and became involved in a wide range of artistic expression from portrait sculpture, set production, environmental sculpture, to landscape design. In 1969, he established a studio in Mure in the Kagawa Prefecture. In 1983, the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum was opened in New York. In 1988, at the age of 84, Noguchi died of heart failure. In 1999, the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan was opened in Mure. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the American National Medal of Arts in 1987 and the Kyoto Prize in 1986.
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Issey Miyake
Established the MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO in 1970, and presented his first collection in Paris, in 1973. Since the benginning of his career, Miyake's philosophy has been to construct garments from a single piece of fabric, and to explore the relationship between a three-dimensional form, such as the body, and two-dimensional one that is cloth. Miyake launched PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE in 1993, as clothing to suit the needs of a contemporary lifestyle and that combine functionality and beauty. In new project called A-POC(A Piece of Cloth) with Dai Fujiwara and a team of young designer, to challeng the way
in which clothing is made. At present, Fujiwara is the creative director for the ISSEY MIYAKE collection. In 2004 THE MIYAKE ISSEY FOUNDATION was established. Publications include ISSEY MIYAKE East Meets West(Heibonsha), and ISSEY MIYAKE MAKING THINGS(Actes Sub,Scalo, AXIS), etc.
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nendo(Oki Sato)
Established in Tokyo in 2002 by Oki Sato (born 1977 in Canada; MA in architecture from Waseda University). Other members: Koichiro Oniki, Haruka Misawa, Satoshi Yoshiizumi, and Akihiro Ito. Opened an office in Milan in 2005. nendo's design work ranges from architecture to interior, product and graphic design, and for clients in and outside Japan. They have been honored by the Milan International Furniture Fair's(Salone) Design Report Award Special Mention; the I.D. Annual Design Review's Best Product award; Germany's red dot award and Japan's Good Design Award, among others. In 2007, Newsweek magazine named nendo one of "The Top 100 Small Global Companies."
http://www.nendo.jp/
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Ron Arad
Born 1951 in Tel Aviv. Studied architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and at the Architectural Association School in London. After working briefly at an architectural office, he opened his own studio, One Off, in Covent Garden in 1981. The name was later changed to Ron Arad Associates. In addition to designs for major international furniture manufacturers, Arad has also had important architectural commissions, including the Holon Design Museum in Israel and the Upperworld Hotel at Battersea Power Station, London. Arad also teaches at the Royal College of Art, London.
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Koutarou Sekiguchi
Born 1983 in Maebashi City in the Gunma Prefecture. His father was a graphic artist and his mother, a teacher. He spent his childhood surrounded by professional wrestling, monsters and origami. When he was doing his school homework for the summer, his parents taught him how to make three-dimensional objects using newspaper and packing tape. In 2002, he entered the Sculpture Department of the Tama Art University, where he became a member of the Picture Book Production Research Group. In 2005, he participated in a three-person sculptural exhibition entitled, Mihaji. For his graduation project, he used newspaper and packing tape to produce Momentary Temple. After graduating, he started work in a private school in Tokyo for physically and intellectually disabled children. The artists he respects the most are Michael Jackson, Toru Narita and Takashi Muto.
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Born 1979 in the Shizuoka Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Design of the Tokyo Zokei University in 2001, then went to work at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Ever since his Globe Jungle Project 'Neighborhood Globe' installation (2001) which utilized a revolving jungle gym won the top 2001 NHK Digista Award, Suzuki has been invited to participate in many exhibitions and art festivals in Japan and abroad. He has also created a several pieces that utilize the phenomenon of afterimage. These include Blinking Leaves (2003), where leaf-shaped pieces of paper with images of an open eye on one side and a closed eye on the other "blink" as they rain down into the space, and Mizu no soshitsu (The makeup of water) (2005) that uses water with light and the oscillations of a rotating teardrop-shaped screen.
Photo © Frank Jackson, courtesy PaceWildenstein, NY
Tim Hawkinson
Born in 1960 in San Francisco. Received his MFA from UCLA in 1989. Based in Los Angeles, his work is an exploration of means of self-expression, and images of the human body. He is highly regarded for his investigations into time, the environment and our perceptions of self; and for his creative use of materials taken from daily life. In 2005, he had at a large solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum in New York and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and in 2007, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He has become one of the most visible artists in the United States.