Japanese Design Today 100 <renewal version>

The product designs acts as a mirror that reflects our life style.
This exhibition introduces 89 designs for products created from 2010 onward, and other 11 postwar modern ones, in which we see the roots of contemporary design.

This traveling exhibition has ended.

Read an essay written by design critic Hiroshi Kashiwagi in Wochi Kochi Magazine

  • February 7 - March 5, 2023
    Museum for National Identity (MIN) (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
  • October 20 - November 19, 2022
    Paraguayan Japanese Center for the Development of Human Resources (Asuncion, Paraguay)
  • May 7 - June 26, 2022
    Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (Vancouver, Canada)
  • February 18 - March 11, 2022
    Museo de Historia del Arte (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Photo of Electric rice-cooker RC-10
Electric rice-cooker RC-10, 1995
Toshiba Corporation

Photo of lamp by IN-EI Issey MIYAKE
IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE
"MOGURA", 2010
MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO
Photo by Hiroshi Iwasaki

Photo of Nikon FM10
Nikon F, 1959
NIKON CORPORATION
© Nikon Corporation All rights reserved

Photo of bottle opener
Bottle Opener "Frame" "Crescent" "Eclipse" 2009
FUTAGAMI Co., Ltd.

Photo of Ishinomaki Bench
ISHINOMAKI BENCH, 2011
ISHINOMAKI LABORATORY
Photo by Yoshitsugu Fuminari

Photo of Shinkansen Series N700 Advanced
Shinkansen Series N700 Advanced, 2013
Central Japan Railway Company
Photo: Central Japan Railway Company

Photo of PePe chair
PePe chair, 2004
Miyazaki Chair Factory Co., Ltd.

Photo of airvase
airvase, 2010
KAMI NO KOUSAKUJO (Fukunaga-Print Co., Ltd.)
Photo by Satomi Tomita

Photo of Cowacca
Cowacca, 2008
Takahashi Kougei Inc.

Photo of prosthetic leg for athlete
Prosthetic leg for athlete
(below knee), since 2008
Beautiful Prosthetics Project
(Yamanaka Laboratory,
The University of Tokyo,
Yamanaka Design Laboratory,
Keio University)
Photo by Yukio Shimizu

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