T-shirts made from recycled polyester made from marine plastic waste are graphic printed with water collected from all over the world to visualize marine water pollution on Lithomas paper.
It is a graphic drawn by the water of the earth.
Vivid colors mean that the earth's water is dirty.
Art direction : Kouichi Okamoto (kyouei design / FIELD RECORD):
Music : Go Hiyama (ECHOES BREATH)
The past work of kouichi okamoto who is the designer of the kyouei design, will be published in "Art 1" in the middle school textbook for Reiwa 3rd edition. I am very honored!
Scheduled to be released in early April 2020
"FR-chair carbon triangle"
An ultra-light chair using three carbon poles in the chair frame
high chair : seat height 44cm / weight330g (packaging size W34cm x D8cm x H8cm)
low chair : seat height 25cm / weight 280g (packaging size W29cm x D8cm x H8cm)RAIN HAS BEEN A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND GUIDANCE FOR ARTISTS
Canada Goose embraces the intricate beauty of inclement weather for the launch of their new Nomad GORE-TEX collection.
Nothing quite says protection from the unpredictability of spring like the unparalleled waterproofing of GORE-TEX, making the engineering partnership between Canada Goose and GORE-TEX on the Nomad collection a natural choice. Rather than looking at wet weather as a natural threat, the collection takes the Japanese perspective that sees rain as a source of inspiration and guidance.
For the launch of the collection and its visual campaign, Canada Goose have connected with two Japanese artists to share their ideas on how rain and its three core elements - atmosphere, earth, and water - inform their work. First up is sound designer Kouichi Okamoto who captures the sound of the rain in its purest form, while calligraphy artist Aoi Yamaguchi traverses Tokyo's urban jungle to seek inspiration for her Shod performance.
Kouichi Okamoto designed the outdoor monument for the Yupiteru Corporation Shizuoka Research Institute which is for research and development of IT.IOT.AI.VR. Seen from one angle, it looks like five plates float against gravity.
THE CHAIRMAN design by Kouichi Okamoto will be exhibited from E&Y at Interior Lifestyle Tokyo.
Kouichi Okamoto who is a designer of Kyouei design established a new outdoor brand "field record".
The brand mark of the field record is depicted by his work which titled magnetic field record released in 2014.
He has been trying to form invisible phenomena such as gravity of the earth, atmospheric pressure, magnetic force, using various materials. It is his theme in many years.
To hope that various people will be engraved as rich memory the time spent on the field, our brand name "field record" was derived.
Bookmark light was selected for BMW i3 & i8 concept exhibition.
curated by luxoom
https://www.luxoom.com
The Bookmark Light will be exhibited at the Toyama Prefectural Art Museum Opening Exhibition "Art and Design to Interact with Materials"
We are so pleased to announce that Bookmark Light has been selected for "Special Mention"of Excellent Product Design in the internationally prestigious German Design Award 2017.
The German Design Award program is organized by the German Design Council in 2012, and has been held every year since then. This award program has gained an excellent public image for identifying and honoring unique designs from a communication and product design perspective. The awards consist of first-place "Gold" prizes, "Winner" awards that go to top-class products, and "Special Mention" prizes. This year, there were over 4,000 entries, with 758 entries coming from outside Germany. http://www.german-design-award.com/en.html Award ceremony and Exhibition Accompanying the award ceremony, all winners will be featured as part of the German Design Award - Excellent Product Design exhibition at the Frankfurt Fairgrounds. This event represents a further high light for the approximately 140,000 professional visitors attending Ambiente 2017.Gallery one: Unhidden Martina Copley | Nickk Hertzog | Kouichi Okamoto Lynette Smith | Naomi Troski | Elke Varga
Curated by Kali Michailidis Unhidden unites artists who use a variety of media to uncover a complex network of communication and understanding. In a world where Wikipedia and Google provide instant gratification for information and answers, Unhidden presents works that urge the viewer to consider how language, communication, and knowledge are exchanged and understood in contemporary society. Martina Copley's work annotates space and practice, while Nickk Hertzog plays with urban space and cultural production. Kouichi Okamoto transforms invisible forces such as gravity and magnetism into physical elements. Lynette Smith's installations are open-ended investigations in to how meaning is allocated to things and events. Naomi Troski's sculptural forms interact with and re-present space and light in new ways while Elke Varga explores colour's impact on space and experience. Unhidden is supported by The Japan Foundation, Sydney Kouichi Okamoto from Kyouei design will exhibit his art works -Liquid Tape Cutter Work-and -Endless Rain Record- at the Counihan Gallery "Unhidden". And he will join the artist and curator talk."Hyper Japanese" is an exhibition organized by the Esplanade as a part of "SUPER JAPAN - Japanese Festival of Arts" to celebrate Singapore and Japan's 50 years of diplomatic relations. Hyper-Japanesque brings 9 Japanese artists whose works are modern interpretations of traditional art forms like ceramics, printmaking, sculpting, drawing and painting. The exhibition studies how both countries, Japan and Singapore, are hyper-evolving countries with fast-developing economies that has influenced cultures and traditions that continue to change with the times.
Kouichi Okamoto's work "re rain" will exhibit in the group exhibition "hyper Japanesque". Participating Artists Yuki Hasegawa "steaming 01"(lithography) Akiko Ozasa "praparat series" (Acrylic on paper) Naoko Yoshimoto "Wing - Dedicated to E" (E's clothes, books, wood, glass) Mavashi Echigo "All is Fish That Comes to The Net" (Neon lights, steel frames, buckets, transformer, chains) Keiko Matsumoto Octopus/ Arabesque (Porcelain) Saya Irie "Dust series" (Eraser, banknote) Hiroko Masuko "Tyuhin Bonsai Yusi"(Pen, ink, paper, wooden panel ) Yuri Suzuki "Garden of Russolo" (Horns, wood) Kouichi Okamoto "Re-rain" (Umbrella, iron, speakers, speaker cables, MP3players) Exhibition title: "Hyper Japanesequ" (a part of "SUPER JAPAN - Japanese Festival of Arts" 13 May - 22 2016) Term:Thursday April 14 - Sunday July 2016 Venue: Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, L2 JENDELA visual arts space Organiser:Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Cooperation: POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. Co-curator: Jezlyn Tan(Esplanade), Mikiko Matsumoto(POLA MUSEUM ANNEX), Hisami Omori(Non-profit organization Hexaproject) Exhibition planning (producing/curation) & coordination: Hexaproject London Ltd.The organizers : Shizuoka University, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City Museum of Art. promote : the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The cultural art promotion business for which a university was utilized inqury :Shizuoka University Art management power upbringing business secretariat (c)megururi art shizuoka
Kouichi Okamoto from Kyouei design will exhibit his works -shape of electric transmission- at the SHOWCASE "stands". Also his sound work will be used in the space.
-from SHOWCASE press release- SHOWCASE "stands" We have been thinking to look out to works from various elds and to show them. is year, in 2015, the SHOWCASE will choose Japanese designers and artists once again and host the featured exhibition titled "stands". It shows their actions towards themselves and experiments, not just eras. We hope this place enhances the next situations, reforms and creates new trades of cultures and ideas. Tsuyoshi Matsuzawa / E&Y Co.,Ltd. Yu Yamada / method inc. Fumikazu Ohara / Soup Design EXHIBITORS : BEN NAGAOKA. DAIJIRO OHARA. HIRONOBU YAMABE. KOUICHI OKAMOTO. NAO TSUDA. RISA FUKUI. SHINYA AOTA. TOSHIYA MASUDA. VELO. WATARU KOMACHI. YOSHIKAZU YAMAGATA. YUKIHARU KUMAGAI.Kouichi Okamoto, Magnetic Field Record A suspended device recording and visualising earth's magnetic and gravitational forces into stunning drawings. Supported by ICN and co-presented by The Japan Foundation.
Today, the names Yuri Suzuki and Kouichi Okamoto have become synonymous as fusion artists who can freely cross the boundary between design and art. While both have worked in product design creating functional objects, each has been involved in music and sound projects and their practices have started leaning towards the pursuit of creative expression in the field of art. Bridging the gap between the two distinct domains, their work has been displayed in a number of institutions: UK-based Suzuki has collaborated with pop artist will.i.am on Barbican show Digital Revolution and Tate Britain for the exhibition JUKE BOX Meets TATE BRITAIN, whilst Japan-based Okamoto has exhibited at the V&A London as part of London Design Week 2012 and 2014. In this special talk, Suzuki and Okamoto, joined in conversation with Alex Coles, art critic and editor specialising in the interface between art, design and architecture, will discuss the reason behind their move beyond the design parameters of utilitarian products, reflecting on their own experiences within the creative industry. They will also expand on the differences in practice, approach and mind-set between design and art, and how this unique aspect of visual arts integration will evolve in the future. This event is free to attend but booking is essential. To reserve a place, please email your name and the title of the event you would like to attend to event@jpf.org.uk This event is organised in association with ICN gallery.
Kyouei design's products in JP Home
The installation "Liquid Tape Cutter Work" using the craft tapes by Kouichi Okamoto is performed in DIESEL.
Kouichi Okamoto`s latest works of 2013 are exhibited at (PLACE) by method as their first planned exhibition. the newest works will be exhibited as well.
Design is like a lense, but instead of light, it brings into focus various disciplines. From everyday life to hard sciences, it creates a new quality that redefines new functions. Volumetric expansion focuses bionics, technology, design and innovation, together shedding new light on the world of tomorrow. Our life is becoming ever more dynamic, while we once again embrace a nomadic lifestyle. Today, conquering new space takes on a new, broader meaning. Besides inhabiting new territories such as Mars, we must reinvent the old and familiar, expanding our living space through intelligent design. Volumetric expansion allows us to contain our individual worlds in a suitcase, and take them even to mars. This time this world is taken to a gallery in Berlin by Oskar Zieta and the Polish Institute. It is an interdisciplinary exhibition showing not just industrial design, but also creatures and organisms which present the inner workings and versatile functions which are possible with volumetric expansion.
BalloonLamp and some other products are elected and exhibited in this exhibition.
The Salone del Mobile events with the Design and Contemporary Art exhibition "Intorno al libro/Around the Book", curated by the architect Beppe Finessi (Politecnico di Milano).
After the vases of From Vase to Flower, the candles and candle holders of Shed Light, the Poldi
Pezzoli Museum and Inventario concentrate on a subject, on an object, apparently belonging to th epast but still extraordinarily alive: the book.
The book seen not only as a paper object, a container of written words and a fundamental tool for sharing knowledge, but rather as a universe of objects honouring it, with complementary ideas to it.
Several works will be exhibited among design items and contemporary artworks.
There will be bookmarks, made by different materials and with the most sophisticated shapes, bookstands more or less foldable, bookends, bookshelves, reading lamps and pieces of furniture, all inspired by books and designed by the most important contemporary designers.
There will be also some significant works of the contemporary visual arts: in particular, the attention will be focused on the masterpieces of some artists that are always been attracted by books.
kouichi okamoto's work is exhibited there.
On the 28th of March 2013 the Shanghai Museum of Glass presents a sparkling new exhibition that shows the playful and fun character of glass design. Keep it Glassy shows the work of more than 50 designers from all over the world, including renowned names such as Droog (The Netherlands), Fabrica (Italy), the Campana Brothers (Brazil) and Tadao Ando (Japan). Over 200 exhibited objects have one thing in common: they are designed with love and should be handled with care.
Exhibition organizer : Shanghai Museum of Glass
Concept and Design : Tilman Thurmer / COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.
Curation : Chen Ying / Shanghai Museum of Glass
COORDINATION ASIA Ltd.
Exhibition Lighting : ERCO
Hosts: China Central Academy of Fine Arts University of the Arts London Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges (CCW)
Organizers: School of Fine Art, China Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA Art Museum Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London Art Director-General: PAN Gongkai Curators: SU Xinping WANG Huangsheng George Blacklock
The Water Clock was selected for this exhibition.
This will be a Japan/United Kingdom design exhibition. This exhibition aims to examine the various factors which have acted as an inspiration featured, to seek which aspects inspired the designers from each country, and the relationship ties between their respective social backgrounds besides them. It is an exhibition to see how each designer was inspired, consciously or un-consciously, and to see if those inspirations have been visualized or shaped,and also to see how global those factors were.
kouichi okamoto's new work "light of thought" is exhibited there.
Participants :
Makoto Orisaki, Koichi Okamoto, Jo Nagasaka, Ryuji Nakamura, Risa Fukui, Koichi Futatsumata, Yuri Suzuki, Maiko Kurogouchi
Moritz Waldemeyer, Ismini Samanidou, Paul Cocksedge, Max Lamb, Geoffrey Mann, Helen Amy Murray, Hannah Martin, Benjamin Hubert
10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. *Open until 8:30 pm on Fridays and Saturdays closed on Mondays *When Monday is a national holiday, closed on the following weekday instead. and New Year Holidays.
Kyouei design is opened a pop-up shop and exhibition at whole space of the museum shop 2 of
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
PKN Vol. 96 -- is a BIG one! Officially part of Tokyo Designers Week, it will be celebrating with a very special PechaKucha Night at the TDW Dome (at Meiji-Jingu Gaien) with a lot of fantastic guests, and yes, a focus on design. With a venue that can hold up to 1200 attendees, this should be one of the biggest PKNs in Tokyo yet! It will be held on Wednesday, October 31 (doors to the venue open at 19:00, with presentations starting at 19:30), and you will be able to attend the event with a regular TDW ticket (2500 yen), or through a specially discounted night ticket (1500 yen, which allows entry after 18:00).
Kouichi Okamoto will do a presentation at PKN vol.96.
"musical table" and "lighting chair" works are shown in this exhibition.
This latest work of Okamoto's is made up of 504 of musical boxes
which play delicate sounds in reaction to visitor movement.
Creative Director&Art Director: Hideyuki Kume / ICN
Curator: Hisami Omori / ICN
Sound Producer & Product Designer: Kouichi Okamoto / kyouei design
Photography & Movie Director:Hideyuki Kume / ICN
Space Designer:Hideyuki Kume / ICN
In cooperation with: Pola Orbis Holdings Inc,CCC (the centre for creative communications)
new products : random musical box, dish of light and form of the function jewelry collection
will exhibit in ICN gallery.
Illustrating his much-admired products, Okamoto will talk about the idea and ethos behind them and demonstrate how his career has developed to its current state. For an informal discussion to follow, Okamoto will be joined by Max Fraser, Editor of the London Design Guide, who, through his familiarity and experience with Japanese design, will discuss the challenge Okamoto faces when he constantly evolves his creation, and explore the potential a designer or creator holds in creating products beyond their realm. Assessing the current climate in Japan and the UK, they will also touch upon the creative environment in each country and what elements are expected of a successful product designer.
This event is free to attend but booking is essential. To reserve a place, please email your name and the title of the event you would like to attend to event@jpf.org.uk
This event is organised in association with the ICN Gallery
Kyouei design's product "form of the function" jewelry collection is exhibited at our distributor Places and Spaces's booth. Places and Spaces URL : http://placesandspaces.com/
Now in its second year, designjunction has cemented its reputation for showcasing the finest selection of international design brands. This year designjunction welcomes the Tramshed into the event to create an even more powerful showcase for design in London's largest non-purpose built event space.
designjunction will feature more than 100 world-class international brands set against the industrial surrounds of a 1960's Sorting Office. Moving away from the traditional trade show environment, designjunction strikes the balance between creative and commercial, offering visitors a vibrant yet relaxed atmosphere to engage and connect with design.
Three floors, across an impressive 120,000 sq ft. space, will be devoted to leading international brands, smaller cutting-edge labels, design shops, large-scale installations, temporary restaurants, bars and cafes, working flash factories, and live entertainment.
designjunction will transform the Sorting Office into the largest destination for design, culture and entertainment.
Living well is changing the parameters.
Now is the time for a simple timelessness that is nevertheless rich
in emotions and sensations.
Geometrical, archetypal, molecular or abstract forms are referencing elements like water, earth, fire and air.
Design is drawing inspiration from meteorology and climatology to invent
new expressions of today's atmosphere. Between lightness and weightiness,
power and transparency, force and fluidity ,a new generation of objects is inviting us to dream.
The Water Clock was selected for this exhibition.
Organizer: the center for creative communications (CCC)
Cooperation: Pola Orbis Holdings Inc.
Planning: NPO Hexaproject
Creative director/Art director: Hideyuki Kume
Curator: Hisami Omori
Musical table :
The musical table installed 504 volumes on the top plate,
and there are 504 musical box movements which play only a single sound
in the point of the 5-m electric line extended from there.
The motor revolving speed of the musical boxes are adjusted by the volume of
the table, and the musical boxes play sound at random.
Lighting chair :
They are a chair in which the electric socket plates are embedded, and a chair in which the switch plates are embedded.
The electrical cord extended from the plug inserted in the electric socket is to a switch,
and the electrical cords are transmitted to brass and copper gas pipes.
The lamp of the colander made from pure copper of various sizes illuminates the chairs.
The Musical table and the Lighting chair were created by cooperation of POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
"Creative Lounge MOV aiiima" is a project which is shown a popular company in the space.
visitors can see working life of them in real.
method inc's project '(shop)' is also exhibited in the same space.
Okamoto's work "weight of the light" is exhibited during in the period.
This year, DESIGNING creates places which introduce each one of people who are in the city.
We hopes that the event will be the place where everybody can share awareness and actions.
Okamoto's "Pendulum Sound Machine" is exhibited at SHOP exhibition curated by method during in the period.
This will be a Japan/United Kingdom design exhibition. This exhibition aims to examine the various factors which have acted as an inspiration featured, to seek which aspects inspired the designers from each country, and the relationship ties between their respective social backgrounds besides them. It is an exhibition to see how each designer was inspired, consciously or un-consciously, and to see if those inspirations have been visualized or shaped,and also to see how global those factors were.
Kyouei design's Glass Tank and Okamoto's 'dram machine' as his inspired item are exhibited there.
Participants :
Makoto Orisaki, Koichi Okamoto, Jo Nagasaka, Ryuji Nakamura, Risa Fukui, Koichi Futatsumata, Yuri Suzuki, Maiko Kurogouchi
Moritz Waldemeyer, Ismini Samanidou, Paul Cocksedge, Max Lamb, Geoffrey Mann, Helen Amy Murray, Hannah Martin, Benjamin Hubert
concept :
Choose what our heart desires and think of the reason why it attracts us
besides its category, function or price.With our own words, convey the product's story, value and how it relates to others.Look carefully at the world around us; look back at our history; think of
the existential meanings of the thing and ourselves.
The process will enable us to find our own place. (SHOP) can help us with that.
(SHOP) is a new kind of shop produced by "method", and it is what we're looking for,
moreover, maybe it is what shop used to be with our nostalgia.
participants :
Bob Foundation, con.temporary furniture / Hinoki Kougei Colin Schaelli),
edition HORIZONTAL / E&Y Gen Suzuki, Koichi Futatsumata, Yosuke Hayashi, Hironobu Yamabe ,Hamiru aqui , minorityrev Julien David,
OUTBOUND Yukiharu Kumagai, Ryo Watanabe,Takara Kinoshita,
writtenafterwards ,Maico Akiba, Kutani Choemon + Maruwakaya ,
kyouei design (kouichi okamoto), Hiroshi Kudo,Mitsuru Koga ,
Hisakazu Shimizu, Ryuji Nakamura.
Supported by Shizuoka City, CCC creative resident, Koichi Okamoto (Kyouei design) completed an 11-day creator in residence with the apparatu ceramic studio in Barcelona, Spain from 2011.02.26 to 03.07. During the residence, Okamoto (product designer) and Xavier Mañosa (apparatu ceremic artist/designer) worked on a collaborative project creating glasses with use of ceramics as a material and held an exhibition in Barcelona. In "Kyouei design x apparatu Spain Residence Exhibition", you can see their collaborative work and their own works with the theme of ceramics which shows you their creative activities. The Creative Talk Show by these two designers will be held during the exhibition as well. This is a not-to-miss exhibition by Kyouei design and apparatu who both have unique styles.
To register, send an email to CCC.
Please include your name and contact info.
info@c-c-c.or.jp
The 2011 Taipei World Design Expo is the biggest event among all "Taiwan Design Year," including 3 venues, Songshan Cultural & Creative Park, TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall and TWTC Exhibition Hall 1. It will be the most important international activity after Deaflympics and Flora Expoheld in Taipei. This activity will bring businesses, design companies, design schools and design promotion organizations under one roof. Under the theme "Design at the Edge", these participants will interpret it from the angle of design beneficence so that the general public can experience the dynamic power of world design industries and come to appreciate brilliant idea of Taiwan designers in in particular.
The Pendulum Sound Machine is exhibited at the venue.
The exhibition is organised in partnership with the luxury watch brand Officine Panerai, which, at the opening ceremony, will present an installation about the design of its watches.
A wide selection of site-specific works, installations, designer items, works of art, videos by international artists and designers will try to answer such questions as: "How can time be measured?", "How can passing time be shown?", "How can time be experienced?". All exhibits address such topics as the passing of time, ever-changing time, perishing, sometimes funnily, sometimes poetically, sometimes meditatively and critically.
The Water Clock is elected and exhibited.
Over the past 10 years the design scene in Asia has changed greatly. Countries have placed emphasis on the creative industries in efforts to improve their economies and in places such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei large international design events are taking place. But in Shizuoka the attitude towards design value in business and recognition of design is still rather low. We will hold an exhibition featuring top curators/creatives from Shizuoka-Japan, Singapore, Malaysia,Taiwan, China and South Korea. What is happening in design scenes in other countries From the multiple non-Western viewpoints of Asia we can see what's happening across the globe and give thought to how the design scene in Shizuoka can shine more brightly. Art, animation, game design, fashion, graphic, product & interior design and more exhibits introducing the various aspects of creative culture in each country.
Kouichi Okamoto is in each venue during the exhibition.