11.03.08 Le Baron de Paris × ColetteJapan Fashion Festival
Le Baron de Paris, a trend-setting club lounge, and Colette, the most famed trend-dictating boutique in France, proudly bring you the biggest fashion festival at brand spanking new mega-venue Belle Salle Shibuya First!
The fabulous headliners of this event begins from The Rapture, who has done live performance for PRADA during NY Fashion’s Night Out in 2009, VAMPIRE WEEKEND, a indies rock band from NY, having played at Fuji Rock, and a leading French-electro DJ Gildas Loaec from Kitsun?.
TOKYO MIDTOWN HALL A & B 9-7-2Akasaka, Minato-ku,Tokyo, Japan
DESIGNTIDE TOKYO is a trade show to present new products and to set forth new scenes.While it focuses on interior design and commercial products, the event presents carefully selected design productsfrom various fields. DESIGNTIDE TOKYO also functions as an exhibition to showcasethe devoted designers’ new ideas and their unique perspectives to the world.
The Good Design Awards is a comprehensive program for the evaluation and encouragement of design organized by Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO).
Design that was once limited to the commodity and advertising sectors now goes far beyond this scope, and has a crucial role in a wide range of new domains, such as service and business development, urban environment planning, lifestyle adjustments and the development of new social systems. Design is essential to improving the lives of every individual in the twenty-first century.
・18:40〜 Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH 2010＠Galleria B1F Atrium
This exhibition is made in collaboration with the highly-renowned media arts institution ARS Electronica and suggests how to create the future by fusing design and technology. Come see their collaboration works, interactive pieces and attend their workshops.
A person stands behind an illuminated screen and is photographed. The result is a shadowimage in which a human silhouette is all that can be seen. This picture is then printed out asa miniature sticker and applied to a “map” whose topography has been derived from a clusterof topics including education, environment, health system and society, whereby the bodylanguage of the silhouette, a speech balloon containing a brief statement, and the respectivethematic cluster coalesce into a message. For instance: the person behind the illuminatedscreen covers his/her ears with his/her hands while being photographed. This silhouette isthen allocated to the Environment cluster and a speech balloon containing a remark aboutnoise pollution is added to it. The upshot is a highly creative, graphic mode of “socialbrainstorming” and thus a means of identifying problems and bringing out potentialsolutions.
・SWITCH Creative Edutainment Kit for Experience Design
“Discover a problem in the everyday life and infuse a new medium to solve it.” SWITCH is an edutainment kit designed to create subtle entertainment in our life by combining a sensor and content. This project is a collaborative research between Ars Electronica Futurelab and ELEKIT, a company known for their educational electronic kits. SWITCH wants to give people the opportunity to explore experience design and learn about the daily tasks of interaction designers. Visitors can create their own SWITCH at the ELEKIT workshop center and add their work to the exhibition.
“It’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you… without a dope beat to step to.”G.R.L., Open Frameworks and graffiti legend Tempt1 have teamed-up to bring you the latest weapon of ocular assault: the EyeWriter. Source code, free software, HOW TO guide, videos and eye tags by Tempt1 available at eyewriter.org.“Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others”– Tony Quan, aka Tempt OneThe EyeWriter core development team consists of Zach Lieberman, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Tony Quan & The Ebeling Group.Made possible through support from the Not Impossible Foundation and Parsons Communication Design & Technology.
