Design & Life | non-fat minizine | issue 03 Apr.13 .CONTENTS | Design & Life minizine D&L News We provide the news that you don't want to miss. This is your basic protein. 4 12 Designers’ Circle 30 The Moment There are a lot of moments in one's life. We treasure each precious moment. From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle. D&L Lifestyle Only enjoy the life can make a difference. 34 1/2 Recipe Cooking is Art. There are no rules. 1/2 recipe shows you the smartest way to cook. 50 w w w. d e s i g n a n d l i f e . c o m .D&L News | Design & Life minizine Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne D&L News We provide the news that you don't want to miss. This is your basic protein. Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne 01. Your ideal house - imm cologne Imm cologne is one of the largest international furniture fair. It is held in Cologne, Germany.
Design & Life | non-fat minizine | issue 03 Apr.13 CONTENTS | Design & Life minizine D&L News We provide the news that you don't want to miss This is your basic protein 12 Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle 30 The Moment There are a lot of moments in one's life We treasure each precious moment D&L Lifestyle Only enjoy the life can make a difference 1/2 Recipe Cooking is Art There are no rules 1/2 recipe shows you the smartest way to cook 50 w w w d e s i g n a n d l i f e c o m 34 D&L News | Design & Life minizine Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne D&L News Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne We provide the news that you don't want to miss This is your basic protein 01 Your ideal house - imm cologne Imm cologne is one of the largest international furniture fair It is held in Cologne, Germany Each yaer, besides commercial aspect of the fair, they also will invite designers to present their ideal houses which gives the visitors an opportunity to know the contemporary developments Several designers such as Karim Rashid, Konstantin Grcic, the Campana brothers, Hella Jongerius, and so on, had been invited And this year, Zaha Hadid & Naoto Fukasawa have been invited to show their point of view While Hadid set up a cave-like house growing directly from the ground; Fukasawa developed a systematic space with surrounding objects integrated into the wall www.imm-cologne.com www.designboom.com/snapshots/cologne07/ idealhome_naoto.html Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne D&L News | Design & Life minizine Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne D&L News | Design & Life minizine Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne D&L News | Design & Life minizine 02 A reminder for the future Where will you be in years? Are you going to marry him? Want to quit the job in years? Or you want to remind yourself to quit smoking? Time is flying, and sometimes we just simply keep forgeting things Here is your life saver FutureMe org is a fresh idea developed by young fellas that allows you to write yourself a letter to be delivered at a later date How cool would that be! www.futureme.org 10 03 MONOCLE - Brule rules! In 1990s, Wallpaper was launched, and since then, it became the most popular trend magazine in the world And now, Tyler Brule, the founder of Wallpaper, has done it again Monocle is the latest magazine by Brule If you think Monocle is just an extension of Wallpaper, you are wrong The content of Monocle includes Affairs, Business, Culture, Design and Edits(A,B,C,D,E.) It tells you everything around the world in a decent way Want to know more about Japanese Self Defence Force? Or want to know what is happening in Oman? How about inside story of Tokyo Midtown? You might want to check this magazine! www.monocle.com Photograph by Jean Snow 04 Tokyo Midtown grand opening! Tokyo is always at the top of the world in terms of fashion or trend Before it is fashion, it is in Tokyo Few years ago, we saw Roppongi Hills had been built up; last year, Tadao Ando's Omotesando gathered the spotlights; and now, just half mile from Roppongi Hills, Tokyo Midtown has grand opened proudly Besides fashion, Midtown provides more highend living needs, such as beauty, interiors, design and unique restaurants "It is not about people with money, it's about people in Tokyo who have a sense of discernment," said Tetsuya Matsufuji, the PM of Tokyo Midtown www.monocle.com 11 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle issue 03 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine Hello! Mike & Katie! It's nice to have you here! Your works are all so cute & colorful! How Please introduce yourself & TADO to our readers! you start a character? Do they all have their own story? Which character is your favorite? Hi! TADO is our partnership, we specialise in Illustration, Character Design, Animation, Toy Design, thankyou! we really try to draw new characters all and all kinds of other rubbish as well! the time - sometimes they come easily, sometimes We've been trying to think of an interesting story its more tricky! we usually start with an idea for a about what 'TADO' means, unfortunately the boring particular part, like the eyes, or shape for the head truth is that it's just parts of our surnames put or something like that we then draw the rest of the together!! how embarrassing! 14 How did you two get together?? Tell us a little bit romance? XD We met at University back in 2001 when a Uni tutor of ours suggested we try working together We hit it off straight away and have been inseperable since! These days we live and work together in our home in sheffield Its nice and we eat lots of nice things!! character around this element its not always that simple though! :):) some of our characters have stories, it depends on what they are being used for quite often they will have stories and relationships with the characters around them but we dont go out of our way to explain this too much we like to hear other people's interpretations of them! We're afraid we dont have particular favourites - it changes every week! What inspires you the most? Our friends! we are very lucky to have some extremely talented friends knowing people who are busy and active doing things they love keeps us excited and motivated 15 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine As a duo, you fight sometimes? over different opinions?? Of course! we tend to squabble a lot and bicker about work stuff because we know each other so well we are like an old husband and wife! haha! we are each others harshest work critics so often we will disagree Which project so far is your favorite? Could you with each others ideas and have to find ways to work introduce it a little bit? around them if we can't find a peaceful solution then its fistycuffs! hehehe! We really cant pick out one particular favourite - we're Personally though, we've never had a proper very fortunate that we enjoy pretty much all our work! argument and rarely argue despite living and working Often its the people we get to work with rather than together 24-7! the artwork itself that make the project a favourite with us That said, some of our personal highlights would be the Smart Car project (most excellent people to work with!), The Intermix Exhibition Project, our 'Purity' animation, and more recently some work we've just finished for a branding agency in London called Communicator The communicator project was one of the bigger projects we've taken on - it involved a re-brand of the company and then the accompanying website as well The client was pretty much happy for us to go nuts with stuff and wanted a rich and crazy flash site The theme for the project was 'channeled energy' so we created a world that revolved around the process of growing and developing ideas, as well as ecology We teamed up with some really good friends of ours Unwrong who did all the hardcore coding and such which gave the little guys who inhabit the site world artificial intelligence The site is set to go live in the next few weeks, we're very excited to see it happen! 16 Do you cook? What is your comfort food? We aren't the most amazing cooks in the world, but we know how to make a mean pie - we tend to prefer the eating side of things though! Our comfort food would be buns from the chinese bakery near us! 17 18 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine 19 26 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine 27 28 Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine This chapter is designer's circle We hope you can introduce one of your friends who is a designer, and will be interviewed in the next issue! Could you introduce him(her) a little bit ? Who is the best? Mike or Katie? Any more secret to share? :D Katie is best because Katie is always right hmm, any more secrets ?? fraid not! After a lot of thought and deliberation we think you should drop a line to our friends at ILoveDust Mark and the gang are very good friends of ours but a total bunch of oddballs They've been doing a lot of amazing stuff recently and the company itself is evolving at a crazy rate We're sure they'd make very interesting interviewees! next on Designers' Circle : Mark / ilovedust 29 The Moment | Design & Life minizine The Moment There are a lot of moments in one's life We treasure each precious moment s u m m e r festival couples walk by the river with sky brightened by firecrackers million balloon s with freedom just like birds with no return the passion of the vendors string those falling sakura flower s 30 31 all the vivid scenes compose your sweet dreams it's so true but they feel so untru e the s u m m e r festival pantone 7460c pantone 5503u 96c pantone The Moment | Design & Life minizine Paul Motian / I have the room above her Nice record by Paul Motian Featuring Joe Lovano(Tenor Saxophone), Bill Frisell(Guitar) Great for summer night www.ecmrecords.com Photograph by Shibo Photograph by Shibo SanYo Foods CupStar Fuggokuhan (Old-fashioned) Instant Noodle Sanyo Foods re-produced old-fashioned instant noodle It is from 32 years ago Great soy sauce flavor! www.sanyofoods.co.jp 32 MUJI Old-fashioned candies Another old-fashioned product from MUJI www.muji.net ラムネ (La-Mu-Ne) marble icecream soda (old-fashioned) Old-fashioned soda by Sangaria! Our favorite from childhood! www.sangaria.co.jp 33 D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine D&L Lifestyle Only enjoy the life can make a difference Welcome to colorful paradise www.marimekko.com D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine 37 Printed textile pattern is adopted by lots of brands again recently in the field of fashion In this trend, Marimekko who has been designed creative fabric pattern for 50 years is getting lots of attention Especially the Maija Isola’ s unikko pattern of Marimekko, designed over 40 years ago, blooms as never before With new colors and sizes, Isola’s abundant flower has acquired a new, broadly audience and market 38 D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine 39 Marimekko was founded by Armi Ratua and Viljo in Finland in 1951 Marimekko means “Mary-dress”, and Mekko is an old Finnish word means “little girl dress” There is a further reason in the name: “Mari” is an anagram for Armi, thus linking the company closely to its founder Since the beginning, they have been encouraging their designers to create unique and beautiful patterns and objects related to human environment The basic philosophy of the company is – Design is inspired by beautiful everyday life Flowers, organic structure, and nature are often being used as a subject for their creative design The distinctive fabric pattern shows its Finnish identity, which is strong colors and progressive design, and created a unique company image ... www.sangaria.co.jp 33 D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine D&L Lifestyle Only enjoy the life can make a difference Welcome to colorful paradise www.marimekko.com D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine 37 Printed... brilliant thing 24 Designer''s Circle | Design & Life minizine 25 26 Designer''s Circle | Design & Life minizine 27 28 Designer''s Circle | Design & Life minizine This chapter is designer''s circle... www.monocle.com 11 Designer''s Circle | Design & Life minizine Designers’ Circle From A to B, from B to C; it is the world of designers; it’s designers’ circle issue 03 Designer''s Circle | Design & Life minizine