Tokyo Designer’s Week 2006
This year’s Tokyo Design Week DesignTide, which is held November 1-5, claims its main theme as "Design & Peace", a particularly relevant and timely theme in Northern Asia right now. DesignTide’s main site has three exhibitions: Tide Exhibition of 53 designers presenting their interpretation of Design & Peace, Tide Market where designers sell their products and Treasured Trash, where 22 designers show what can be done with what is normally thrown away.
"Reflecting the times and the environment in which we live, it functions as a recycling station with innovative ideas for the possible brighter future.”With this goal, Treasured Trash, a condensed program exhibition, aims at transmitting a long-term practical creation, not just producing a cool design like we used to.
A 1.5 meter wide Tide Chandelier made of plastic debris from artist-designer Stuart Haygarth.
“The original Tide chandelier is ... based on the collection of ' man made' debris washed up on ... Kent coastline...The material collected is sorted and categorized and several individual pieces of work were produced.”
Jin Yanni
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http://www.designtide.jp/06/en/
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