Journal
Journal explores Japanese design and craft and how they become part of everyday life. Through materials, making, and use, we document the people behind the work and continue to explore the connections between Taiwan and Japan.
What a Papaya on a Lacquer Dish Can Tell Us Abo...
Penglai ware brings Japanese lacquer techniques and Taiwanese imagery onto one surface. Its history leads through colonial classrooms, workshop tools, export trades and the choices makers still make.
What a Papaya on a Lacquer Dish Can Tell Us Abo...
Penglai ware brings Japanese lacquer techniques and Taiwanese imagery onto one surface. Its history leads through colonial classrooms, workshop tools, export trades and the choices makers still make.
How Flat Cloth Becomes a Pair of Gyoda Tabi
Rikuoh turns an old tabi factory toward running shoes. The real craft offers another story: the cutting, seams and small metal fasteners that give a cloth sock its distinctive form.
How Flat Cloth Becomes a Pair of Gyoda Tabi
Rikuoh turns an old tabi factory toward running shoes. The real craft offers another story: the cutting, seams and small metal fasteners that give a cloth sock its distinctive form.
The Whistle Has to Be With You
Phase Free begins with a practical question: what keeps an emergency function within reach? An accessory-like whistle offers one answer; tableware and tatami reveal why each product needs its own.
The Whistle Has to Be With You
Phase Free begins with a practical question: what keeps an emergency function within reach? An accessory-like whistle offers one answer; tableware and tatami reveal why each product needs its own.
Japan’s Traditional Craft Designation Looks Bey...
A century-old technique is one requirement. Japan’s designation system also asks whether materials, handwork, use and a regional community of makers can support continued production.
Japan’s Traditional Craft Designation Looks Bey...
A century-old technique is one requirement. Japan’s designation system also asks whether materials, handwork, use and a regional community of makers can support continued production.