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oct. 7 – 11, 2004 http://www.tokyodesignersblock.com/2004

most pictures by janine parker, some by mno design. (디자인 붐 웹진의 실제 링크에 클로즈업한 사진자료 다수..)

1968…

‘1968 was the year that reflected the period of revolutions
and turbulence. music transcended the time and design reflected
the period. political movements such as may revolution in paris
and shinjuku riot in tokyo left impact on people’s life.
the impact of this year grows to become the hope for people to be
able to change the world by themselves.
but if we look back at those days, questions proposed at that time
may remain unsolved.

the unsolved question sparked nationalism and globalization.
new waves of incidents happened: short board surfing was
born in australian coasts.
young people putting on jeans pants showing part of their hips
were wandering on the streets. the beatles’ white album created
new phase of musical culture. these changes were revolutions
in 1968 that opened up people’s desire to answer the fundamental
questions.

SURF REVOLUTIONS LIFE REVOLUTIONS

this year, 2004, has the similarity in terms of desire for changes.
It is now that we question the fundamental questions once again
from universal views. what was the question that was asked all
around the world in those days? what are the questions we are
asking ourselves this year: what is the design?
what is the space design? what are life and living?
DESIGN REVOLUTION

we once again question the cultures born in 1968.
we create new values regardless of concepts that have already
been made. now, what truly changes the world is the design that
possesses the essential of living.
we are convinced of the power of the design.’

text by teruo kurosaki

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the producer of this five-day event ‘tokyo designers block is
teruo kurosaki. he started an international empire of interior
innovation through his idée and sputnik furniture lines.
kurosaki wants now, via the staging of the fifth tokyo designers
block, to exhibit the virtues of japanese design culture to the
rest of the world. though not himself a designer, kurosaki has
been called the ’terence conran of japan’ and become synonymous
with a new wave of lifestyle design that is, first and foremost,
born out of tokyo’s peculiar urban milieu.
he studied physics and was supposed to be scientist or an
engineer but decided that he wanted to work with interiors,
architecture and the environment.
in the 1980s, kurosaki opened a small interior design workshop
in tokyo’s aoyama district and began making the acquaintance
of the then still unknown designers philippe starck and
marc newson. he exhibited his line ‘sputnik’ in the london
designers block and could relate with those people,
with their more edgy, alternative ways of showing design.
london designers block was the initial inspiration for the TDB.

* 저자 / 출처 : 디자인붐 http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/tdb04/1.html