Design + Community + Social Impact The Latest from GOOD Magazine and IDEO 1:55 pm – The conference hall at Midtown is filling up. Most of the audience looks to be under 30 – designers, students, people interested in sustainability. What is social design? That’s the title of the first session and we’ll be hearing [...]
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Yugo Nakamura – A Wizard, a True Star
Posted in creativity, design, internet, tagged daniel rosenblum, design, GOOD Magazine, IDEO, Japan Society, sustainability, tha ltd, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, web desighner, Yugo Nakamura on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yugo Nakamura – A Wizard, a True Star It’s the first day of our exploration of design and sustainability in Tokyo with Max Schorr and Casey Caplowe of GOOD Magazine and Valerie Casey of IDEO. Wending our way through Shibuya, we arrive at tha ltd, the studio of maverick web designer Yugo Nakamura. You enter [...]
GOOD: I want my money in this envelope.
Posted in design, tagged design, GOOD Magazine, IDEO, Japan, the Designers Accord, Yasuhiro Asano on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Japan, we have a tendency to wrap everything. We are very much into packaging. Beautiful packaging. When people get married or die, we have the custom of wrapping money in an envelope and wrap the envelope with strands of cords which are made of rice paper. We call these paper cords mizuhiki. The mizuhiki [...]



