Archive for August, 2009

This work is part of the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion at the New York Museum of Mod­ern Art Back­ground When I was attend­ing Royal  Col­lege of Art in Lon­don, I wanted to cre­ate some­thing to express my Japan­ese iden­tity, since every­one else around me were for­eign­ers.    As  find­ing beauty in a grain of wood, or the texture […]

This prod­uct was cre­ated for Eco­log­i­cal Prod­uct Show. It is eco­log­i­cal because it uses less mate­r­ial than the exist­ing porce­lain cups. The porce­lain has been treated so that it become sponge-like. Because of that, the cut is light in weight, but it still has the usual char­ac­ter­is­tics of porce­lain. The name, Ice Flake Cup, comes […]