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d design travel CHIBA
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d design travel is a series of guidebooks that introduces each of the 47 prefecture's "long-lasting individuality" or "uniqueness" from an artistic viewpoint. In each series, the editorial team spends 2 months traveling around each prefecture and features articles on experiences that impressed them.
Easy-Going and Free: Chiba's Pioneer Legacy
Chiba's unique character, as viewed by outsiders like us, certainly owes a lot to the inquisitiveness if its newer inhabitants. Not that there aren't many deep-rooted traditions worth preserving amid all the chaos. Even as Chiba embraced nature, modern cities sprang up along the edge of Tokyo Bay. But that, too, seems to me a symbol of Chiba's welcoming attitude toward diversity.
Part of Chiba's heritage is a pioneering spirit of freedom and creativity. Mizumaru Anzai's illustration on the cover of this issue truly captures the easy-going nature of Chiba.
One Note on the Cover : Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014)
Chiba has no mountains, but ample seas. That's why so many of its people are easy-going types who appreciate the limits of human ability and the awesome power of nature. The food and art they create express a free, unadulterated creativity unbound by traditional values. We felt Mizumaru Anzai, one of Japan's most iconic illustrators and a Chiba native, embodied that same spirit. His work - used here by special permission - displays an almost childlike clarity and a relaxed, free-wheeling originality. It calls to mind a place somewhat removed from the big city, where Chiba's inhabitants live their everyday lives.
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
"Traveling long life design"
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, which works on the theme of "Long-Life Design", has selected the long-lasting "individuality" and "character" of each of the 47 prefectures from a design perspective and compiled them into a tourist guide called "d design travel".
"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there. The "long-lasting things" and "local characteristics" that have taken root in each prefecture are selected and published as "d-mark reviews" in six categories, such as sights, restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels, and people.
"d design travel" is not an ordinary guidebook full of information, but a design travel series that introduces places that have a vitality and a message from the local area that will last even 10 years, confirmed by the sense of D&DEPARTMENT.
Easy-Going and Free: Chiba's Pioneer Legacy
Chiba's unique character, as viewed by outsiders like us, certainly owes a lot to the inquisitiveness if its newer inhabitants. Not that there aren't many deep-rooted traditions worth preserving amid all the chaos. Even as Chiba embraced nature, modern cities sprang up along the edge of Tokyo Bay. But that, too, seems to me a symbol of Chiba's welcoming attitude toward diversity.
Part of Chiba's heritage is a pioneering spirit of freedom and creativity. Mizumaru Anzai's illustration on the cover of this issue truly captures the easy-going nature of Chiba.
One Note on the Cover : Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014)
Chiba has no mountains, but ample seas. That's why so many of its people are easy-going types who appreciate the limits of human ability and the awesome power of nature. The food and art they create express a free, unadulterated creativity unbound by traditional values. We felt Mizumaru Anzai, one of Japan's most iconic illustrators and a Chiba native, embodied that same spirit. His work - used here by special permission - displays an almost childlike clarity and a relaxed, free-wheeling originality. It calls to mind a place somewhat removed from the big city, where Chiba's inhabitants live their everyday lives.
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
"Traveling long life design"
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, which works on the theme of "Long-Life Design", has selected the long-lasting "individuality" and "character" of each of the 47 prefectures from a design perspective and compiled them into a tourist guide called "d design travel".
"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there. The "long-lasting things" and "local characteristics" that have taken root in each prefecture are selected and published as "d-mark reviews" in six categories, such as sights, restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels, and people.
"d design travel" is not an ordinary guidebook full of information, but a design travel series that introduces places that have a vitality and a message from the local area that will last even 10 years, confirmed by the sense of D&DEPARTMENT.
B5 deformed 192-page full color
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
D&DEPARTMENT
d design travel is a series of guidebooks that introduces each of the 47 prefecture's "long-lasting individuality" or "uniqueness" from an artistic viewpoint. In each series, the editorial team spends 2 months traveling around each prefecture and features articles on experiences that impressed them.
Easy-Going and Free: Chiba's Pioneer Legacy
Chiba's unique character, as viewed by outsiders like us, certainly owes a lot to the inquisitiveness if its newer inhabitants. Not that there aren't many deep-rooted traditions worth preserving amid all the chaos. Even as Chiba embraced nature, modern cities sprang up along the edge of Tokyo Bay. But that, too, seems to me a symbol of Chiba's welcoming attitude toward diversity.
Part of Chiba's heritage is a pioneering spirit of freedom and creativity. Mizumaru Anzai's illustration on the cover of this issue truly captures the easy-going nature of Chiba.
One Note on the Cover : Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014)
Chiba has no mountains, but ample seas. That's why so many of its people are easy-going types who appreciate the limits of human ability and the awesome power of nature. The food and art they create express a free, unadulterated creativity unbound by traditional values. We felt Mizumaru Anzai, one of Japan's most iconic illustrators and a Chiba native, embodied that same spirit. His work - used here by special permission - displays an almost childlike clarity and a relaxed, free-wheeling originality. It calls to mind a place somewhat removed from the big city, where Chiba's inhabitants live their everyday lives.
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
"Traveling long life design"
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, which works on the theme of "Long-Life Design", has selected the long-lasting "individuality" and "character" of each of the 47 prefectures from a design perspective and compiled them into a tourist guide called "d design travel".
"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there. The "long-lasting things" and "local characteristics" that have taken root in each prefecture are selected and published as "d-mark reviews" in six categories, such as sights, restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels, and people.
"d design travel" is not an ordinary guidebook full of information, but a design travel series that introduces places that have a vitality and a message from the local area that will last even 10 years, confirmed by the sense of D&DEPARTMENT.
Easy-Going and Free: Chiba's Pioneer Legacy
Chiba's unique character, as viewed by outsiders like us, certainly owes a lot to the inquisitiveness if its newer inhabitants. Not that there aren't many deep-rooted traditions worth preserving amid all the chaos. Even as Chiba embraced nature, modern cities sprang up along the edge of Tokyo Bay. But that, too, seems to me a symbol of Chiba's welcoming attitude toward diversity.
Part of Chiba's heritage is a pioneering spirit of freedom and creativity. Mizumaru Anzai's illustration on the cover of this issue truly captures the easy-going nature of Chiba.
One Note on the Cover : Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014)
Chiba has no mountains, but ample seas. That's why so many of its people are easy-going types who appreciate the limits of human ability and the awesome power of nature. The food and art they create express a free, unadulterated creativity unbound by traditional values. We felt Mizumaru Anzai, one of Japan's most iconic illustrators and a Chiba native, embodied that same spirit. His work - used here by special permission - displays an almost childlike clarity and a relaxed, free-wheeling originality. It calls to mind a place somewhat removed from the big city, where Chiba's inhabitants live their everyday lives.
*The books are written in Japanese and English.
"Traveling long life design"
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, which works on the theme of "Long-Life Design", has selected the long-lasting "individuality" and "character" of each of the 47 prefectures from a design perspective and compiled them into a tourist guide called "d design travel".
"d design travel" presents only those things that have truly impressed the reader from the perspective of "long-life design" after traveling to the area as if the editors lived there. The "long-lasting things" and "local characteristics" that have taken root in each prefecture are selected and published as "d-mark reviews" in six categories, such as sights, restaurants, cafes, shops, hotels, and people.
"d design travel" is not an ordinary guidebook full of information, but a design travel series that introduces places that have a vitality and a message from the local area that will last even 10 years, confirmed by the sense of D&DEPARTMENT.
B5 deformed 192-page full color
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
Written in bi-lingual format: Japanese/English
D&DEPARTMENT