D&DEPARTMENT
d design travel OKAYAMA
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Japan
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.
A rich life in the Land of Sunshine
In town and country, at work and at play, the people of Okayama make each day worthwhile. Their legends may tell of strife between opposing forces, like Momotaro and the oni. But in their own lives there are no opposing sides, no dividing lines. They enjoy a sense of security that comes from living in the Land of Sunshine, coupled with a spirit of sustainable coexistence. There is no right or wrong; all may live as they wish. That, We think, is the essence of Okayama.
One Note on the Cover : "Oni" by Taro Gomi
How wonderful it is when the sun is always shining! Like a long summer holiday, the days filled with exploring and the nights with stargazing, life in Okayama is a scene from a storybook. If you love kibi-dango, you may know the oni on the cover of this issue. In Okayama there's a festival where an oni is the star; and some say that Momotaro himself was an oni? But no matter who you are, in Okayama you're free to live as you please.
*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.
A rich life in the Land of Sunshine
In town and country, at work and at play, the people of Okayama make each day worthwhile. Their legends may tell of strife between opposing forces, like Momotaro and the oni. But in their own lives there are no opposing sides, no dividing lines. They enjoy a sense of security that comes from living in the Land of Sunshine, coupled with a spirit of sustainable coexistence. There is no right or wrong; all may live as they wish. That, We think, is the essence of Okayama.
One Note on the Cover : "Oni" by Taro Gomi
How wonderful it is when the sun is always shining! Like a long summer holiday, the days filled with exploring and the nights with stargazing, life in Okayama is a scene from a storybook. If you love kibi-dango, you may know the oni on the cover of this issue. In Okayama there's a festival where an oni is the star; and some say that Momotaro himself was an oni? But no matter who you are, in Okayama you're free to live as you please.
*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.
A rich life in the Land of Sunshine
In town and country, at work and at play, the people of Okayama make each day worthwhile. Their legends may tell of strife between opposing forces, like Momotaro and the oni. But in their own lives there are no opposing sides, no dividing lines. They enjoy a sense of security that comes from living in the Land of Sunshine, coupled with a spirit of sustainable coexistence. There is no right or wrong; all may live as they wish. That, We think, is the essence of Okayama.
One Note on the Cover : "Oni" by Taro Gomi
How wonderful it is when the sun is always shining! Like a long summer holiday, the days filled with exploring and the nights with stargazing, life in Okayama is a scene from a storybook. If you love kibi-dango, you may know the oni on the cover of this issue. In Okayama there's a festival where an oni is the star; and some say that Momotaro himself was an oni? But no matter who you are, in Okayama you're free to live as you please.
*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.
A rich life in the Land of Sunshine
In town and country, at work and at play, the people of Okayama make each day worthwhile. Their legends may tell of strife between opposing forces, like Momotaro and the oni. But in their own lives there are no opposing sides, no dividing lines. They enjoy a sense of security that comes from living in the Land of Sunshine, coupled with a spirit of sustainable coexistence. There is no right or wrong; all may live as they wish. That, We think, is the essence of Okayama.
One Note on the Cover : "Oni" by Taro Gomi
How wonderful it is when the sun is always shining! Like a long summer holiday, the days filled with exploring and the nights with stargazing, life in Okayama is a scene from a storybook. If you love kibi-dango, you may know the oni on the cover of this issue. In Okayama there's a festival where an oni is the star; and some say that Momotaro himself was an oni? But no matter who you are, in Okayama you're free to live as you please.
*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