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d design travel IWATE
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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.
Iwate: Moving Ever Forward Toward the Light
Perhaps it was the yamase winds, but our first impression of Iwate was that of going to meet something vaguely untouchable, surrounded by a hazy white fog.
Somethig tell us Kenji Miyazaki isn't the only one to imagine a utopia like Ihatov in the midst of Iwate. We now believe that somewhere among Iwate's people there must be stars waiting to shine.
They've endured pain and sorrow, and until the day their blazing light is rekindked, we'll keep on supporting them. That will to keep moving forward, we think, is the true essence of Iwate.
One Note on the Cover : "Ryojo Portugal" by Tomio Oba
Iwate is a land of myths and legends. Maybe it's because of the cold, wet yamase winds of the Kitakami Mountains, but sometimes even emotions like joy and sorrow seem to be enveloped in a white mist, so that it's hard to tell which is real. But whenever the trip was getting us down, it was this woodcut by Tomio Oba that inspired us to keep going. There's a certain sense of loneliness about it, and yet hopes and dreams shine from within—in that respect, it captures the essence of Iwate that we witnessed on our journeys, making it the perfect cover for our Iwate issue.
*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.
Iwate: Moving Ever Forward Toward the Light
Perhaps it was the yamase winds, but our first impression of Iwate was that of going to meet something vaguely untouchable, surrounded by a hazy white fog.
Somethig tell us Kenji Miyazaki isn't the only one to imagine a utopia like Ihatov in the midst of Iwate. We now believe that somewhere among Iwate's people there must be stars waiting to shine.
They've endured pain and sorrow, and until the day their blazing light is rekindked, we'll keep on supporting them. That will to keep moving forward, we think, is the true essence of Iwate.
One Note on the Cover : "Ryojo Portugal" by Tomio Oba
Iwate is a land of myths and legends. Maybe it's because of the cold, wet yamase winds of the Kitakami Mountains, but sometimes even emotions like joy and sorrow seem to be enveloped in a white mist, so that it's hard to tell which is real. But whenever the trip was getting us down, it was this woodcut by Tomio Oba that inspired us to keep going. There's a certain sense of loneliness about it, and yet hopes and dreams shine from within—in that respect, it captures the essence of Iwate that we witnessed on our journeys, making it the perfect cover for our Iwate issue.
*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.
Iwate: Moving Ever Forward Toward the Light
Perhaps it was the yamase winds, but our first impression of Iwate was that of going to meet something vaguely untouchable, surrounded by a hazy white fog.
Somethig tell us Kenji Miyazaki isn't the only one to imagine a utopia like Ihatov in the midst of Iwate. We now believe that somewhere among Iwate's people there must be stars waiting to shine.
They've endured pain and sorrow, and until the day their blazing light is rekindked, we'll keep on supporting them. That will to keep moving forward, we think, is the true essence of Iwate.
One Note on the Cover : "Ryojo Portugal" by Tomio Oba
Iwate is a land of myths and legends. Maybe it's because of the cold, wet yamase winds of the Kitakami Mountains, but sometimes even emotions like joy and sorrow seem to be enveloped in a white mist, so that it's hard to tell which is real. But whenever the trip was getting us down, it was this woodcut by Tomio Oba that inspired us to keep going. There's a certain sense of loneliness about it, and yet hopes and dreams shine from within—in that respect, it captures the essence of Iwate that we witnessed on our journeys, making it the perfect cover for our Iwate issue.
*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.
Iwate: Moving Ever Forward Toward the Light
Perhaps it was the yamase winds, but our first impression of Iwate was that of going to meet something vaguely untouchable, surrounded by a hazy white fog.
Somethig tell us Kenji Miyazaki isn't the only one to imagine a utopia like Ihatov in the midst of Iwate. We now believe that somewhere among Iwate's people there must be stars waiting to shine.
They've endured pain and sorrow, and until the day their blazing light is rekindked, we'll keep on supporting them. That will to keep moving forward, we think, is the true essence of Iwate.
One Note on the Cover : "Ryojo Portugal" by Tomio Oba
Iwate is a land of myths and legends. Maybe it's because of the cold, wet yamase winds of the Kitakami Mountains, but sometimes even emotions like joy and sorrow seem to be enveloped in a white mist, so that it's hard to tell which is real. But whenever the trip was getting us down, it was this woodcut by Tomio Oba that inspired us to keep going. There's a certain sense of loneliness about it, and yet hopes and dreams shine from within—in that respect, it captures the essence of Iwate that we witnessed on our journeys, making it the perfect cover for our Iwate issue.
*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