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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.
Saitama is the future of design, as it strikes a perefct balance between naturalness and aesthetics.
While traveling to Saitama for our research and interview, we began to notice the intentionality of the "untoched nature" in the Prefecture. All the river banks there have been dyked and are lined by groves that seemingly appearin a pattern along the roads. Standing tall, full of presence, as if they are protecting the land, ancient gingko and maple trees surround not only public buildings but also landmarks, such as temples.
Saitama residents are correct when they said that there is nothing special about Saitama: nature is not special because it is very much a part of the landscape. Saitama strikes a good balance between culture and nature, thus creating an ideal environment for people to live in. Saitama is not, in the traditional sense of the word, a tourist destination. However, there is so much to see and experience in Saitama in terms of design culture.
One Note on the Cover : "Bird Cage" (Torikago), by Chiaki Morita
Words such as "trees," "rivers," "modest," "earnest," "strength," and "growth" came to mind a month into my research trip to Saitama. I had been looking for a cover image that best represented this prefecture — an image that perfectly captured the area's products, foods, landscapes, and architecture, that encapsulated the sense of coexistence that unites man and nature in Saitama. My search led me to the work of Chiaki Morita, who creates unique Japanese paper in Sakado City and who has considerable experience apprenticing at Ogawa-washi and Hosokawa-gami studios. Her work, which is built upon the traditional Japanese paper-making process, embodies both the strength and gentleness of Saitama. While creating a layout for this cover, we found that the paper's birdcage design serendipitously transformed into a river. (By Editor-in-Chief of "d design travel")
*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.
Saitama is the future of design, as it strikes a perefct balance between naturalness and aesthetics.
While traveling to Saitama for our research and interview, we began to notice the intentionality of the "untoched nature" in the Prefecture. All the river banks there have been dyked and are lined by groves that seemingly appearin a pattern along the roads. Standing tall, full of presence, as if they are protecting the land, ancient gingko and maple trees surround not only public buildings but also landmarks, such as temples.
Saitama residents are correct when they said that there is nothing special about Saitama: nature is not special because it is very much a part of the landscape. Saitama strikes a good balance between culture and nature, thus creating an ideal environment for people to live in. Saitama is not, in the traditional sense of the word, a tourist destination. However, there is so much to see and experience in Saitama in terms of design culture.
One Note on the Cover : "Bird Cage" (Torikago), by Chiaki Morita
Words such as "trees," "rivers," "modest," "earnest," "strength," and "growth" came to mind a month into my research trip to Saitama. I had been looking for a cover image that best represented this prefecture — an image that perfectly captured the area's products, foods, landscapes, and architecture, that encapsulated the sense of coexistence that unites man and nature in Saitama. My search led me to the work of Chiaki Morita, who creates unique Japanese paper in Sakado City and who has considerable experience apprenticing at Ogawa-washi and Hosokawa-gami studios. Her work, which is built upon the traditional Japanese paper-making process, embodies both the strength and gentleness of Saitama. While creating a layout for this cover, we found that the paper's birdcage design serendipitously transformed into a river. (By Editor-in-Chief of "d design travel")
*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.
Saitama is the future of design, as it strikes a perefct balance between naturalness and aesthetics.
While traveling to Saitama for our research and interview, we began to notice the intentionality of the "untoched nature" in the Prefecture. All the river banks there have been dyked and are lined by groves that seemingly appearin a pattern along the roads. Standing tall, full of presence, as if they are protecting the land, ancient gingko and maple trees surround not only public buildings but also landmarks, such as temples.
Saitama residents are correct when they said that there is nothing special about Saitama: nature is not special because it is very much a part of the landscape. Saitama strikes a good balance between culture and nature, thus creating an ideal environment for people to live in. Saitama is not, in the traditional sense of the word, a tourist destination. However, there is so much to see and experience in Saitama in terms of design culture.
One Note on the Cover : "Bird Cage" (Torikago), by Chiaki Morita
Words such as "trees," "rivers," "modest," "earnest," "strength," and "growth" came to mind a month into my research trip to Saitama. I had been looking for a cover image that best represented this prefecture — an image that perfectly captured the area's products, foods, landscapes, and architecture, that encapsulated the sense of coexistence that unites man and nature in Saitama. My search led me to the work of Chiaki Morita, who creates unique Japanese paper in Sakado City and who has considerable experience apprenticing at Ogawa-washi and Hosokawa-gami studios. Her work, which is built upon the traditional Japanese paper-making process, embodies both the strength and gentleness of Saitama. While creating a layout for this cover, we found that the paper's birdcage design serendipitously transformed into a river. (By Editor-in-Chief of "d design travel")
*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.
Saitama is the future of design, as it strikes a perefct balance between naturalness and aesthetics.
While traveling to Saitama for our research and interview, we began to notice the intentionality of the "untoched nature" in the Prefecture. All the river banks there have been dyked and are lined by groves that seemingly appearin a pattern along the roads. Standing tall, full of presence, as if they are protecting the land, ancient gingko and maple trees surround not only public buildings but also landmarks, such as temples.
Saitama residents are correct when they said that there is nothing special about Saitama: nature is not special because it is very much a part of the landscape. Saitama strikes a good balance between culture and nature, thus creating an ideal environment for people to live in. Saitama is not, in the traditional sense of the word, a tourist destination. However, there is so much to see and experience in Saitama in terms of design culture.
One Note on the Cover : "Bird Cage" (Torikago), by Chiaki Morita
Words such as "trees," "rivers," "modest," "earnest," "strength," and "growth" came to mind a month into my research trip to Saitama. I had been looking for a cover image that best represented this prefecture — an image that perfectly captured the area's products, foods, landscapes, and architecture, that encapsulated the sense of coexistence that unites man and nature in Saitama. My search led me to the work of Chiaki Morita, who creates unique Japanese paper in Sakado City and who has considerable experience apprenticing at Ogawa-washi and Hosokawa-gami studios. Her work, which is built upon the traditional Japanese paper-making process, embodies both the strength and gentleness of Saitama. While creating a layout for this cover, we found that the paper's birdcage design serendipitously transformed into a river. (By Editor-in-Chief of "d design travel")
*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