d design travel FUKUI

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.

"Standards" in provincial Japan
Since ancient times, Fukui's distinctive culture has been shaped by its links to the outside world: the kitamaebune, the Saba Kaido, the Asia-facing ports of Wakasa Bay, and soon the Shinkansen. Nowadays, the times have caught up with Fukui, and it will no doubt have to keep updating its standards moving forward. But even amid all those changes, Fukui's character endures. That, I think, is what "Long Life" means for Fukui, and where its true essence lies.
(By Hideto Shindo / Editor-in-Chief)

*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

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