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Design & Life | non-fat minizine | issue 03 Apr.13


CONTENTS | Design & Life minizine

D&L
News

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We provide the news that you
don't want to miss. This is
your basic protein.

12 Designers’
Circle

From A to B, from B to C;
it is the world of designers;
it’s designers’ circle.

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The
Moment
There are a lot of moments in
one's life. We treasure each
precious moment.

D&L
Lifestyle
Only enjoy the life

can make a difference.

1/2
Recipe
Cooking is Art. There are no
rules. 1/2 recipe shows you
the smartest way to cook.

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w w w. d e s i g n a n d l i f e . c o m

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Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne

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Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne

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Your ideal house - imm cologne
Imm cologne is one of the largest international
furniture fair. It is held in Cologne, Germany. Each
yaer, besides commercial aspect of the fair, they also
will invite designers to present their ideal houses
which gives the visitors an opportunity to know the
contemporary developments. Several designers such
as Karim Rashid, Konstantin Grcic, the Campana
brothers, Hella Jongerius, and so on, had been
invited. And this year, Zaha Hadid & Naoto Fukasawa
have been invited to show their point of view. While
Hadid set up a cave-like house growing directly from
the ground; Fukasawa developed a systematic space
with surrounding objects integrated into the wall.
www.imm-cologne.com
www.designboom.com/snapshots/cologne07/
idealhome_naoto.html






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Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne

Naoto Fukasawa / ideal house cologne


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Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne



Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne

Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne


Zaha Hadid / ideal house cologne


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02.
A reminder for the future
Where will you be in 5 years? Are you going to
marry him? Want to quit the job in 2 years? Or
you want to remind yourself to quit smoking?
Time is flying, and sometimes we just simply keep
forgeting things. Here is your life saver. FutureMe.
org is a fresh idea developed by 2 young fellas that
allows you to write yourself a letter to be delivered
at a later date. How cool would that be!

www.futureme.org

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03.
MONOCLE - Brule rules!
In 1990s, Wallpaper was launched, and since then,
it became the most popular trend magazine in the
world. And now, Tyler Brule, the founder of Wallpaper,
has done it again. Monocle is the latest magazine
by Brule. If you think Monocle is just an extension of
Wallpaper, you are wrong. The content of Monocle
includes Affairs, Business, Culture, Design and
Edits(A,B,C,D,E.) It tells you everything around the
world in a decent way. Want to know more about
Japanese Self Defence Force? Or want to know what
is happening in Oman? How about inside story of
Tokyo Midtown?
You might want to check this magazine!
www.monocle.com

Photograph by Jean Snow

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Tokyo Midtown grand opening!
Tokyo is always at the top of the world in terms of
fashion or trend. Before it is fashion, it is in Tokyo.
Few years ago, we saw Roppongi Hills had been built
up; last year, Tadao Ando's Omotesando gathered
the spotlights; and now, just half mile from Roppongi

Hills, Tokyo Midtown has grand opened proudly.
Besides fashion, Midtown provides more highend living needs, such as beauty, interiors, design
and unique restaurants. "It is not about people with
money, it's about people in Tokyo who have a sense
of discernment," said Tetsuya Matsufuji, the PM of
Tokyo Midtown.
www.monocle.com

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Designer's Circle | Design & Life minizine

Designers’
Circle
From A to B, from B to C;
it is the world of designers;
it’s designers’ circle.

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Hello! Mike & Katie! It's nice to have you here!

Your works are all so cute & colorful! How do

Please introduce yourself & TADO to our readers!

you start a character? Do they all have their own
story? Which character is your favorite?

Hi! TADO is our partnership, we specialise in
Illustration, Character Design, Animation, Toy Design,

thankyou! we really try to draw new characters all

and all kinds of other rubbish as well!

the time - sometimes they come easily, sometimes

We've been trying to think of an interesting story

its more tricky! we usually start with an idea for a

about what 'TADO' means, unfortunately the boring

particular part, like the eyes, or shape for the head

truth is that it's just parts of our surnames put

or something like that. we then draw the rest of the

together!! how embarrassing!

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How did you two get together?? Tell us a little bit
romance? XD
We met at University back in 2001 when a Uni tutor
of ours suggested we try working together. We hit it
off straight away and have been inseperable since!
These days we live and work together in our home in
sheffield. Its nice and we eat lots of nice things!!

character around this element. its not always that
simple though! :):)
some of our characters have stories, it depends on
what they are being used for. quite often they will
have stories and relationships with the characters
around them but we dont go out of our way to
explain this too much. we like to hear other people's
interpretations of them!
We're afraid we dont have particular favourites - it
changes every week!

What inspires you the most?
Our friends! we are very lucky to have some extremely
talented friends. knowing people who are busy and
active doing things they love keeps us excited and
motivated.

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As a duo, do you fight sometimes? over different
opinions??
Of course! we tend to squabble a lot and bicker about
work stuff because we know each other so well. we
are like an old husband and wife! haha! we are each
others harshest work critics so often we will disagree
Which project so far is your favorite? Could you

with each others ideas and have to find ways to work

introduce it a little bit?

around them. if we can't find a peaceful solution then
its fistycuffs! hehehe!

We really cant pick out one particular favourite - we're

Personally though, we've never had a proper

very fortunate that we enjoy pretty much all our work!

argument and rarely argue despite living and working

Often its the people we get to work with rather than

together 24-7!

the artwork itself that make the project a favourite
with us. That said, some of our personal highlights
would be the Smart Car project (most excellent

people to work with!), The Intermix Exhibition Project,
our 'Purity' animation, and more recently some
work we've just finished for a branding agency in
London called Communicator. The communicator
project was one of the bigger projects we've taken
on - it involved a re-brand of the company and then
the accompanying website as well. The client was
pretty much happy for us to go nuts with stuff and
wanted a rich and crazy flash site. The theme for
the project was 'channeled energy' so we created a
world that revolved around the process of growing
and developing ideas, as well as ecology. We teamed
up with some really good friends of ours Unwrong
who did all the hardcore coding and such which gave
the little guys who inhabit the site world artificial
intelligence. The site is set to go live in the next few
weeks, we're very excited to see it happen!

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Do you cook? What is your comfort food?
We aren't the most amazing cooks in the world, but
we do know how to make a mean pie - we tend to
prefer the eating side of things though!
Our comfort food would be buns from the chinese
bakery near us!

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What is your favorite restaurant or lounge or cafe

What do you do in your leisure time?

in your city? Why?
We're sorry to say we lead pretty boring lives! haha!
Our favourite cafe would be the 'Creamy Coffee'

most of our time is spent infront of our screens.

chinese bakery we just mentioned. It's the first one in

When we do get a chance to relax we enjoy mountain

Sheffield and their cakes and coffee are fantastic! Our

biking, going to see bands, looking after our fishtank,

favourite pub is called The Cask and Cutler. It's a bit

and restoring our tiny japanese honda car.

run down and a very traditional british pub. It's great!
Each week they have new guest ales and guest crisps

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as well! Lots of old men with beards talking about

As a popular creative team, you must travel a lot!

classic cars...

Which city is your favorite? Why?
Hmmm, thats a toughie! We do travel a lot but we
tend to go to the same places! We love hong kong
for its crazyness, and taipei for the people. We visited
Chicago last year which was really nice and very
different to what we expected. Dublin is our favourite
place for drinking with friends!

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What kind of music do you like? Which album is
a must-buy? Is music a big factor that influence
your works?

We like a pretty wide range of stuff - music is always
in the background in our home so we get through
a lot of it! We like to go and see bands play with
our friends - recently we went to see The Bouncing
Souls who were supported by The Draft. That was a
fantastic gig. If we had to pick one album it would be
Against Me's 'Re-Inventing Axl Rose'.
We're embarrassed to say that we're also huge fans
of Puffy Ami Yumi....

If you have 1 month vacation, how are you going
to spend it?
We'd hope on a plane and finally make it to Japan.
We've been trying to get out there since we left
University 5 years ago! Every year we say we will
go but never get round to it. We would love to work
our way round the whole country, finishing off with a
huge shopping binge in Tokyo. We have a lot of good
friends out there as well whom we havent seen for
a while. We'd go chill out with them and their mums
and dads!

You have involved in many different fields: web
design, graphics, magazines, t-shirts, interior,
Ads.... What do you want to do next?
We're always looking to find new and exciting stuff to
do. If we could choose anything we'd love to design a
crazy concept car for Honda, make our own clothing
label with properly designed garments, and open a

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store! We'd love to work for the council of our city,
Sheffield as well. There are some really run-down
areas which we'd love to make over! :D:D
You seem to be so happy and energetic all the
time! What's the secret?
A heady mix of coffee, buns and each others silliness!
We know how lucky we are to be able to do what we
do every day. Being able to do something you love
as your work and being able to do it together is a
brilliant thing.


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This chapter is designer's circle. We hope you can
introduce one of your friends who is a designer,
and will be interviewed in the next issue!
Could you introduce him(her) a little bit ?
Who is the best? Mike or Katie? Any more secret
to share? :D
Katie is best because Katie is always right.
hmm, any more secrets....?? fraid not!

After a lot of thought and deliberation we think you
should drop a line to our friends at ILoveDust. Mark
and the gang are very good friends of ours but a
total bunch of oddballs. They've been doing a lot
of amazing stuff recently and the company itself is
evolving at a crazy rate. We're sure they'd make very
interesting interviewees!

next on Designers' Circle : Mark / ilovedust

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The Moment | Design & Life minizine

The
Moment
There are a lot of moments in
one's life. We treasure each

precious moment.

s u m m e r

festival.

couples walk by the river
with sky brightened by firecrackers

million balloon
s with freedom
just like birds with no return
the passion of
the vendors
string those falling sakura flower
s

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all the vivid scenes

compose your sweet dreams

it's so true but they feel so untru
e

the

s u m m e r

festival.

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Paul Motian / I have the room above her
Nice record by Paul Motian. Featuring Joe Lovano(Tenor Saxophone), Bill Frisell(Guitar)
Great for summer night.

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www.ecmrecords.com
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Photograph by Shibo

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Photograph by Shibo

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SanYo Foods CupStar Fuggokuhan (Old-fashioned) Instant Noodle
Sanyo Foods re-produced old-fashioned instant noodle. It is from 32 years ago. Great soy sauce flavor!
www.sanyofoods.co.jp

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MUJI Old-fashioned candies
Another old-fashioned product from MUJI
www.muji.net

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ラムネ (La-Mu-Ne) marble icecream soda (old-fashioned)
Old-fashioned soda by Sangaria! Our favorite from childhood!
www.sangaria.co.jp

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D&L Lifestyle | Design & Life minizine

D&L
Lifestyle
Only enjoy the life
can make a difference.

Welcome to colorful paradise

www.marimekko.com


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Printed textile pattern is adopted by lots of brands again recently in the field of fashion. In this trend, Marimekko
who has been designed creative fabric pattern for 50 years is getting lots of attention. Especially the Maija Isola’
s unikko pattern of Marimekko, designed over 40 years ago, blooms as never before. With new colors and sizes,
Isola’s abundant flower has acquired a new, broadly audience and market.


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Marimekko was founded by Armi Ratua and Viljo in Finland in 1951. Marimekko means “Mary-dress”, and Mekko
is an old Finnish word means “little girl dress”. There is a further reason in the name: “Mari” is an anagram
for Armi, thus linking the company closely to its founder. Since the beginning, they have been encouraging
their designers to create unique and beautiful patterns and objects related to human environment. The basic
philosophy of the company is – Design is inspired by beautiful everyday life. Flowers, organic structure, and
nature are often being used as a subject for their creative design.
The distinctive fabric pattern shows its Finnish identity, which is strong colors and progressive design, and
created a unique company image.