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d design travel SAGA
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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.
Discovering the dream of Saga.
Saga is full of old things that are constantly reborn and recreated as if they were new. Saga’s sense of design is unmistakable in its festivals, its pottery, its ruins, and its cuisine. It’s as if the people of Saga’s past are inextricably linked with those of its present, and those yet to come. The more I got to know this place, the more it seemed like a dream.
One Note on the Cover : Name Plates of Room in Arita Technical High School Designed by ALSED Co., Ltd.
We at d design travel have never commissioned a cover illustration. Instead, we take photos of products that have been around from the prefecture focused on each issue. For this issue's cover, we used the porcelain name plate that hangs in every classroom in Arita Technical High School, which is Masahiro Mori's alma mater. The day of the photo shoot was also the day of a school festival. "Honey-pop" by Tokujin Yoshioka, another graduate, were exhibited that day as well. This school that nurtures and graduates designers whose works are critically acclaimed on a global level. We photographed this place of accomplishment, confidence and massive potential as a representation of Saga Prefecture. Photographed on November 17, 2013
*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.
Discovering the dream of Saga.
Saga is full of old things that are constantly reborn and recreated as if they were new. Saga’s sense of design is unmistakable in its festivals, its pottery, its ruins, and its cuisine. It’s as if the people of Saga’s past are inextricably linked with those of its present, and those yet to come. The more I got to know this place, the more it seemed like a dream.
One Note on the Cover : Name Plates of Room in Arita Technical High School Designed by ALSED Co., Ltd.
We at d design travel have never commissioned a cover illustration. Instead, we take photos of products that have been around from the prefecture focused on each issue. For this issue's cover, we used the porcelain name plate that hangs in every classroom in Arita Technical High School, which is Masahiro Mori's alma mater. The day of the photo shoot was also the day of a school festival. "Honey-pop" by Tokujin Yoshioka, another graduate, were exhibited that day as well. This school that nurtures and graduates designers whose works are critically acclaimed on a global level. We photographed this place of accomplishment, confidence and massive potential as a representation of Saga Prefecture. Photographed on November 17, 2013
*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.
Discovering the dream of Saga.
Saga is full of old things that are constantly reborn and recreated as if they were new. Saga’s sense of design is unmistakable in its festivals, its pottery, its ruins, and its cuisine. It’s as if the people of Saga’s past are inextricably linked with those of its present, and those yet to come. The more I got to know this place, the more it seemed like a dream.
One Note on the Cover : Name Plates of Room in Arita Technical High School Designed by ALSED Co., Ltd.
We at d design travel have never commissioned a cover illustration. Instead, we take photos of products that have been around from the prefecture focused on each issue. For this issue's cover, we used the porcelain name plate that hangs in every classroom in Arita Technical High School, which is Masahiro Mori's alma mater. The day of the photo shoot was also the day of a school festival. "Honey-pop" by Tokujin Yoshioka, another graduate, were exhibited that day as well. This school that nurtures and graduates designers whose works are critically acclaimed on a global level. We photographed this place of accomplishment, confidence and massive potential as a representation of Saga Prefecture. Photographed on November 17, 2013
*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.
Discovering the dream of Saga.
Saga is full of old things that are constantly reborn and recreated as if they were new. Saga’s sense of design is unmistakable in its festivals, its pottery, its ruins, and its cuisine. It’s as if the people of Saga’s past are inextricably linked with those of its present, and those yet to come. The more I got to know this place, the more it seemed like a dream.
One Note on the Cover : Name Plates of Room in Arita Technical High School Designed by ALSED Co., Ltd.
We at d design travel have never commissioned a cover illustration. Instead, we take photos of products that have been around from the prefecture focused on each issue. For this issue's cover, we used the porcelain name plate that hangs in every classroom in Arita Technical High School, which is Masahiro Mori's alma mater. The day of the photo shoot was also the day of a school festival. "Honey-pop" by Tokujin Yoshioka, another graduate, were exhibited that day as well. This school that nurtures and graduates designers whose works are critically acclaimed on a global level. We photographed this place of accomplishment, confidence and massive potential as a representation of Saga Prefecture. Photographed on November 17, 2013
*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