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Matsui Minoru

A T Y P E FA C E I S A S U B S ET O F PEN TRAJECTORIES. Adding a completely new dimension to the world of typeface. Literally. ‹Trajectories› is a typevolume family and its 'strata' of typefaces. The typevolume consists of alphabetic types wrapped in curvature continuous Class-A NURBS surface.

It's never been easier to create a typeface by yourself. How can a type foundry make do in such an age of mechanical reproduction?

I see possibilities in representing the pen trajectories in its wholeness. Why bother draw bold, regular, and light weights while you can represent all of them in one 3D typevolume definition? With the slick NURBS bodies that represents typevolume ‹Trajectories›, one can infinitely generate any fonts as a mere set of sections of the each alphabet volumes.

Trajectories.

A Typevolume. Previously TypBrep as in Boundary Representative of a Type.

Contribution: 100% individual work for Morisawa Type Design Competition.

Around 3 weeks. Oct 2014.

‹ Trajectories ›

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Individual work as a part of group works of a joint project of design management lab in collaboration with Nonami Lab, Chiba U. Contribution: one of the design proposals among around twenty other design proposals.

Basic dimensions and configurations are based on the original hexacopter. Measuring current ‘mini surveyor’ model and 3d model for base line drawings. The hexacopters in question were build mainly for hobby use, and thus fragile, not well-balanced with lengthy spaghetti cords. These mildy ugly drones were expected to be redesigned with better aerodynamics, preferrebly with guards around propellers. Easier replacement of components in not-so-rare- occasions of poor landings.

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Infinite Surface.

A Glasgow School of Art product design course project.

A part of group works.

Individual work (extracted). 2 weeks.

Infinite Surface provides you with an unlimited plane to walk or run on. With rigid and fast omnidirectional treadmill inside, Infinite Surface lets you move freely not only in one direction but to turn around and start walking in the completely different direction without leaving the place for just one step off.

Infinite Surface grasps you: your position, your direction, your speed, everything. In real time. Turn around swiftly, Unexpectedly stop or start moving, and the Surface follows you, keeping you on this tiny little rectangle all the time.

Wear any kind of stereo-head mount display that supports SyncSurf ™, and now you are in the virtual 2D spaces such as 3D Google Street View, FPS games, and 3D CAD modelling to name just a few. Motion sensing input device recognizes your posture in 3D scanning algorithm and then feeds the data back to the linked Infinite Surface.

TINY INFINITE SURFACE.

冰像 A refridgerator. A concept design.

Contribution: concept, product, modeling , gestures, renderings, pretty much everything. As a part of works done in a group of two Chinese and I. Icons, logos and some of the textures were done by the other members.

The concept was developed for the premium brand, Casarte, of the world’s biggest manufacturer of consumer electronics, Haier. Joint workshop with Dalian University of Technology. The design requirement was a concept design of premium refridgerators.

Our approach was to import Carsten Nicolai’s 2015 work ‘chroma actor’ in Shibuya directly to facade of refridgerator. Although LED lights are so popular in the cities of China, the raster of LED lights act as both display and lighting elements. In addition to that, gesture control enables full control over hands-free opening and closing of chamber doors and changing display options.

A 10 day work. Nov 2015.

Cold Blood.

A wearable refridgerator. concept design.

Contribution: 100% individual work, as a part of works done in a group of two Japanese and two Chinese.

Joint workshop with Dalian University of Technology.

A 5 day work.

Nov 2015.

This quick project for chiba university hospital was aimed to propose a design to wrap up tiny plant factory modules that chiba university has recently produced. Designed by the department of horticulture and the

This clearly addresses the core concept of this styling : an anomaly

department of design science, this box-shaped mobile plant ‘factory’ is

is never a curse. It may be inconvenient, may be harmful, may be

intended for rather non-agricultural facilities, such as university hospital in

damaging , and most likely would rather be avoided, but never a

this case, to install. The wrapped up components are supposed to be placed

curse. It is essentially neutral. Placed the widely varied versions of

in line to function as partitions for waiting rooms.]

the plant factory exterior implicitly create the diversity

The shape is smooth and tender so that it meets the atmospheric requirement.

The whole equipment aimed to be a partition screen between hospital hall and waiting room, and mainly for children in pediatrics, it must be round enough to be safe even in rough use. The lights in the plant factory modules shine through the translucent material coloured in accordance to pluto, giving so

The initial insight is to express anomaly: the disease, the injury, the

much varieties to its appearance in 360-degree.

uniqueness... The cause of being in a hospital. Slight, yet clearly distinctive distortion of the smooth shape represents the anomaly,

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in in a cage, three plant factory modules,

Montblanc 320 fountain pen restoration.

2012-2013. Individual project. Product design, 3D printing.

Fountain pen in Japanese is called man(ten thousand)-nen(years)-hitsu(pen) which means that the pens are so robust that they remain ten thousand years.

Montblanc‘s 70‘s products are infamous for its resin parts being so fragile after years.

The only reasonable way to prolong their life seemed to be producing a completely new body for her...and it seemed just so easy to 3d printer...

Only to find out it wasn’t.

ruriko.jpn.ph A website – 2011.9

The website itself has been there since my childhood, but the site designed by merely a junior highschool stundent was not satisfying enough for today’s information society. Considering the difference between today’s monitor size and specs for rendering the pages, the brand new web site was designed to serve a better peek for the current readers and the furture readers.

This project was not limited to just the web designs. A brief branding design for the author as envelopes she uses for her marketing was created based on the concept of the web design using the same font and the same logo.

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keio, on the other hand, was planning to found a school from primary through early secondary levels in

the amount of students roughly decreased six ninth of the original plan.

aoba, yokohama, and conclusively scaled it down to merely an elementary school in an increasingly serious

synthesis

this design work starts from the idea of making effective use of a site that was planned to be a playground

financial condition.

the thesis concludes that steiner’s principles work as Corporate Identity for the entire community because

for the new keio elementary school that was dissociated fairly far away from the main classroom buildings.

the followers of his philosophy follow his art, then eventually they gain the identical identity in their own

what would happen if keio changed its mind that tiny little playground should be occupied by a tiny little

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K-12 waldorf school that provides 12 grades=classrooms for approximately 30 students each?

the form of the architecture was deeply inspired by organic architectures. what organic architecture here

i, who designed my graduation work based on his principles and design methods, am also one of the

does not mean the frequent usage of free-form surfaces. one of the steiner’s fundamental principles,

followers and the part of his vast Corporate/Community Identity’s branch.

background

‘architecture becomes human,‘ is strongly influencing the form of the architecture.

although waldorf education has gained certain amount of reputation among the people who are pretty conscious of pedagogy, it still cannot be said to be well acknowledged in general. founded by rudolf steiner,

strategy

an austrian philosopher, architect, and esotericist, supported by a manager of Waldorf Astoria tobacco

you might think that one classroom for each grades is too small for a k-12 school while ordinary waldorf

division, waldorf education was one of the important discussions on my graduation thesis.

school usually contains that small amount of students. it also adopts the popular waldorf school colouring

in the thesis the influene of steiner’s architectural designs and principles upon waldorf education was

strategy based on goethe’s chromatics and the gradually changing form of horizontal section of the

discussed from the viewpoint of anthroposophy.

classrooms as its grade advances, combined by japanese sense of space.

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at keio university department of science and technology faculty of systems and design engineering

k-12 waldorf school in yokohama, japan

2. Research Method

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In this thesis we analyse Steiner ’s architectural design, corresponding principles and his

The design part of this thesis shows how Steiner ’s process actually works. Adopting and

design method, by extracting the key concepts from his works, including his published

applying as many of Steiner ’s principles, as directly as possible, we propose a Waldorf

lectures and literatures. And then we analyse products by manufacturers following Steiner ’s

school in Yokohama as shown in fig . 5.

principles as shown in fig . 1-2.

3. Design Principles and Methods by Rudolf Steiner

7. Conclusion Because Steiner ’s art and design are not limited to themselves, they establish a style. The

While for Steiner, to do architecture in the same way as five years ag o was equal to g oing

follower ’s fig uration process and material adoption have g ained a recognisable, synthetic

backwards for a centur y (Ag ematsu, 1974). Throug h an analysis of his architectural principles

identity.

and design methods, we developed and documented over twenty years of his architectural

In order to understand further than just discovering the descending influence on

career, shows that they establish a rig orous and consistent, systematic matrix, shown in fig . 3.

manufacturers, we have introduced CI, even thoug h the conventional idea of CI today is

4. The Design of Associated Manufacturers

far, far away from Steiner ’s philosophy. Still, being encourag ed by Steiner ’s idea “Always adapting (the arts) to the ( industrialized ) real world,” we took the risk to endang er the

Many manufacturers associated with Steiner have been following those principles, seeking

artistic Anthroposophy to the means of profitable manag ement strateg y.

faithful compliance with his broader philosophy. Design is not an exception. The followers

The research 5 question was 6 implicitly dominating the thesis : ‘how the manufacturers

mainly refer to Steiner ’s architectural design principles and methods, as exemplified in fig 4.4 The matrix shows those direct relationships explicitly, as well as that some of the principles

associated with Steiner achieve a synthesis of the designs ?‘ The answer is, with the

and methods (eg . “House of Speech” and “Chromatics”) simply do not g et followed because 3

concurrent identity that bonds them strong er than CI, more flexible than CI, and more

of the difference of the means of expression. It proves the clear relationships between

sustainable than CI.

1. Introduction

2. Research Method

As manag ement of companies diverse, establishing a concurrent identity and imag e of the

In this thesis we analyse Steiner ’s architectural design, corresponding principles and his

the ancestor (Rudolf Steiner and his designs) and the descendant. In accordance with the

manufacturers, especially those of the major corporations, is one of the most pressing needs

design method, by extracting the key concepts from his works, including his published

principles and the methods, it is possible to compare any elements each 2 other.

for them. In this thesis we clarif y the direct connection of Steiner and his manufacturers in

lectures and literatures. And then we analyse products by manufacturers following Steiner ’s

5. Discussion

sense of principles and methods. After that, we point out the possibility of Rudolf Steiner ’s

principles as shown in fig . 1-2.

followers’ way of establishing their concurrent identity and imag e to be a part of the answer.

1. Introduction

design principles and methods by Rudolf Steiner, the manufacturers have accomplished Music

8. Bibliography Ag ematsu, Yuji. Architecture as The Perspective of The World. 3rd Ed., Sag ami Shobo,

This thesis identifies clear flows of inheritance of Steiner ’s principles and methods, ninety

1974, 335p.

years after the construction of his Goetheanum.

Ag ematsu, Yuji. 1998.3.25, Steiner Architektur : Und der Bau wird Mensch. Tokyo,

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Rudolf Steiner is unexpectedly unrecognised as a designer. Hig hly reg arded for his education

As manag ement of companies diverse, establishing a concurrent identity and imag e of the

Moreover, that approach (which stretches the meaning of the word “style”) has an incredible

system, commonly known as Waldorf education, he has also created masterpieces in various

manufacturers, especially those of the major corporations, is one of the most pressing needs

feature : it evolves. Unlike other styles (such as Modernism, which has emerg ed at the same

7 Carlgren, Frans ; Grosse, Rudolf ; Weissert, Erns ; Kling borg , Arne. 1982, Erziehung

field of design, rang ing from his blackboard drawing , via painting s and sculpture, to

for them. In this thesis we clarif y the direct connection of Steiner and his manufacturers in

time as Steiner ’s), Steiner ’s design g uidelines are v proving capable to transfig ure themselves.

zur Freiheit: dd. P dag og ik ArtRudolf Steiners ; Bilder u. Berichte aus d. internat.

architecture. But, his art and design tend to be difficult to comprehend, mainly because they

sense of principles and methods. After that, we point out the possibility of Rudolf Steiner ’s

Being truly human, and thus universal, Steiner ’s principles and design methods g et adopted

embody a ver y specific worldview, Anthroposophy.

followers’ way of establishing their concurrent identity and imag e to be a part of the answer.

and are successful in design of almost any kind.

Waldorfschulbeweg ung . Takahashi, Iwao ;Takahashi, Hiroko Trans., Stuttg art, Verlag Art 8

Rudolf Steiner is unexpectedly unrecognised as a designer. Hig hly reg arded for his education

Steiner does not seem to have consciously intended his works to be the design sources. Still

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system, commonly known as Waldorf education, he has also created masterpieces in various

we can feel almost the same feeling from his works and the followers’ works.

Nakai, Hisao. 1982.2.15, Schizophrenia and Human. Tokyo, Tokyo University Publishing ,

field of design, rang ing from his blackboard drawing , via painting s and sculpture, to

Designing identity is one of the most cutting -edg e, important, profitable, and yet not

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architecture. But, his art and design tend to be difficult to comprehend, mainly because they

accomplished field of design. While sometimes CI is even taken as a part of styling( Tanaka ,

Schuyt, Mike ; Elffers, Joost; Ferg er, Peter. 1991.5.20, Rudolf Steiner und seine

embody a ver y specific worldview, Anthroposophy.

2000), however, ideal CI establishes clear, unique, yet flexible identity of the corporation,

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which have been achieved by not so many companies around the world. Therefore the current

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methodolog y cannot be the answer for achieving it: on the contrar y, the answer is rig ht here

Steiner, Rudolf. 1957, Weg e zu einem neuen Baustil. Ag ematsu, Yuji Trans., Stuttg art,

in the thesis : the way Steiner created Anthroposophy and his works. What he achieved the 9

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best and only was synthesizing the cross-cutting designs. And so Anthroposophic design

Steiner, Rudolf. 2005.8.31, Steiner ’s Beautiful Life : from Architecture to Garment and

g oes throug h starting from shared principles via shared design methods to shared identity.

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