SHOP AND CREATOR

An interior shop “Barden Barden” opened 13 years ago in Tokyo, with their philosophy “Japanese aesthetic in this modern ara”. The shop’s owner Chizuko Mori bought a forty-years-old small house to start the shop, and she repaired and renovated by utilizing the character of the two-story wooden house. She carries products of Japanese creators who have the aesthetic, and sells the handmade works in the Japanese-size small shop. From small accessories to big furniture, she promotes and sells creators’ handmade works in very well thought-out style as each of them is blending in the way of life. And many people as well as creators visit the shop to find “only one product”.There is no double that a creator will have a connection with a shop or exhibit space if he/she wants to promote or sell artworks. This book features 20 creators; from their creations, birth of the works, and to promote and sell their works. The shop cooperate the every step with creators, and this book shows you how artists and shop can be deeply connected together.

ISBN：978-4-86100-768-2 Price:1,800 yen + tax Page: 176 The author: Chizuko Mori ( Barden Barden http://www.badenbaden.jp/ ) Release date: 22th September 2011

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HANDMADE ZAKKA & CRAFT

With everyday material and a little creativity, you can make fun, original, and cute objects.
This book introduces you cute and easy ideas to make everyday life more colorful!
Learn the fun of creating room ornaments from paper and thread, accessories from felt, the most exciting party items, and picture collections to enjoy with families! Children also love reading this book with you.

ISBN 978-4-86100-777-4 Page 144 ( 4C:128 / 1C:16 ) Retail Price: 1,400 yen + tax Softcover with Jacket Release date: 21th September 2011


Lotta Jansdotter : Surface Designer (Brooklyn, U.S.A.)
Jenny Hallengren : Photographer (Stockholm, Sweden)
Meiko Takechi Arquillos : Photographer (Los Angels, U.S.A.)
TeDe : Furniture & Textile Designer (Oita, Japan)
Béatrice Peltre : Food Writer, Stylist and Photographer (Boston, U.S.A.)
Hello Sandwich : Designer, Artist, Crafter (Tokyo, Japan / Sydney, Australia)
Marisa Shimamoto : Photographer (Tokyo, Japan)
Yumiko Sekine : Shop Owner (Tokyo, Japan)

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typographics play & work-The present progressive form of 2D & 3D Typographies-

In the domain of graphic design, the typography is one of the important elements in all ages. That’s because the typography has always reflected the sensitivity of the time.
Today, various modes appear one after another through diverse kinds of media. The range of the typographic expression shows an expanse more and more.
This book introduces a wide range of typography works from letters considered to be the main role to letters used to be a picture. Likewise, it includes from a work of the handwriting to a three-dimensional work which is photographed.
In order to hand on the originality and the effectiveness of typography, this book showcases the cutting-edge creativity with a focus on the international works, regardless of type of media.

Art Direction: Masakazu Kitayama (HELP!)
Price: 3,400 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-770-5)
Format: 275 x 210 mm, 176 pages
Language: English-Japanese Bilingual / Release Date: 24th June 2011

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Girls Handicraft Dictionary

This is a cute visual dictionary of handicraft, craft tool, and material.
It is not for a professional but for who searches handicraft hobby, or who just started creating original craft works and wants to try many genres in handicraft using various materials.
This book is great to find new ideas and new genre of handicraft, and can also be used as a catalog as its listing practical information on tools and basic terms.

Price: 1,600 yen + tax ( ISBN: 978-4861007415 )
Format: 208 x 150 mm, 192 pages ( Full Color )
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 26th May 2011

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Masters of Nordic Designs - following their footmarks

Journey into Denmark, Sweden, Finland...

This is a photo document book following the footmarks of Nordic designs such as architectures, furnitures, interiors, graphics, and textiles, etc.
Masters of Nordic designs created functional and warm feeling daily commodities, modern architectures harmonize with nature, comfortable and beautiful interiors. Many of them focused on the design in lifestyle as not only featuring how they look but the scenery of lifestyle and time.
This book features Arne Emil Jacobsen ( Denmark ), Erik Gunnar Asplund (Sweden ), and Alvar Aalto ( Finland ), and visit places of scenic beauty, meeting with people who know those days and follow their real images and achievements. This book also includes a report of Nordic vintage auction and directory of Nordic designer brands.

Price: 1,800 yen + tax ( ISBN: 978-4861007385 )
Format: 208 x 144 mm, 176 pages ( Full Color ), softcover with jacktet
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 24th May 2011

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Handfont, Handwork-New analog style patterns-

In recent years, digitization has been advancing. On the other hand, the analog taste graphics which have texture and warmth attracts attention again. This book collected fonts and images which have new analog expression; includes analog taste hand fonts such as handwriting, drawing font, typewriting letter, etc...and the image such as a notebook, a sketchbook, a T-shirt, a board, etc… Through combining these fonts with these images, you can easily create graphic work with a little difference. Loosely taste is cool? You please enjoy graphics of such the new analog-style.

Price: 2,800 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-733-0)
Format: 148 x 210 mm, 232 pages (Full color), softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese-English Bilingual / Release Date: 25th April 2011
Including: DVD-ROM x 1

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minä perhonen?

－This book is composed of words and pictures and will tell you 15-year history of a Japanese fashion brand “minä perhonen”
minä perhonen was established on 1995 by Akira Minagawa, from the hope to make "special daily clothes". Their fabrication process begins together with the sketches of original textile. They have been continuing to produce the fashions contained poetry/story. When we put on their clothes, our feelings become lighter and uplifted. In their creation contained marvelous charm, minä perhonen holds on the original brand philosophy which defies stereotype of fashion world.
This book describes minä perhonen's accumulated history, their philosophy, and their challenges, through visual and words. Centered around 50 keywords such as "time" "embroidery" "imagination" "wind" "reflection", this book tells you about designers' passions and their perspectives tothe society or, uncompromised conversations during the fabrication process. Plentiful images of textiles, their atelier and factory provide a sense of reality to these stories. Atsuki Kikuchi, minä perhonens' graphic designer is the art director of this book. Through this book condensed their 15-year history, hope you will feel their unshakable belief which become a core of expressive expression on their creation.

Author: minä perhonen
Art director: Atsuki Kikuchi
Price: 2,600 yen + tax (ISBN: 978-4-86100-746-0)
Format: 184 x 240 m, 208 pgaes (Full color), Softcover with jacket
Language: Japanese / Release Date: 15th April

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