In 2020, Meiji Shrine in the center of Tokyo celebrate its centennial. To mark the first steps into the next one hundred years, Meiji Jingu Museum opened last year as part of the Meiji Jingu Centennial Festival…

Koichiro Kimura, who was born in 1963 in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, inherited the 400-year-old lacquer shop. He is tall, stylish and, once aspired to be a fashion designer, possessed a keen expressiveness that upended the notion of craftsmanship. In order to seek the cooperation with Kimura, the top figures of Nestle…

Mangrove Collective is a professional furniture customization, home accessories and wooden product design company and brand, located in Faridabad, India. Established in 2015 as a branch of Studio Lotus, Mangrove Collective…

Kim Young Jin is the Creative Director of the order made Korean wear hanbok brand Tchai Kim Young Jin and the ready to wear brand Tchai Kim. Her traditional hanbok and hanbok-inspired ready to wear designs…

Shirley Bhatnagar is a ceramics artist and Industrial designer based in New Delhi, India. Creates quirky hand-crafted works in porcelain and stoneware with a sense of humor. The work celebrates imperfections and…

The works of Japanese fabric designer Yuri Himuro are full of imagination. She designs fabrics as products with the relationship between them and people as…

Rinaldy Yunardi has been an established accessories designer since the year 1996 in Indonesia. His work has always been an infusion of classical forms and innovative shapes worked as a series of contemporary…

Cao Zhen, a Chinese cutting-edge designer and plant dyeing scholar, graduated from Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, under the famous Chinese design educator…

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“αGEL (alpha gel)” as a material taken up in “Asia Color Trend Book 2020-21”, attractive fluorescent color has been added to the…