Date : August 1 - 29, 2009

Location : 2-30-6 kamimeguro meguro tokyo 153 - 0051 japan

URL : www.happa.tv

Jo Nagasaka : Schemata Architecture Office Ltd. "ARCHITECTURE TOKYO 2009" created a full-scale walk-in, sleep-in architecture exhibit, the Happa Hotel.

The two single rooms are arranged vertically, with treehouse-style platforms forming the tables, chairs and nightstands. The whole construction (except for the hammock that serves as a bed) is made of the Styrofoam used in architecture models, reinforced with wood and metal screws. (This is earthquake territory, after all). At night the steel shutters go down, sealing off hotel guests behind the front windows of the gallery in a space four meters tall and only 55 centimeters deep. The brave individuals who sign up to be living displays are afforded some token privacy a small curtain and a key to the front door that also opens the bathroom not to mention a cool location in Nakameguro and what is probably the lowest room rate in Tokyo: 3,000 yen (about $32).

Additional amenities include a coffee shop (in Schematas meeting room), an artsy gift shop and lobby reading material supplied by the local independent bookstore Utrecht, all of which can be enjoyed by day visitors too. Overnight guests, however, are more likely to get a chance to drink their morning coffee with the creators themselves before workday activity transforms the rooms. Given the innovative 24-hour use of space and the extra monetizing potential.

kyouei design exhibited 'topography plate' . 'bulb lantern' and 'chandelier bulb' at this space.

Date : August 1 - 29, 2009

Date : reception party - September 26,2009. 19:00-22:00

Location : 1-7 gofukuchou aoiku sizuoka-shi sizuoka 420-0031 JAPAN

URL : www.floyd.jp

Space produce by kouichi okamoto

Floyd carries humorous items. Its showroom was renewal opened on January 2009 in Numazu,Shizuoka.

Kyouei design exhibited all products, and created a special lighting installation for the reception party.

Date : July 16 - 19, 2009

Location : Royal Exhibition Building 9 Nicholson Street Carlton VIC 3053

URL : www.designboom.com

URL : www.stateofdesign.com.au

as part of the cultural program of the state of design festival, designboom hosted a group exhibition of 30 international design professionals. for the first time in melbourne, designboom provided an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work. visitors were able to buy design souvenirs™ and limited edition pieces directly from the designers themselves. idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini / designboom.

Established in 2004, the State of Design Festival is the largest and most innovative design event in Australia and the heart of design thinking and design activity each year.

State of Design Festival increases the awareness of the value of design and showcases how design generates innovation, promotes sustainability and adds value to business and society. Festival programs demonstrate and broadly communicate how the Victorian and Australian design profession can improve living conditions, create sustainable development opportunities, and generate new and innovative products and services; in turn, providing economic benefit for the state of Victoria.

By communicating to Victorian, Australian and international audiences, the Festival promotes a deeper understanding of design capability and value. The Festival is accessed through a highly focused program of workshops, forums, exhibitions and events. A chief concern of the Festival is to assist designers in making their "offer" more appealing to businesses and to encourage those businesses engaged with design to communicate the benefits to their peers who are not engaged.

Date : January 11, 2009

Location : kobe fashion museum. 9, 2-chome, Koyocho-naka, Higashinada, Kobe

URL : www.ecological-creative.org

The E · C · O (Ecological Creative Organization) project has organized the event, the workshop, and the competition, etc. that are centered the creators and artists have been stimulated "Ecology".

"Ecology" is made "more Fashion" the one with their hands, and it aims at the activity that becomes one chance to work from the people of a young generation who bears the next generation to environmental problems.

The organization promotes and supports for the young creators and the artists through E · C · O project.

Kyouei design created a lighting installation for the stage.

LIVE artists

HARCO

Hako from THE MICETEETH

Kumiko Yanagida

Love Letter +1

Date : June 3 - 6, 2009

Location : terminal lounge 3-8-11 takanawa sinagawa-ku tokyo

URL : -

an old western style mansion 'terminal lounge' at Shinagawa with budding seven product labels which is with wide variation from interior to fashion. kyouei design joined and exhibited our newest products -glass tank, water clock-, and liquid bookmark and liquid lamp. kyouei design's theme was "the properties of liquid".

Date : March 24, 2009

Location : Laforet Museum Harajuku. 1-11-6 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

URL : -

JFW in Tokyo aims to strengthen Tokyo's functions as a hub for fashion business from the following perspectives:

JFW built a framework that will give young designers with an interest in the Asian market an opportunity to try their hand in Tokyo.

JFW will continue to improve operations to present fruitful meet-ups between designers, manufacturers, and the apparel and retail industry.

JFW pursue broadened business opportunities not only for fashion, but also for designs around life such as interior design. Tokyo will become a more exciting place to live and work.

Kyouei design created a lighting installation for the show.

Date : March 6 - 14, 2009

Location : B3F Space O, Omotesando Hills, 4-12-10 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

URL : www.magazinelibrary.jp

"We love magazine library", a magazine library / exhibit for magazines was held during a limited time and feature magazines from around the world. Visitors found fashion magazines, but also culture, interior design, lifestyle, photography, art, architecture, as well as independent magazines.

Visitors could read all the magazines on display, and subscribe to any of them at the subscription counter.

Vintage magazines such as "FEMINA", a French fashion magazine dating back to the 1920s, and "Seventeen", full of girly fashion from 1940s to 1960s are exhibited.

Kyouei design created a lighting installation and sound mix for this space.

Concept and Curated by David Guarino and A Zillion Ideas

Organizer Mori Bldg.

Date : October 30 - November 3, 2008

Location : TDW Main Venue - Meiji Jingu Gaien 2-3 Kasumigaoka Shinjyuku Tokyo

URL : www.designboom.com

idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini/designboom.

bring a designsouvenir back from tokyo! as part of the cultural program of the 100%design tokyo 2008 (october 30 - november 03) designboom hosted a group exhibition of international design professionals from around the world.

now in it's fourth year the tokyo mart, once again provide an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work. visitors were able to buy design souvenirs and limited edition pieces directly from the designers themselves.

from metal to ceramics, glass to fabrics, to recycled materials, with close to 100 beautiful objects on sale the mart achieved a good compromise between creativity and production.

Date : October10 - 30, 2008

Location : Jamsil Sports Complex

URL : sdo.seoul.go.kr

The Seoul Design Olympiad is a comprehensive design event prepared by the city of Seoul, the World Design Capital 2010.

On October 10, 2008, would class design experts and young design talents in various backgrounds in design such as public, industrial, fashion and graphic design will gather together in Seoul. This event was held at the Jamsil Sports Complex where professional designers and others from all over the world met and shared design ideas.

Kyouei design exhibited and created a lighting installation for this exhibition as an invited designer.

Date : Otober 10 - 14, 2008

Location : jamsil sports complex South Korea

URL : www.designboom.com

URL : www.sdo.seoul.go.kr

idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini / designboom

as part of the cultural program of the seoul design olympiad 2008 (october 10-30, 2008), designboom hosted a group exhibition of international design professionals from around the world. the designboom mart took place at the city's jamsil sports complex from 10 -14 october, 2008. for the first time in seoul, designboom provided an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work. visitors were able to buy designsouvenirs and limited edition pieces directly from the designers themselves. from metal to ceramics, glass to fabrics, to recycled materials, with close to 100 beautiful objects on sale the mart achieved a good compromise between creativity and production. in this initiative, the designers personally presented their wares, along with, various samples and a portfolio.

The Seoul Design Olympiad is a comprehensive design event prepared by the city of Seoul, the World Design Capital 2010. On October 10, 2008, would class design experts and young design talents in various backgrounds in design such as public, industrial, fashion and graphic design will gather together in Seoul. This event was held at the Jamsil Sports Complex where professional designers and others from all over the world met and shared design ideas.

Date : August 4 - 10, 2008

Location : anderson project studio GWALK SHOP HOUSES W2 - No. 31 SURABAYA Indonesia

URL : www.indonesianyoungdesigners.com

On December 4 to 10 August 2008, the Indonesian Young Designers (IYD) for the second time held a design exhibition, which this time take the crown "Indonesian Young Designer Week 2008: Design Market and Exhibiton". The exhibition is housed in andersonproject.studio, CitraRaya Gwalk Shop House W2 / 31, Surabaya, featuring the work of young Indonesian and international designers, both students and fresh graduates from several regions, from various disciplines of design, Graphic, Product, Fashion, Interior, Video, and others.

Date : July 12 - 13, 2008

Location :shizuoka prefectural museum of art, japan 53-2, Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka City 422-8002 Shizuoka Pref.

URL : www.spmoa.shizuoka.shizuoka.jp

for two days, the designer kouichi okamoto exhibited his work at the shizuoka prefectural museum of art. the show included two lighting installations; 'mobile light' and 'bulb latern' along with the unveiling of new works; 'plaster lamp'. 'water clock' 'glass wrap' and 'waribashi hashi'.

mobile light

a modular mobile unit which emits light using solar powered LED's. the fixtures emit become brighter automatically as the environment darkens.

okamoto created an installation with hundreds of mobile lights for the exhibition.

Date : April 16 - 21, 2008

Location : Fiera Milano, Rho

URL : www.cosmit.it

COSMIT organized an exhibition called "Tavole meravigliose - Marvellous tables" that was held during the Salone del Mobile, from April 16th to April 21st, 2008.

About 200 objects had selected by the curator Beppe Finessi according to his very personal and unexpected point of view. The objects displayed on long tables contained in four transparent boxes. The boxes placed along the main course of the exhibition ground where almost all visitors pass by.

topography plate was selected for this exhibition.

Date : February 06 - 10, 2008

Location : Stockholmsmassan SE-125 80 Stockholm, Sweden

URL : www.designboom.com

idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini/designboom.

BRING A DESIGNSOUVENIR BACK FROM STOCKHOLM!

as part of the cultural program of the stockholm furniture fair, designboom hosted a group exhibition of around 30 international design professionals from around the world. for the first time in sweden, the mart provided an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work. visitors were able to buy designsouvenirs and limited edition pieces directly from the designers themselves.

Kyouei design created a lighting installation for designboom mart.

Date : December 20 - 27, 2007

Location : COEX, Indian Hall #10, world trade center samseong-dong gangnam-gu seoul korea

URL : -

Hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government

Organized by Seoul Business Agency

Kyouei design participated as an invited designer. Seoul Metropolitan Government hosted Seoul Design Week from December20 to 27, in Seoul, Korea. Seoul Design Week be dedicated to the entire industrial design, including a design conference,exhibition and various events during the 8-day festival. Especially, the designation of Seoulis nominated for World Design Capital (WDC) 2010 competition by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) behalf on the International Design Alliance (IDA). Accordingly, Seoul Metropolitan Government would like to bring global attention to Seoul with strong design.

The Seoul Design Week is one of the projects like the purpose. Our government is preparing a lot of big business to make World Design Capital as renovation Street and building and so on.

Date : October 18 - December 7, 2007

Location : Lungomare Gallery via Rafensteinweg 12 I - 39100 Bozen/Bolzano Italy

URL : www.lungomare.org

Lungomare presents the exhibition "Storie di cose" in conjunction with a conference on the "Biography of the Objects", organized by the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano.

The project

The "Storie di cose" project takes place on two levels: a scientific level that will be accomplished in the conference "Biography of the Objects", and an applied project-related level that will take the form of an exhibition at the Lungomare Gallery. For the exhibition the Lungomare Gallery invites designers of different ages, places of origin and cultural affiliation who deal with the production and creation of objects, and asks them to submit an object of their choice, together with a biography of the object itself.

Concept: Angelika Burtscher (Designer), Roberto Gigliotti (Architect), Daniele Lupo (Designer), Alvise Mattozzi (Semanticist)

Aamu Song, Company, Helsinki, FI / Abake London UK / Azzimonti-Pigem Milano, Barcelona IT, ES / Martin Azua, Barcelona ES / Manuel Bandeira, Salvador BR / Fernando Brizio, Lisboa POR / Culdesac, Valencia ES / Luis Eslava, Valencia ES / Lorenzo Damiani, Milano IT / electricwig, Manchester UK / Patrick Frey, Hannover DE / Front, Stockholm SE / Alexis Georgacopoulos, Lausanne CH / Tal Gur, Kibbutz Gilgal IL / Ditte Hammerstrom, Kobenhavn DK / Sophie Krier, Rotterdam NL / Meric Kara, Istanbul TR / Kyouei Design, Shizuoka JP / Nicolas Le Moigne, Lausanne CH / Cecilie Manz, Kobenhavn DK / Peter Marigold, London UK / Miller Studio, New York USA / Nodesign, Sao Paulo BR / Polka, Wien AT / Adrien Rovero, Renens CH / Wieki Somers, Rotterdam NL / Sylvain Willenz, Brussels BE / Tesolin e Estadieu, Helsinki FI

Date : October 31- November 04, 2007

Location : TDW Main VenueMeiji Jingu Gaien 2-3 Kasumigaoka Shinjyuku Tokyo

URL : www.designboom.com

idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini/designboom.

BRING A DESIGN SOUVENIR BACK FROM TOKYO!

as part of the cultural program of 100%design tokyo, designboom hosted a group exhibition of around 35 international design professionals from around the world. in it's third year the tokyo mart, once again provided an unprecedented opportunity to meet the young avant-garde and become familiar with their work. visitors were able to buy design souvenirs and limited edition pieces directly from the designers themselves.

Kyouei design created a lighting installation for designboom mart.

Date : September 19 - 23, 2007

Location : 'designersblock, shoreditch high street.east london

URL : www.designboom.com

designboom presents handle with care 163 designers from 35 countries. as part of the london design festival designboom curated an exhibition of contemporary ceramic wares from established and upcoming international designers. since their origin ceramic works have expanded the functional dimension and contemporary production engenders ornamentation, sculpture and installation. the exhibition featured more than 500 ceramic objects,which express subjects and details of everyday life, their departure from tradition, the current conflict of ecology and consumerism.

Date : June 14 - 17, 2007

Location : Festhalle, Messe Frankfurt

URL : www.stylepark.com

organized by nicola stattmann.

Materialworks

We all know that materials are a key topic in design. Yet it is now emerging as the preferred topic. Something that seems more than justified. Materials have long since ceased to be regarded as just that, but rather as tools that play a decisive role in an object's design and appearance. Designers have long been aware of materials' potential versatility and take advantage of these qualities in the design and deliberate construction of their objects.

One particularly interesting field of material research in terms of product design is the change in a material's properties, for example, when particles that feature specific functions are added. Modifying a material's characteristics makes it suitable for use in totally different product segments or in completely new manufacturing and shaping procedures.

Paper is the material to be the focal point of the special exhibition designed for The Design Annual by Materialworks and Nicola Stattmann. This material, which is as simple as it is fascinating, opens up a whole range of qualitative characteristics and uses. It is employed in such disparate contexts as architecture, design, graphics, fashion, packaging and interiors as a matter of course. Paper is cost-effective, light, ecological, aesthetic, flexible and static, and available in large quantities. More recently, thanks to new developments, paper has even emerged as a high-tech material that can be processed, combined and produced quite differently. What will happen, for example, if paper has photovoltaic features, and is lasered or turns into ceramic in a furnace? The Design Annual will be construction a form of paper laboratory, in which experiments can be conducted on the tradition behind and future of paper as a material.

Honeycomb Lamp was selected for this exhibition.

Date : May 19 - 22, 2007

Location : spring 126a Front St.Brooklyn NY 11201

URL : www.spring3d.net

dark, light, suggestive, secretive - spring takes a look at what goes on in the dark

featuring :

Ron Gilad, Miwa Koizumi, Jason Miller, Kouichi Okamoto and Richard Saja.

with related photographic work by Jason Hwang and Christine Heinitz and related design pieces in shopspring by Elodie Blanchard, Citizen Citizen, 2 Create, FredriksonStallard, jimmyjane, Eva Menz and Mischa Vos

Date : mart : November 22 - 26, 2006

Date : biennial : November 22 - December 03, 2006

Location : ancienne Manufacture darmes de Saint-Etienne

URL : www.designboom.com

URL : www.citedudesign.com

the design biennial in saint etienne, france is the world's most impressive cultural-non profit-design show. as part of this event designboom hosted a group exhibition of international design professionals, some that you are already acquainted with and others that deserve to be noticed.

The Cite du design, public establishment set up in 2005 by the Saint-Etienne City and its agglomeration Saint-Etienne Metropole, aims to develop the uses and the benefits of design by increasing the meeting opportunities between professionals of the area, companies and private individuals.

This young institution fits the whole reconversion process of a city that has been the leader of the Industrial Revolution for two centuries. Product of the Saint-Etienne history, the Cite du design was born of a local will and a strong dynamism, initiated in particular by the Saint-Etienne higher school of art and design ESADSE (former regional school of fine arts ERBASE), that created the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial in 1998.

Date : December 9, 2006

Location : 21 gwangjang dong gwangjin gu seoul 143 708 korea

URL : -

produced by Zinoo Park

Date : May 20 -23, 2006

Location : new york city's jacob k. javits convention center.

URL : www.designboom.com

URL : www.icff.com

· idea, exhibition design by birgit lohmann and massimo mini / designboom

· sponsored by ICFF

as part of the cultural program of the ICFF, designboom hosted a group exhibition of international design professionals, some that you are already acquainted with and others that deserve to be noticed.

the 18th annual international contemporary furniture fair transform new york city's jacob k. javits convention center into a global design community's mecca. north america's premier event for contemporary design, the fair draws the most diverse assemblage of design professionals to an extraordinary display of the latest examples of design on the cutting-edge. during the four days, 145,000 net square feet(14,500 net square meters) more than 550 exhibitors displayed contemporary furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting,outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath for residential and commercial interiors.

Date : March 3 - 4, 2006

Location : shizuoka prefectural museum of art

URL : www.spmoa.shizuoka.shizuoka.jp

graphic by jesper larsson/next century modern

Okamoto held his solo exhibition at the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. On one floor, he arranged 15 TV monitors displaying the Color Light DVDs to create a sequential gradation. Other floors displayed many Honeycomb Lamps, be paper-based designs, and 200 Balloon Lamps hung together.

Date : Date : February 28 - March 4, 2005

Location : andra langgatan 5 gothenburg sweden

URL : www.nextcenturymodern.com

Jesper Larsson organized an exhibition for some of the creations of Kouichi Okamoto called "One Week &Three Items" in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Next Century Modern & Tokyo Style in Gothenburg presents the exhibition One Week & Three Items by Japanese music artist and designer KOUICHI OKAMOTO. Three items are exhibited: 1) BALLOON LAMP a nu-traditional balloon lamp based on Japanese Chochin lamps from the Edo period 2) COLOR LIGHT a dvd that turns any tv into a colorful installation 3) RANDOM a cd which played on random mode creates an infinite melody.