Daijiro Mizuno
Daijiro Mizuno is a design researcher and an assistant professor in Keio University’s SFC X Design program.
Mizuno studied at the Royal College of Art in London where he earned a Ph.D. in fashion design. His research looks at design in the broad spectrum, from architecture to fashion design in order to explore how visual arts can make positive impacts on the society. Based on the sociological theories of consumption, production, and reproduction in the context of fashion as social phenomena, Mizuno's work attempts to bridge the discrepancy between practice and theory through research.
In addition to teaching, Mizuno is currently involved in diverse design research projects, including Research for Relational Dignity, dedicated to developing new services and products for social inclusion (project director), supported by Pfizer (2010); DesignEast, a design symposium (committee member); FabLab Japan, a fabrication laboratory that uses digital technologies to envision the future of manufacturing; Fashionista, a magazine of fashion criticism based in Japan and debuting in 2012 (co-editor, with Hiroshi Ashida); and Design for the Mundane World, a revisiting of the concept of “Super Normal” with Sosuke Nakabo (project director).
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New Book Release, June 30, 2014: Supernew Supergraphics
Shows how the current generation of designers and architects are blasting typography and graphic forms across walls—even landscapes. A compendium of graphic excess on a monumental scale, it features new work from around the globe, and interviews with leading practitioners Felice Varini, Sascha Lobe, Sara De Bondt, and Boa Mistura.
Tony Brook, Adrian Shaughnessy, and Sarah Schrauwen, eds.
Published by Unit Editions
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New Book Release, May 27, 2014: Type on Screen
The long awaited follow-up to graphic designer Ellen Lupton’s best-selling Thinking with Type is here. The definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications.
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Ellen Lupton
Published by Princeton Architectural Press
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New Book Release (U.S.), June 30, 2014: BMW Art Cars
Traces the development of the BMW Art Cars, the so-called “rolling sculptures” designed by artists including Alexander Calder, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol over the last 40 years.
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Thomas Girst, editor
Texts by Carl Magnusson, Phil Patton, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz
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New Book Release, July 1, 2014: The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary
Just what is it that catches the eye, and why? What’s the significance of a broken flowerpot, a pair of identical tables side by side, a garden hose wrapped around an old car wheel? In this collection of photo essays, designer Jasper Morrison examines and imagines the life behind a series of seemingly ordinary situations.
By Jasper Morrison
Published by Lars Müller Publishers
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New Book Release, April 21, 2014: Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer
Explores notions of representation in the discipline of landscape architecture at large and across time.
Diana Balmori
Published by John Wiley & Sons
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New Book Release (U.S.), May 1, 2014: Shape of Sound
Architect Victoria Meyers analyzes the shape of sound; architecture and sound; form; materiality; windows; the urban soundscape, its politics, aesthetics and social character; reflection; virtuality; sound art; and silence.
Victoria Meyers
Published by Artifice Books on Architecture
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