In collaboration with Whatever, Kudos Design Collaborative, and Conduit Projects, we launched KASA, a creative unit that plans and develops interactive experiences for museums and public spaces, and produced permanent interactive installations for Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to poster art, which opened in New York in June 2019. https://posterhouse.org/ Poster House aims to present the history of poster art around the world, from the 1800s to the present, through exhibitions, events, and publications, and to pass on to future generations the social impact brought about by graphic design. Poster Wall — A 4K digital display that randomly shows high-resolution posters every few seconds from the museum’s extensive poster collection. Visitors can also select content themselves using buttons. Poster Wall is equipped with a dedicated management system that allows museum staff to easily add and update collection items through the system. Poster Machine — A digital installation that lets visitors experience the poster-making process as if they were graphic designers. At each step of the process, it explains the importance of the basic elements needed to create a poster—such as symbols, colors, phrases, fonts, and design styles—as well as design thinking. It makes it possible to design more than 143,000 different posters.

Description: Puppet Guts is an internal organ-shaped plush toy that can be inserted into hand puppets for play. When they are not being played with by humans, puppets are essentially “empty” and dead-like, but by stuffing them with cute Guts (internal organs), you can “breathe life” into them. We are currently running a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for mass production, so please support us! http://kck.st/2Gmt545

I was responsible for the overall direction of the special exhibition “I LOVE MAX MARA” for the Italian fashion brand Max Mara. The I LOVE MAX MARA exhibition was held from October 26 to November 10, 2018, at Hankyu Umeda Hall in Osaka. The aim was to blend extensive archival materials telling the story of the brand’s history and meticulous craftsmanship with digital content. As the highlight of the event, we created a 5-meter-tall “teddy bear coat” using 3D scanning. When visitors selected a coat color, an animation inspired by that color was projected in 360° onto the giant coat via projection mapping. We also planned and developed a variety of other experiences, including a fashion show utilizing that installation and a digital installation in another area where visitors could create their own maxmaragram using their name.