Product Design/2008/34 min/Reel № 08.001
ByToshiyuki Kita
Toshiyuki Kita on user-friendly product design
South African Design Week/Recorded 2008
A close reading, kept within reach.
Toshiyuki Kita takes product design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in International in 2008, the conversation is grounded in Toshiyuki's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
In Japan good design is regarded as a valuable resource. Toshiyuki Kita talks about this notion.
About the speaker
Toshiyuki Kita
International
Kita has created anything from furniture, household goods and appliances to LCD TVs and robots for clients including Cassina, Moroso, Sharp and Stokke.
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