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Tokyo Designers Week

Tokyo Designers Week is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tokyo Designers Week rather than just read about it. In short: Tokyo Design Week (TDW), formally known as Tokyo Designers Week, was an annual design event that occurred from 2005 to 2016, at Meiji Jingu Gaien in central Tokyo, Japan. The event featured product design, interior design and had expanded to include art and graphic design as well as short films.

Key takeaways

Tokyo Designers Week belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tokyo Designers Week to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tokyo Designers Week from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Tokyo Design Week (TDW), formally known as Tokyo Designers Week, was an annual design event that occurred from 2005 to 2016, at Meiji Jingu Gaien in central Tokyo, Japan. The event featured product design, interior design and had expanded to include art and graphic design as well as short films. Since 2005, Tokyo Design Week had been held at Meiji Jingu Gaien, near Gaienmae Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

History Originally named Tokyo Designers Week, the event began in 1995 as a trade show for interior and product design, taking inspiration from trade shows like Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy. Before 2005, the event was held on the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo bay. In recent years the show was opened to the public and added extra categories to include all aspects of art and design. Two key fairs within Tokyo Design Week for many years were: 100% Design and DesignTide.

Closure In 2016 there was an accidental fire that occurred at Tokyo Designers Week, when a five-year-old boy was playing on a design structure and it caught fire, killing the child. As a result of the fire, the 2017 Tokyo Designers Week event was cancelled. In fall of 2017, with the future unknown for Tokyo Designers Week, a new festival in Tokyo was launched as a response, the Designart Festival.

Tokyo Designers Week in 2010 2010 was the 25th anniversary of the event. TDW attracted designers and visitors from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, and across Japan. TDW was held from October 29 to November 3, despite a typhoon striking Japan, the event only closed for one day.

Creative direction For the first time Tokyo Designers Week 2010 was guided by a single creative director, the Tokyo-based French designer, Gwenael Nicolas. Building upon previous years eco and “Green” themes, the philosophy of the show changed in direction to include a broader view of “Environmental design” signified by a change in color to “Blue”. Environmental design categories

Earth, featuring collaborations with charities such as WWF Heart, featuring art installations Living, featuring cutting edge product designs

Exhibitions Graphic and Visual Design competition based on WWF red-list of endangered animals Container exhibition, utilizing recycled shipping containers as temporary gallery spaces Designboom mart Trend Union conference "Cool Japan", Tokyo conference Shop exhibition around the Omotesando district of Tokyo. Including a WWF inspired stamp rally. Student exhibition, showcasing the works of Japanese art and design colleges. TDW Art exhibition, featuring modern Japanese art including the likes of Takeshi Murakami. Professional exhibition, where practicing designers could show their works. Nakadai project, a recycling project involving industrial waste The New York based Bicycle Film Festival toured Japan as part of TDW, short films were shown at the main event site.

Awards in 2010 More than 6000 artists and designers submitted their works and projects in the competition. Each category had at least more than 500 submissions. 10-15 works were selected as finalists for each category exhibition. To promote the broader idea of environment, meaning a lot more than "Eco", two new Environmental Design Awards were introduced for 2010; Artist of the year and designer of the year.

Artist of the year 2010: Tokujin Yoshioka Designer of the year 2010: Thomas Heatherwick

See also imm Cologne (internationale möbelmesse) DesignTide Professional Lighting Designers Association Salone del Mobile

References

External links "TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 東京デザインウィーク". Tdwa.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tokyo Designers Week

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tokyo Designers Week claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tokyo Designers Week before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tokyo Designers Week ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tokyo Designers Week

In research: Tokyo Designers Week appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tokyo Designers Week in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tokyo Designers Week is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Design events, Festivals in Tokyo, Furniture, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tokyo Designers Week outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tokyo Designers Week in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Tokyo Designers Week means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Tokyo Designers Week out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tokyo Designers Week in simple terms?

Why does Tokyo Designers Week matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tokyo Designers Week?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tokyo Designers Week.