TOMOAKI YANAGISAWA
My design focus is on tangible and intangible spaces between people and environments. Design as a medium has the ability to bring these relationship closer. I am trying to construct a new medium between people and spaces, thus creating intuitive social interactions.
Born in Japan, 1980
Live and Work in London, UK 2003- 2007
Now working in Japan
Education
| 2007-2004 | MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 2004-2003 | Diploma in English Language for the Arts and Sciences, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK |
| 2003-1999 | BA Department of Design Informatics, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
Exhibition and Performance
2008
Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, New York, US
2007
100% Futures, 100% Design, London Design Festival, Earls Court 2, London, UK
iconoclasm.jp, London Design Festival, Bodhi Gallery, London, UK
The Great Exhibition 2007, Royal College of Art Summer Show, Hyde Park, London, UK
iPROJECTmyCORKING -sonorous son- , National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland (Sound Work)
Unexpected Life Drawing, Blacknell Gallery, Blacknell, UK (Sound Work)
2006
iconoclasm.jp, London Design Festival, Ada Gallery, London, UK
SEVEN IDEAS, Embassy of Japan, London, UK
2005
MA Interaction Design Work in Progress, Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003
KINPIKA City Night, Nakano Heavy Sick Zero, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
Designing for "Design", Graduation Works Exhibition, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2002
MAU Art Festival, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
Work in Progress 2002, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Chanpon Rock Festival, Morgana, Kokubunji, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
27℃++, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2001
A Open-Air Live Festival, MAU Art Festival, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
Wok in Progress 2001, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
yoi no iro, Bar Drop, Kichijyoji, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
theme of 11 with Ryota Noro, "11" Short Film 11min directed by Naoki Abe, Film Festival 2001, Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan (Sound Work)
yoi no iro, Bar Drop, Kichijyoji, Tokyo, Japan (Live Performance)
Media
2008
urbane magazine, China2007
AXIS magazine vol.130, Japan
o2+, POL Oxygen magazine, Australia
"TABURET" magazine, Russia
New Italian Blood, http://www.newitalianblood.com/
2006
we make money not art
Experience
2007
Interpreter/Teaching Assistant, Roger Ibars Workshop, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Interpreter/Teaching Assistant, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby Workshop, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Mattel University Design Summit, Mattel, LA, US