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21B STUDIO Exhibition HAKO
Japanese original:
21B STUDIO 個展「ハコ」
HAKO, a solo show by 21B STUDIO, is an exhibition of paper boxes. The care and delicacy a mass-produced box would leave out are deliberately worked into each one, to see how far the form of a box can change. Five companies in printing, paper, paper boxes and laser cutting helped make them.
21B STUDIO is a Tokyo design studio of three, Arimura Daijiro, Koeda Kobayashi and Tokioka Shotaro, and this is their first solo show. In 2021 they made an ink pad whose patterned surface, in traditional Japanese designs, prints the pattern into a seal impression, and they have carved paper with lasers ever since. A box that many people picked up at Featured Projects 2026 in Shinagawa in September returns here in a new form.
Besides paper, they have worked with used-up materials. In 2023 they turned the nonwoven cloth used to wipe waste ink from offset printing presses into fabric, and in 2025 they designed a mirror and a tray in a sheet material made from the pulp left after pressing Aomori apples.
At TIERS GALLERY (TIERS 3F) in Omotesando. Admission is free. Part of DESIGNART TOKYO 2026, until November 8.
1 / 4 Image: DESIGNART TOKYO
- Dates
- Oct 30 – Nov 8, 2026
- Venue
- TIERS GALLERY · Harajuku & Aoyama
- Address
- 東京都渋谷区神宮前5-7-12 TIERS 3FAbout a 3 min walk from Exit A1 of Omotesando Station (Tokyo Metro Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines), or about 4 min from Exit 4 of Meiji-jingumae Station (Fukutoshin and Chiyoda lines)Open in Google Maps
- Hours
- 11:00–19:00
- Admission
- FreeOriginal: 無料
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Credits
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Industrial designインダストリアルデザインThe design of goods made in quantity by machine: deciding a product's shape and use before it is made.Read moreClose
01About
The term was first used in the United States in the 1920s for specialist designers working on product design. Henry Ford's introduction of the production line in the car industry in 1913, and its later use for other goods, prompted artists to try to combine art and technology. Russian Constructivism and the German Bauhaus drew on the machine age, and the Bauhaus also shaped modern architecture; they stressed form following function and produced abstract, geometric designs. In Japan, the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA) is the public-interest association of industrial designers. Today the World Design Organization calls industrial design a strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation and builds business success, covering products, systems, services, and experiences.
02In the gallery
Pick an everyday product and imagine making a thousand of it: which parts look easy for a machine to repeat, such as even edges, joined panels, or a molded surface?
Wall label terms in Japanese
- インダストリアルデザイン
- Industrial design
- プロダクトデザイン
- Product design
- 大量生産
- Mass production
03Notes
Industrial design shapes a product for machine production and for use.
This time, at 21B STUDIO Exhibition HAKO —
On an everyday product, can you tell which part of its shape is there to make it easy to use?