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Nikkei Design

March 2007

Cover Story

Design Promotion

 

SPECIAL FEATURE 1

Design in Japan -- A Developed Country or a Developing Country?

Don't Get Left Behind by the Wave of Support, Protection and Education!

 

Japan's design is at the world's highest levels. High-level designs can be seen in numerous fields including traditional crafts, mature industries, cutting-edge technology, service industries, and the media, but what is the status of the social environment surrounding design?

How does Japanese politics approach design as a national policy? Also, what programs do government agencies administer to foster industry that uses design? What training and education is conducted to spread understanding of the importance of design to every corner of society? We cannot examine the future prospects of design in Japan without raising these issues.

Looking at the social environment surrounding design, we cannot necessarily conclude that Japan is an advanced country. There are aspects where Japan lags not only behind the advanced countries of Europe and America, but also the industrial countries of Asia that are striving to catch up and move ahead. Recently, however, systems and organizations that support design have been created or improved.

(Kazuya Shimokawa, Kenichiro Ota, Hiroshi Maruo)

Prologue: 10 years in Japan, UK, and Korea

Chapter 1: Supporting Design

Part 1. Guide to Programs Supporting Design in Japan

Part 2. Promotion Agencies Exercise Leadership in South Korea

Part 3. The U.K. Sells Design to Japan and the World

Chapter 2: Protecting Design

Part 1. From Finance to Investment Funds! Design Rights Create Value

Part 2. Guide to Programs Protecting Design Rights in Japan

Chapter 3: Design Education

Part 1. Starting at Age Five! Design Education Compulsory in the UK

Part 2. Takaoka City Launches Design Education in Elementary and Middle Schools

Part 3. Design Information Disseminating from Roppongi

Part 4. The Role of Design Museums in America and the U.K.

Part 5. The Museum Shop as "Education"

Chapter 4: Six Proposals from Nikkei Design

 

SPECIAL FEATURE 2

"Domestic and Overseas Design Competition and Award Information"

Awards to Pursue in 2007

 

Challenge of a Design Venture -- From Remote Country Town to the World - Vol.2

Yamagata Koubou, Yamagata Prefecture

Nikkei Design Interview

Issey Miyake

Insightful Questions to the Real World from the Design Site

 

COLUMNS

Telling a Story Without Being Asked: Akiko Takehara

Open-Air Skating Rinks in Paris

 

 

Design Marketing

Focus on current Japanese-style by generation, sex, and earning power

Single women in their mid-20s earning less than 2 million yen a year

 

Nikkei Design

March 2007

Cover Story

Design Promotion

 

SPECIAL FEATURE 1

Design in Japan -- A Developed Country or a Developing Country?

Don't Get Left Behind by the Wave of Support, Protection and Education!

 

Japan's design is at the world's highest levels. High-level designs can be seen in numerous fields including traditional crafts, mature industries, cutting-edge technology, service industries, and the media, but what is the status of the social environment surrounding design?

How does Japanese politics approach design as a national policy? Also, what programs do government agencies administer to foster industry that uses design? What training and education is conducted to spread understanding of the importance of design to every corner of society? We cannot examine the future prospects of design in Japan without raising these issues.

Looking at the social environment surrounding design, we cannot necessarily conclude that Japan is an advanced country. There are aspects where Japan lags not only behind the advanced countries of Europe and America, but also the industrial countries of Asia that are striving to catch up and move ahead. Recently, however, systems and organizations that support design have been created or improved.

(Kazuya Shimokawa, Kenichiro Ota, Hiroshi Maruo)

Prologue: 10 years in Japan, UK, and Korea

Chapter 1: Supporting Design

Part 1. Guide to Programs Supporting Design in Japan

Part 2. Promotion Agencies Exercise Leadership in South Korea

Part 3. The U.K. Sells Design to Japan and the World

Chapter 2: Protecting Design

Part 1. From Finance to Investment Funds! Design Rights Create Value

Part 2. Guide to Programs Protecting Design Rights in Japan

Chapter 3: Design Education

Part 1. Starting at Age Five! Design Education Compulsory in the UK

Part 2. Takaoka City Launches Design Education in Elementary and Middle Schools

Part 3. Design Information Disseminating from Roppongi

Part 4. The Role of Design Museums in America and the U.K.

Part 5. The Museum Shop as "Education"

Chapter 4: Six Proposals from Nikkei Design

 

SPECIAL FEATURE 2

"Domestic and Overseas Design Competition and Award Information"

Awards to Pursue in 2007

 

Challenge of a Design Venture -- From Remote Country Town to the World - Vol.2

Yamagata Koubou, Yamagata Prefecture

Nikkei Design Interview

Issey Miyake

Insightful Questions to the Real World from the Design Site

 

COLUMNS

Telling a Story Without Being Asked: Akiko Takehara

Open-Air Skating Rinks in Paris

 

 

Design Marketing

Focus on current Japanese-style by generation, sex, and earning power

Single women in their mid-20s earning less than 2 million yen a year