design tide

tokyo design week was fantastic. an inspiring cross section of design talent from student competition to commercial venture. ping mag has a nice round-up of exhibits.



the design tide event was held in a great warehouse site just off omotesando. too bad about the carpet glue on the floors...






markus freitag _not_ talking about his bags and how great they are, _nor_ the history of his humble beginnings wrecking his mother's sewing machine in an apartment looking across an expressway, and _definitely not_ wanting to promote his merchandise in the free form 'pecha kucha' presentation, but instead talking about cradle-to-cradle design. and then he drew a picture on stella's freitag and signed it, making him an okay guy.











climbing holds, fyi.