{"id":14373,"date":"2010-10-28T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2010-10-28T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T23:16:56","slug":"14373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/28\/14373\/","title":{"rendered":"New York’s Japan Society hosts design summit, MUJI minds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The MUJI book is in stores now. (\u00a9MUJI, Rizzoli New York, 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/em> JQ <\/em>magazine<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/a><\/strong> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Architecture, interior design and innovative household items take center stage at Japan Society<\/a> in November through its upcoming lectures The Design Difference<\/a> <\/em>and America Meets MUJI<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

For The Design Difference<\/a><\/em>, Japan Society’s U.S.-Japan Innovators Network<\/a> will gather architecture and design visionaries Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow<\/a> and John Peterson of Public Architecture<\/a> to exchange ideas in a bid to help solve some of the world\u2019s most vital social problems. Moderated by Designers Accord<\/a>\u2019s globally recognized innovator Valerie Casey, The Design Difference<\/em> is part of the Innovators Network’s two-day exchange program in partnership with Designers Accord, Common Ground Community and the Brownsville Partnership, and GOOD magazine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In its 30 years of existence, celebrated retailer MUJI<\/a> has made an impact as a global standard for goods of simplicity, practicality and sustainable design. True to its name\u2014shorthand for mujirushi<\/em>, or \u201cno brand,\u201d reflecting its lack of labels or elaborate packaging\u2014MUJI is mighty, with over 100 outlets outside of Japan. InAmerica Meets Muji<\/em>, internationally acclaimed designers Naoto Fukasawa, Kenya Hara and John Maeda discuss the concepts behind the creation, design and essence of MUJI.<\/p>\n

Along with Jasper Morrison, Fukasawa and Hara are the co-authors of the new coffee table book MUJI<\/a><\/em>. Published by Rizzoli New York<\/a>, the tome explores through illuminating essays and hundreds of photos MUJI\u2019s inner workings via its founding principle to develop new and simple products at reasonable prices by making the best use of materials while minimizing their impact on the environment. For the MUJI faithful, Fukasawa and Hara will be on hand after Wednesday\u2019s talk for a special book signing reception.<\/p>\n

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By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Architecture, interior design and innovative household items take center stage at Japan Society in November through its upcoming lectures The Design Difference and America Meets MUJI. For The Design Difference, Japan Society’s U.S.-Japan Innovators […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,40,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/skZ7m-14373","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14380,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions\/14380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}