An Art Festival To Help You Find Your Passions. How To Enjoy "Design Festa"!
Design Festa is an event that mixes a huge variety of original goods coming from different genres. It features apparel, goods, illustration, photographs, live painting sessions, workshops and much more. It's also one of the largest international art events in Asia, and it has been held twice a year since 1994 at Tokyo Big Sight.
As a rule, anyone can participate the exhibition as long as they feature original works. You can really find anything: items overflowing with great ideas, such as original accessories, real leather bags, stuffed animals and so on. Although the event itself might sound like a bigger, fancier flea market, the word design puts everything into a different perspective and makes it kind of hard to imagine what the event actually feels like.
"I don't understand design, can I still go to Design Festa?"
"Wait, what's Design Festa?"
"What should I do to enjoy the event?"
Today we will try to simulate the flow of someone attending Design Festa. The theme of the day will be "The quest for a kawaii and delicious taste! Enjoying Design Festa through 5 senses★".
After getting to Tokyo Big Sight, let's aim for tickets and pamphlets.
After picking up the exhibition pamphlet, you're free to go wherever you want! Still... Before getting too excited, you should take a look at the picture below.
From kawaii to steampunk. Find what you love!
If your feet or eyes are tired, take a break at the food court.
Introducing real exhibitors!
"Booth name" (Genre)
1. What kind of things are you creating?
2. What would you like visitors to notice in your works?
3. What's the best thing about Design Festa?
"Kōen Yūgu Kiroku (公園遊具記録)" (Photography)
2. I'm happy when people appreciate my works, but I'd also like them to visit the parks that I'm portraying in my photographs.
3. It's a very open event, that features things from different genres and gathers a huge variety of people.
"LIMITS Digital Art Battle (LIMITSデジタルアートバトル)" (Performance)
2. I would like visitors to witness the creation of a work of art right in front of their eyes.
3. It's very simple: it's an event that gathers creators and fans from every corner of Japan.
"NANI COLLECTION" (Performance)
2. Some parts are a pre-made choreography, but many times we just improvise according to the atmosphere of the place. Every performance is unique, and we'd like visitors to enjoy every single smile-inducing movement.
3. The event gathers a multitude of people in the name of creative curiosity, and we find it very exciting. Furthermore, it touches various innovative ideas across various genres and different way of expressing oneself. The influence that touching new forms of art can have on a person is incredible. As creators, we find it very fascinating to be in a place that incentives creative motivation.
2. Our show doesn't only focus on clothes. We also want to draw attention to the performance itself, by adding a little bit of acting and dancing. I used to be a dancer at Disneyland, so I tried to add a theme park element to it.
3. The event lets people express themselves in so many different ways! It's also fun to create some completely new things together with other creators you meet at Design Festa. I'm also always looking forward to seeing what the food court offers, in Spring and in Autumn. That's because we do our meeting in the food court!
2. I'd like them to look at the overall booth atmosphere and to enjoy my world view. I've set up this booth and goods in order to relieve the stress of the visitors, even if just for the days of the event.
3. It connects artists and fans coming from all over the country. Every time I come here, I can meet my favorite artists and make many new encounters.
2. I would like people to enjoy my salamander goods.
3. There are many exhibitors. It's an event that lets you meet plenty of creators and take a look at a huge variety of works.
"Red Chocolate Lab" (Miscellaneous)
2. I'd like visitors to get distinctive color sensations from the illustrations and to enjoy these characters, with their different personalities and charm.
3. The event gathers various genres of "design" and "art", and it's very stimulating for both exhibitors and visitors. It's also a very good opportunity to get closer to the concepts of "design" and "art". You can make new discoveries, and communicate with many different people. Every time I participate in this event is different from the one before. I always make new encounters.
2. We'd like to offer a taste of different kinds of cuisine through our "World Rusks". We took unique dishes and spices from every corner of the world and made them into rusk biscuits. Our recipes are all exclusively made for Design Festa.
3. Everyone has an opportunity here. It's the perfect place to show everybody your work, what you want to do and what you want to express.
A treasure box where you can find your own new passions
Because of the experimental nature of this events, we could say Design Festa is, in fact, a treasure box. It's not always clear where the design is, or where the art is. But one thing is certain: as the name suggests, it's a festa, a festival, a party.
Manatsu no Design Festa × GAKUTEN2017 will be held from Aug. 5th (Sat) to Aug. 6th (Sun) 2017. It's going to be an entertaining event, and it's going to mix the mid-summer excitement with a school festival-like atmosphere. And since it opens at the beginning of Summer vacations, it's going to feel very different compared to the Spring and Fall editions. There are going to be summer inspired accessories, avant-garde dancing and photogenic shaved ice. What a beautiful combination!
"niitu" (Apparel)
1. My brand offers unisex contemporary Japanese-style clothes. The structure of the different pieces of clothing is similar to that of a kimono, very linear. The geometry I choose is very simple and applies to all body shapes. It's a unique, modern interpretation of ancient things.
2. Brand-specific cuttings and patterns.
3. The atmosphere, which is typical of Design Festa. Also, the many designers featuring their works.