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Design Tide invited designers Megumi Matsubara and Hiroi Ariyama from assistant to create a temporary space around the theme "Play=Communication" housing the work of 12 artist/designers at Tokyo's former Olympic complex built in '64. Referencing Greek mythology and the history of story telling, the creative direction drew on the idea of God's marionette (see sketch) falling from the sky as a loosely knitted structure that unravels into a giant ball of yarn as if a giant kitten had been playing with it. It wouldn't be authentically Japanese without an element of cuteness.

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Exhibition Space details

Original sketch

Photos: Frosty / Gustav Karlsson Frost