Special Feature: D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT 2005-2008 / Kenmei Nagaoka Long Interview / Talk with Tetsuo Matsumoto, Talk with Naoto Fukasawa [Japanese Only] / What is long life design? / Total contents of ‘d long life design’ / Long Life corporate marks in Japan / The Shape of Things to Come Vol. 1 Text by Takashi Serizawa, Design by Tokyo Pistol / A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 2 Manabu Koga / MeMe Design Journal Vol. 1 “From format to Layout” Hitoshi Suzuki and Tatsuya Ariyama, Design by MeMe Design School + Nakagaki Design Office

Special Feature: D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT 2005-2008
D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT 2005-2008Founded by Kenmei Nagaoka, Drawing and Manual launched their first office in Hongo, Tokyo in 1997. The company handles web, video, and graphic design assignments, while also searching for new business areas with long-term design development potential. It is their belief that design for living cannot exist without a firm basis in reality. In 1999, the company began to purchase preexisting high-quality, well-designed products from recycling stores and then market them on an experimental basis through their web store, “D&MA.” This initiative was so well-received that six months later, Drawing and Manual launched a new concept: their ‘dream design department store’. Named the D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT, the shop was a physical manifestation of their virtual resale shop. Filled with furniture, housewares, publications, clothing, and accessories, the shop was an immediate success.Today, the company is developing the D&DEPARTMENT NIPPON PROJECT concept further to create a chain of D&DEPARTMENT PROJECT stores in forty-seven prefectures throughout Japan. Furthermore, they are developing a ‘dream hotel’ project entitled D&MOTELS STORE, as well as a dining establishment enterprise called D&COFFEE.

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Kenmei Nagaoka Long Interview

D＆DEPARTMENT PROJECT 2005-2008
2000
TOKYO

2001
SAMPLING FURNITURE
ICG
D
DESIGN RECYCLE

2002
OSAKA
D&MOTELS STORE
D&DEPARTMENT DINING
USED G
KARIMOKU60
D&DEPARTMENT WEB STORE

2003
VISION’D VOICE
USED G 2
NORITAKE60
ADERIA60

2004
D&DEPARTMENT MEETING
D&ARCHITECTURE
D&FARM
ACE60
HOUTOKU60
ITOKI 60
60VISION

2005
LOFT JAPAN
WORKSHOP
G MARK SHOP&CAFÉ
RECYCLE MUJI
D&DEPARTMENT
D LONGLIFE DESIGN
MANA60

2006
REDROP or REUSE
DRAWING AND MANUAL > D&DEPARTMENT
KARIMOKU60 FRAGSHIP SHOP
POHHE, MARUNI60

2007
D&MOTELS STORE 2
D&COFFEE
D&DEPARTMENT NIPPON PROJECT
D&DEPARTMENT DINING
HOKKA60

2008
NIPPON VISION
D&RECORDS
MOONSTAR60
DESIGN BUSSAN NIPPON
http://www.d-department.jp/

Talk with Tetsuo Matsumoto [Japanese Only]

Talk with Naoto Fukasawa [Japanese Only]

What is long life design?

The Shape of Things to Come Vol. 1
Text by Takashi Serizawa, Design by Tokyo Pistol

A Cultural History of Contemporary Design Vol. 2 Manabu Koga
Text by Barbora + Idea [Japanese Only]

MeMe Design Journal Vol.1
“From format to Layout”Hitoshi Suzuki and Tatsuya Ariyama,Design by MeMe Design School + Nakagaki Design Office