Please tell us the difficult points when you designed the official picture language for the mobile phone company Docomo. What sort of things were you careful about?

Mmm? I didn’t design them for Docomo, actually… If I could design for them, it would be very cool. Please let me design, Docomo! J-PHONE!

Can you imagine the graphics that can be made 1×1, 2×2 and 3×3 pixels? When I was in Delaware, I presented my graphics and English fonts with 5×5 pixels as FONT-ARTOON. After that, I continued to design many things with 7×7, 8×8, 12×12, 15×15…, I produced many graphics that are like Docomo’s picture language. Afterwards, I thought I want to try to produce graphics with them. They are the newest merry graphic elements that everybody loves!

What did you imagine when you designed the cover for SHIFT?

The image that a family crests is great? The image that the Rin school is cool? The image that the cover is recycle? The image that Eri’s voice is cool? I designed this cover with these images.

You are taking part in musical activity. What is the difference between this activity and designing? What is the common point of them?

Music also has got the aspect of designing (It doesn’t implies the sleeves. The music of Kraftwerk has been designed, hasn’t it?) and I have been influenced by Kraftwerk’s way of designing the best. I design something with this influence. It is a common thing that both designing and music are considered to find philosophy. I feel the reason, which the power of current music is getting down, is lack of new philosophy. Thus I cannot get the power from the current music.

Please tell us your future projects.

I think I have done everything with the style of keeping a simple format firmly in Delaware. Simple means after all modern and modern sets consuming as a premise, doesn’t it? I have doubts about this style very much! This is because there are already Kraftwerk and Lichtenstein!

Not only simple, but also I feel I am against consuming with the unlimited variations and many kinds. So I feel like devoted to producing graphics! Of course, this is within I can make my living. In order to do this, pixels, webs and mobiles are my best partners! Also, I really like folkroar and domestic things now. So I would like to keep on going Ten way with my feeling that I feel each time.

Please leave a message for the SHIFT readers.

Please keep on designing your own designs as well as keeping on going your way.

TEN
ten@tententen.net
http://www.tententen.net