A puppet show “Shokichi” attracted many people. It was very interesting!

This cartoon booth showed a bit different atmosphere from surroundings. They told me that it was a new magazine “Kaku (Fictitious)” made by cartoonists of a famous Japanese underground comic magazine “Garo”. I instinctively bought one and asked their autograph on it.

There were a lot of people who were making free papers with some goods.

I collected so many cards and papers by going round. It is enjoyable to watch such a wide variety of these papers.

I tried to see all booths, but it took many hours and I got very tired. You should try not to go around in order as you cannot see all spaces at one time, but choose your favorite area to go first, because I found many great works in the far spaces also, which didn’t have enough visitors. There were both great excitement and inconvenience in this chaos. I felt the style of Design Festa rather than the trend or fashion.

Next Design Festa will be on May 2007. I hope this event will keep producing nice things more and more.

Design Festa! vol24
Date: December 2nd – 3rd, 2006
Open: 11:00 – 19:00
Place: Tokyo Big Sight East Hall 1,2,3 and Outdoor space
Address: 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 3479 1433 (Design Festa Office)
https://www.designfesta.com