東京 立川の印刷加工工場、福永紙工代表の山田明良さんは、 多くの優れたデザイナーと協働で紙の可能性を追求しています。 シュリンクし続ける紙や印刷加工業に、活路を見出すことができるか？山田さんが牽引する福永紙工さんがこの10年取り組んできた、数々のデザインプロジェクトのトライアルを紹介します。

"On the 27th of January, 1887, a snowflake apparently fell in Montana, and it was 57cm (22.4in) across ...but they have no proof of that."

In SnowFlakeology from PechaKucha Night Tokyo Vol. 131, PK co-founder Mark Dytham drops some cold hard science on frozen crystals falling from the sky. Whether elaborating on 2-dimensional radiating dendrites crystals, or 3-dimensional Gohei-twin type flakes, or digital ASCII/Unicode icy forms, it's crystal-clear he's done his homework. Simply put, Mark's extensive snowflake knowledge is...well...chilling.

...he definitely didn't flake on this PechaKucha! It snow joke!

This was "PechaKucha of the Day" on Friday, December 25th, 2015. 

建築家でデザイナーの宮崎晃吉さんは、 磯崎新アトリエでの勤務を経て現在は母校の東京藝術大学建築科で教鞭をとる一方、 下町情緒漂う谷中で最小文化複合施設 HAGISO を運営されています。注目を集め続ける HAGISO と、2015年秋にオープンした「まちごとホテル」をコンセプトにした宿泊施設 hanare について、プロジェクトの完成までのエピソードを披露します。

若手建築家の中でも活躍が目覚ましい元木大輔さんは、 建築を軸に多領域に渡ってボーダレスにクリエイションを展開されています。当たり前と思うことへの発想の転換。これまで手がけた、実用から生まれ思わず声をあげてしまうユニークなデザインを紹介します。

福島県会津若松市を拠点に世界を舞台に活躍するベンチャー企業、Eyes, JAPANの代表である山寺純さんが、自転車を活用して環境データの集積やその提供を実現する「FUKUSHIMA Wheel」について、その全貌を公開します！クリエイティブが凝縮されたクールなプロジェクトは、要チェックです！

"I wanted to show places that tourists cannot see, and strangers are not allowed."

In Tokyo Around the Clock, from PechaKucha Night Tokyo Vol. 131, Elena Aframova shares her 5-years-in-the-making photo project that utilizes thousands of dramatic black & white photographs to depict everyday life in Tokyo in the form of a graphic novel.

This was "PechaKucha of the Day" on Friday, January 15th, 2015. 

"Put your hand up, the people who can't draw ... I want to ask these people: Can you make an egg? Can you write your name? Before you could that, you could draw." 

If you know the vociferously talented illustrator Luis Mendo, you know just how many pages he fills daily with beautiful, lively drawings In a very special presentation from PechaKucha Night Tokyo Vol. 131, he shows off 20 drawings he made entirely on the iPad Pro, all with the Apple Pencil. As encouraging as ever, Luis shows us that everyone has the potential within themselves to draw — you just have to get out there and put pencil to paper (or iPad)!

SuperDeluxeでの最新のイベントを紹介！

SuperDeluxe's creative director Ryu Konno takes us on his monthly tour of events at the venue, reviewing the last few events, and offering up a preview of what's coming up. As always, he kicks things off with a few images describing what he's been up to of late. (in Japanese)

"Each building is all about the detail and my personal approach to it."

In Architectural Portraiture from PechaKucha Night Tokyo Vol. 131, Architectural illustrator Thibaud Hémen shares a highly sophisticated collection of his work, intricate illustrations of buildings with painstaking attention to detail. His incredible drawings allow the unique personality of each subject to shine forth and be fully appreciated.

This was "PechaKucha of the Day" on Friday, January 8th, 2015. 

This was "PechaKucha of the Day" on Friday, January 1st, 2015.