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Welcome to the Design History Workshop Japan web site!

This site is the official World Wide Web site of the Design History Workshop Japan which was founded in the autumn of 2002 as academic society for design history in Japan. The site was first uploaded in 2003. It aims to present news and information about our activities including journal, symposium and research workshop, and links to other places of interest on the internet. It contains not only the English site for overseas visitors, but also the members-only site which offers useful information for our members.
Thank you for your visit.

News and Information

No. 21 [26 October 2010]

Our 21th Research Workshop will be held on Sunday, 28 November at Saitama University, Tokyo Station College.

No. 020 [18 June 2010]

Our 8th Symposium ‘Reconsideration: World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo’ will be held on Saturday, 7 July at Tsuda University.

No. 19 [10 February 2010]

Our 20th Research Workshop will be held on Saturday, 13 March at Saitama University, Tokyo Station College.

No. 018 [24 November 2009]

Our 19th Research Workshop will be held on Saturday, 5 December at Kyoto Woman's University.

No. 017 [12 February 2009]

Our 18th Research Workshop will be held on Saturday, 6 March at The University of Digital Content.

No. 016 [9 October 2008]

Our 16th Research Workshop will be held on Saturday, 6 December at Kyoto Woman's University.

No. 015 [10 June 2008]

Our 15th Research Workshop and 6th Symposium ‘Design and Media’ will be held on Saturday, 12 July at Tsuda Hall.

No. 014 [24 October 2007]

Call for Papers, The 6th International Conference on Design History and Design Studies.
http://www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp/user/icdhs2008osaka/index.html

No. 013 [4 July 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#07, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 012 [11 June 2007]

Our 2007 Academic Year General Meeting will be held on Monday, 16 July at Saitama University, Tokyo Station College.
Members Only

No. 011 [11 June 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#06, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 010 [2 June 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#05, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 009 [19 May 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#04, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 008 [1 May 2007]

Members who are interested in the site of ‘Members’ Publications’, should consult the guidelines for submission in our latest newsletter (#03, 2007), which can be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).
Members’ Publications

No. 007 [1 May 2007]

Members who are interested in the site of ‘Members Self-introduction’, should consult the guidelines for submission in our latest newsletter (#03, 2007), which can be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 006 [1 May 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#03, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 005 [30 April 2007]

The deadline for submissions to the next edition of Design History, scheduled for publication at the end of June 2008, is Friday, 30 November 2007. We look forward to receiving manuscripts from members. Manuscripts can be submitted in Japanese or English; you may also submit a manuscript with both Japanese and English versions. Please consult the Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts for further information on submission policies. Members may also consult two rules on the editorial policies and the editing process listed on the members-only site (password-protected).
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

No. 004 [30 April 2007]

Our 5th Symposium ‘Design, Text and Context: Design History for Whom?’ will be held on Monday, 16 July at Saitama University, Tokyo Station College.
5th Symposium

No. 003 [30 April 2007]

The most recent edition of the newsletter (#02, 2007) has been sent to all members via the DHWJ e-mail list. The newsletter can also be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

No. 002 [1 April 2007]

Please pay your annual dues of 8,000 yen for full members, 4,000 yen for student members, and 4,000 yen for overseas members. Dues must be paid between 1 April and 31 May 2006.
Bank Account of the Design History Workshop Japan

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General Meeting

2007 Academic Year General Meeting

  • Date: 16 July 2007, at 11.00
  • Place: Sapie Tower 9F, Saitama University, Tokyo Station College
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  • The agendas can be read online, on the members-only site (password-protected).

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Executive Committee and Editorial Board Meeting

16th Executive Committee and Editorial Board Meeting

  • Date: 15 July 2007, at 12.00
  • Place: Saitama University, Tokyo Station College [Access]

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Update Record

5 July 2007

News and Information> No.13
Members Only> Newsletter No.7 (password-protected)

13 June 2007

News and Information> No.11 and No.12
Members Only> Newsletter No.6 (password-protected)

11 June 2007

Members Only> The Agendas for the 2007 Academic Year General Meeting (password-protected)

6 June 2007

Members' Publications> No.001, 2004 and No.001, 2007
News and Information> No.010
Journal>The contents of Design History, Issue 5, 2007
Members Only> Newsletter No.5 (password-protected)
Members Only> Members self-introduction (password-protected)

21 May 2007

The Digital Museum of Design> Gallery 008
News and Information> No.009
Members Only> Newsletter No.4 (password-protected)

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Journal

Design History, Issue 8, 2010, Call for Papers

Design History, Issue 8, is scheduled to be published in June 2010.
The deadline for submissions is Monday, 30 November 2009.

Design History, Issue 7, 2009

  • Contents
  • Editorial
    • About the DHWJ
    • Editorial Policy
    • Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board
  • Articles
    • Orientalism in the Museum of Applied Arts Designed by Lechner Ödön: Regarding Colonial Architecture in the British Raj / Adachi Junko
    • Invention of Home Furniture “for People“ in Japan: The Achievements of Moriya Nobuo, a Leading Modern Industrial Designer in the 1920s / Anne Gossot
    • Applied Arts Education in Vienna in the 1910s and Felice Ueno-Rix’s Design Philosophy / Kakuyama Tomoko
    • The Contemporary Conceptual Space of “Traditional Crafts”: Definition, Representation and Image of Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware / Anthony Rausch
  • Special Contributions
    • Thoughts on Representation and Basic Ideas of the Grid System, the Age of Horizontal Type Setting, and Gothic (Sans Serif-Type) Style or Mincho (Roman-Type) Style / Habara Shukuro
    • Dynamic Information Graphics: The Visualization of Knowledge Using Dynamic Representation / Harada Yasushi
    • Developing the Universal Design Fonts for Digital Display Screens / Miyazaki Michio
    • The Next Generation of Digital Art: Current Situation and Student Works in Japan / Moriyama Tomoe
  • Book Reviews
    • Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore and Yasuko Suga eds., The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 visit to Japan and North America: with Mrs Lasenby Liberty’s Japan: a pictorial record / Reviewed by Anna Basham
    • Printing Museum ed., Japanese Graphic Design in the 1950's; The Designer is Born / Reviewed by Endô Ritsuko
  • Noise
    • About Music and Simultaneity / Christophe Charles
  • Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
  • Constitution and Bylaws
  • Notes on Contributors

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Symposium

8th Symposium : Reconsideration: World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo

  • 17 July 2010, at 14.00-16.00
  • Tsuda University
  • fee 1,000 yen for non-member / 500 yen for student / members free

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  • Programme
  • Part 1: Keynote Speech
    • Ekuan Kenji (Industrial Designer)
  • Part 2: Panel Discussion
    • Kashiwagi Hiroshi (Musashino Art university, Design Critic)
    • Inoue Masato (Mukogawa Women's University)
    • Coordinator : Iguchi Toshino (Professor at Saitama University, Chair of the Design History Workshop Japan)

7th Symposium : Photography x Propaganda x Design

  • 25 July 2009, at 14.00-17.00
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
  • fee 1,000 yen for non-member / 500 yen for student / members free

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  • Programme
  • Part 1: Keynote Speech
    • Milanka Todić (Professor at University of Fine Arts Belgrade)
    • Kaneko Ryuichi (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
    • Kauya Akiko (Kyoto City University of Arts)
  • Part 2: Panel Discussion
    • Panelists : Milanka Todić, Kaneko Ryichi, Kasuya Akiko
    • Coordinator : Iguchi Toshino (Professor at Saitama University, Chair of the Design History Workshop Japan)

6th Symposium : Design and Media

Contemporary media has developed fast, but the actual ‘media’ that connected such media and people is ‘design’.
The Design History Workshop Japan has held symposia on the themes such as gender, museum, and social and historical nature of design. This year, we focus on the term ‘media7 and discuss the relations between media and design from varied angles up to today.

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  • Programme
    13:30 Regislation
    14:00 Habara Shukuro (design critic) on ‘readability and dignity in typography’
    14:30 Miyazaki Yoshiro (Honorary Fellow, Chiba University) on ‘What media design has produced: a history of Life magazine’
    15:00 Harada Yasushi (Associate Professor, Chiba Institute of Technology) on ‘Methods of visual design, and display as a pretext’
    15:30 Moriyama Tomoe (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
    16:00 Discussion
    17:00 Close

5th Symposium : Design, Text and Context: Design History for Whom?

If history is a constructed tale, narrated from a specific viewpoint with particular concerns in mind, how has design’s story been told? At the turn of the last century, the design historian was almost the craftsman himself who dominated the academic study of the art of design. In the years between the First and Second World Wars, design history became a story of progress—the advancement of modern design—as written by modernist ideologues like Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Herbert Read. This positivist narrative came under attack in the 1970s with the rise of Cultural Studies, and today, design historians practice our craft mindful of the need to recognize a multiplicity of viewpoints and experiences of design as practice, product and way of working in the world. But how do we write our histories of design for today, and what is our goal in composing these narratives? Should design histories increase intercultural and transnational understanding? Make apparent economic interactions between corporations and consumers? Benefit designers and producers? Educate the public about design through exhibitions and experiential learning? And if the answer is “all of these”, how might we best address these multiple audiences? This symposium is an opportunity to discuss these and other questions in the contemporary practice of design history.

  • 16 July 2007, at 13.00-17.00
  • Saitama University, Tokyo Station College [Access]
  • fee 1,500 yen for non-member / 500 yen for student
  • Co-organised by Graduate School of Cultural Science, Saitama University
  • Programme
  • Part 1: Keynote Speech
    • John Heskett (Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Part 2: Research Reports
    • Ekuan Shoji (Professor at Nihon University)
    • Nagasawa Tadanori (Design Consultant, Professor at Musashino Art University)
  • Part 3: Panel Discussion
    • Panelists : John Heskett, Ekuan Shoji, Nagasawa Tadanori
    • Coordinator : Iguchi Toshino (Professor at Saitama University, Deputy-Chair of the Design History Workshop Japan)

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Research Workshop

20th Research Workshop

  • Date: 13 February 2010, at 14.00
  • Place: Saitama University, Tokyo Station College
  • Presentation 1
    Speaker: Kakuyama Tomoko(Saitama University, Postgraduate Course)
    Theme: Modern Design in Vienna: Felice Ueno-Rix and the Vienna Workshops
  • Presentation 2
    Speaker: Kida Takuya (The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Craft Gallary)
    Theme: Kitaro Kunii's Discourse of Indigenous Crafts: "Japanese Things" and Modern Design in 1930s Japan

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