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News room

2016/01/05

Product Press Release

"i+ (eye plus) brand launch event" held at Daikanyama T-SITE

ITOKI CORPORATION (Head office: Joto-ku, Osaka City, President: Yoshiro Hirai) and Interoffice Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Hideyuki Ume) will hold a brand launch event for "i+" at the Daikanyama T-SITE Garden Gallery from Wednesday, January 20th to Thursday, January 21st, 2016. On the day, "i+" items created by "i+" producer and designer Naoki Terada (Director and General Manager of the Design Department of Interoffice Corporation) and installations by famous creators from various fields will be on display for two days only. There will also be a talk show and party with Naoki Terada and exhibit collaborators.

New forms of office accessories created by four exhibition collaborators

"i+" is a furniture brand created by Naoki Terada, known for "Terada Mokei" and "15.0% Ice Cream Spoon", that breathes new value into office accessories (whiteboards, telephone stands, coat stands) that were previously just accessories.

At the event, an installation using i+ products will be displayed by four exhibit collaborators who sympathize with this new challenge. The exhibit collaborators who sympathize with the design philosophy of i+ are Akamatsu Kazuko (architect), Ando Yoko (textile designer), Okayasu Izumi (lighting designer), and Yamazaki Kazuhiko (professor at the Department of Design Science, Chiba Institute of Technology). This exhibit will show the new possibilities of office accessories for i+.

The "i+" products are of high design and high quality, thanks to our collaboration with ITOKI. We understand that you are all busy at the start of the new year, but we hope you will come and visit us.

"i+" Designer Profile

The producer and designer of "i+" is architect and designer Naoki Terada. He designs and plans a wide range of spaces, from architecture to products, including the product brand "Terada Mokei" and the design of the ice cream spoon "15.0%" sold by the casting manufacturer Takata Lemnos. He proposes designs that evoke feelings of joy and abundance, and that make you smile when you make eye contact with someone. He currently serves as the director and general manager of the Interoffice Design Division.

Exhibition Collaborators

Kazuko Akamatsu	Architect/Partner at CAt, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design and Engineering, Hosei University. Born in Tokyo in 1968. After graduating from the Department of Housing, Faculty of Home Economics, Japan Women's University in 1990, he joined Coelacanth (later C+A, CAt). He has been a partner since 2002. He has presented a wide range of architectural works both in Japan and overseas, from interiors and furniture to school buildings. His major awards include the Murano Togo Award, the Architectural Institute of Japan Commendation for Selected Works, the AACA Award (Japan Architectural Artists and Craftsmen's Association Award), the Public Architecture Award, and the Japan Interior Designers Association Grand Prize.
Yoko Ando	Representative of Ando Yoko Design. Born in Tokyo in 1968. After graduating from the Department of Graphic Design at Musashino Art University Junior College, she joined NUNO Co., Ltd. and worked as a creative staff member. In 2011, she went independent and established Ando Yoko Design. As a textile coordinator and designer, she provides textiles for the spaces of many architects, including Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Jun Aoki, Coelacanth and Associates, and Akihisa Hirata.
Izumi Okayasu	Lighting designer. Representative of Izumi Okayasu Lighting Design Office. Born in Kanagawa in 1972. Graduated from the Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Nihon University in 1994. After working at the Japan Institute of Technology for Bio-oriented Industries, he established the Okayasu Izumi Lighting Design Office in 2007. He designs all aspects of light, including lighting plans for architectural and commercial spaces, lighting fixture designs, and installations.
Kazuhiko Yamazaki	Smile Experience Design Studio / Professor, Department of Design Science, Chiba Institute of Technology. After graduating from Kyoto Institute of Technology, he worked in planning and design at Cleanup and IBM Japan, where he contributed to the development of the ThinkPad brand. After working as a manager (technical director) of the Design Center at IBM Japan, he became a professor in the Department of Design Science, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology in 2007. He has a PhD in Art and Engineering from Kobe Design University. He is Vice President of the Human Centered Design Organization, Director of the Japanese Design Department, a judge for the Good Design Award, and Director of the Japan Industrial Designers Association.

Event overview

title	i+ LAUNCH EXHIBITION
date and time	Wednesday, January 20th and Thursday, January 21st, 2016 11:00 - 21:00
place	Daikanyama T-SITE Garden Gallery (inside Daikanyama TSUTAYA)
Content	i+ brand launch, new product launch exhibition ◎Talk event by exhibition collaborators January 21 (Thu) 19:00-20:30 A talk event by Kazuko Akamatsu (architect), Yoko Ando (textile designer), Izumi Okayasu (lighting designer), Kazuhiko Yamazaki (professor at the Department of Design Science, Chiba Institute of Technology) and Naoki Terada

[ITOKI CORPORATION Company Profile]
Founded in Osaka in 1890 (Meiji 23), as Itoki Shoten, with the aim of spreading the inventions and patents of the time to the world, the company has progressed alongside the history of offices in Japan. In the Showa era, the company expanded its business to include the manufacture and sale of office furniture and office space design.
In recent years, we have been providing a variety of services in creating office environments, from proposing high-quality office environments that bring out the intellectual creativity of workers to maintenance and management using facility management.We also provide comfortable, functional, safe and secure environmental spaces in areas such as security, logistics facilities, research facilities and stores.

Founded: December 1890
Established: April 1950
Head office: 1-4-12 Imafuku Higashi, Joto-ku, Osaka 536-0002
Tokyo Head Office: 3-2-10 Irifune, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0042
Representative: Yoshiro Hirai, President and CEO
URL: https://www.itoki.jp/
Business description: Office-related business, office building materials-related business, facility equipment-related business, home furniture-related business, etc.

[Inter Office Co., Ltd. Company Profile]
In 1983, we were founded as a joint venture called Haller Japan after encountering the USM Haller system. After that, we started our business under the name Interoffice after encountering Vitra, the company that released the "Persona", "Figura" and "Imago" series of office chairs designed by Mario Bellini, which had a great influence on the world of office furniture.
With a policy of proposing world-class office environments, we have been working closely with each and every company to increase the number of companies that agree with the importance of offices. Based on the philosophy of "sensitively responding to changes in work styles, proposing optimal office environments, and always with beautiful designs," we support the creation of functional and comfortable spaces that are in line with the times.

Founded: November 1975
Established: April 1983
Head Office: Forum Building, 2-24-11 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Representative: Hideyuki Ume, President and CEO
URL: https://www.interoffice.co.jp/
Business description: Import, export and sale of European office furniture. Space design proposals.