"SUMI 09" Exhibition on the Milano Salone

We all of menbers of GIIT are happy to inform you that we will be introducing our first exhibition of the design project "SUMI 09" during the upcoming one of the most exciting design event - Salone Internazionale del Mobile (April 22 - 27, 2009) in Milan, Italy.

Help us celebrate the opening of our exhibition on Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.

Drinks and Japanese stlye of hors d'oeuvres will be served along with explanation of our design works.

More info.  tuyoshi2@mac.com

GIIT member 3

Hello, I'm Takamochi. I'm taking charge of product design in GIIT.

As Tetsuo mentioned yesterday, It has been sunny days in milan these days, so i feel like i want to go to a park to take a nap.

But now, we have a month before milano salone.

All of our members have a strong will that we'd like to exhibit our works in milano salone, then we organized GIIT for that aim. So this is first time for us to experience not on watching side, but on making side.
At the begining, we were just like groping our way about it.

but in the cource of discussion, we finally reached our theme (charcoal) and concept (invisible), and after that, i found out a lot of my possibilities and goodness of someone which i've never ever realized before with the notion of invisible.

In this time, I'll exhibit three prducts, lighting and a vase and.......
I feel like i'm excited.

We are sure that we are working on milano salone as much as possible.

GIIT member 2

Hello everybody, I'm Tetsuo who work in GIIT as a product designer.
It has been nice weather in milan these days, and it turened a comfortable season for riding a bicycle to get around milan.

In this time of milano salone, our theme is「New design using charcoal (which is called sumi in japan )」so since this project is started, We have thought relation between sumi and daily life.
So now, We feel a lot of possibilities and fascination which the material has more than we felt before.

I'll design two products for the exhibition, one is lighting and the other is........
I'm sure that both product designs are based on the theme about using sumi, so i want you to look forward to them.

In addition, in this blog, we'll wright the process of making our works before milano salone and information about sumi which we researched.


© t.t

GIIT member 1

Hi everybody,

I'm tsuyoshi who study interior design in Milan and a team leader of the design project.

At present, we are engaging in the project which is called "SUMI 09". And also we are planning to give an exhibition during the Milano Salone which is one of the most prestigious and exciting design event in Milan, Italy.

Our team "GIIT" is composed of 3 product designers and 3 interior designers, and from this year 2009 we are going to strive to propose new values through different fields of designs as those who are seeing both cultures of Japan (Giappone) and Italy (Italia).

The theme of our first project is "SUMI".

How and what design can we creat with using this difficult but interesting material...

Please look forward to our design activities from now on !!

- micro figure of charcoal -

PROJECT CONCEPT

INVISIBLE

It is not possible to capture the exquisite application or fine points of charcoal with our sense of sight. Also, from our daily life there are various different "INVISIBLE" elements that exist on the subconscious level, things and valuess that we fail to notice that the naked eyes cannot see.

And so, we shall present a design using charcoal to display these various different "INVISIBLE" elements, a new-wave of concepts.

        ©t.t.