My very first workshop

I held my very first workshop today at Makers' base a fablab in Meguro, Tokyo.
Teaching something to people was not so easy but I quite enjoyed myself.
Hope people felt fun to make by their own hands through the workshop.

tete/new studio with a small weekend shop

I and my old friends established a new design studio "tete" in Komagome, North Tokyo.
As tete, we make 100% handmade goods from accessaries to bag and etc,.
It become a small shop on every Sunday. Our studio is located in the ex-old old apartment house named "MARUIKE HOUSE" which is lately renovated as the house of studios or small shops like ours. There are a cafe with gallery space, stationary shop, record shop and etc,.
The building is in the ordinary residence area, and at first I was just wondering who comes here... but people come. I love this fact.
Some of the shops are still under construction though, we're opening as shop from 19th June. Come and see our products!


友人と、teteという作業場を兼ねた小さな雑貨店を始めました。
お店は日曜のお昼から夕方まで、6月19日より営業開始予定。
場所は東京の北、駒込。巣鴨のお隣。なぜこんなところに、、と誰しもが思うと思いますが、なかなか駒込はいいところです。
teteが入居するMARUIKE HOUSEは元ボロアパート、現在はカフェやら文房具屋さんやらが入る集合アトリエ＋ショップのようなものです。どのお店も入居者自ら改装工事を行い、手作り感たっぷりでいいかんじです。
駒込の景勝地・六義園の帰りにでも是非寄ってみてください。

tete

http://we-are-tete.blogspot.com/

114-0014

東京都北区田端4-3-3 MARUIKE HOUSE205

205 MARUIKE HOUSE, 4-3-3 Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan 114-0014

→地図はこちら

→MARUIKE HOUSE

tezukuri ichi, the hand craft market

js joined Tezukuri-ichi which is one of the biggest hand-craft market in tokyo and held in the site of old shrine!
First of all we need to go and worship at a main building of the shrine, it's the official rule of the market, so nice!
This time I sold pins made of pieces of wood with colourful animal motif stamps. I quite like the idea of this product and material.
It was nice to meet many people with different feedbacks, these always give me motivation for creativity.
love to have a stall at this sort of market very soon!

Share the space, share the good time together with your family

I designed a poster work for Konica Minolta's poster exhibition.
The theme is "eco action at home".
My concept for the final piece is "Share the same space with your family altogether is the best action for the eco-activity.
You could save extra electricity and also have the pleasures of a happy home as you share the space and time together.
We care about eco things too fussily, and it seems forgetting its essence I guess. Lets look back to the basis, and reconfirm the reason why we do eco-activity for our happy future!

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The poster exhibition
@Digital imaging square,
4th floor Shinagawa grand central tower

the nearest station is Shinagawa, JR Yamanote line
28 May-
13.00-17.00

http://www.creco.biz/topics/PEXHIBITION0506ol.pdf

Thanks for visiting us at design festa!

"design festa", the biggest independent designer's exhibition, was held at Tokyo big sight last weekend.
Me and my friends joined it as "js", a design group, and we exhibited and also sold our handmade craft works.
We had good feedback from visitors, and receiving these kind of responses make huge motivation for creation. Feeling like getting out from my own space. Yes, I will keep going making my favourite works as I come and go between my world to the real world.

here to visit to the js website

JS's new website has been launched

I join a design group called "jestsquip" which was established in 2003 by friends and myself.
We have been making handmade bags and small stuffs and selling on our own website.
After moving in London, I couldn't join such much, but I'm back now and we will start new projects at js (this is the new name!).

We will join in Design festival in May to exhibit new works and also to celebrate for the re-establishment as js!

check below the new website!

http://www.js-design-hub.com/index_top.html

emerge

emerge exhibition

It's very late to report about this exhibition though...
anyway, i joined the first emerge exhibition in London Design Festival 2009.
I exhibited "emotional baggages" from my final major project in my university.
It was quite good experience to join such as well organised exhibition and I felt I was kind of a guest designer.
Hope I will have another chance to join London Design Festival. I will come back one day!

Happy new year

Currently I just moved to a happy town in central Tokyo (like London's Camden town) .

One day I saw a lady was walking with her parrot, and people in the town love to put their old fashioned pantalons. I quite love to see these people with original tastes. Funny funny and funny!

There is a silk screen printing studio which is quite close from my old small flat, and I cannot wait to work in the studio for my creation!

This year will be something special I just imagine.

Hope you all will have super happy new year!

xx Aki

Hello, I am in Japan!

Dear all,

Hello there!

I currently went to back to Japan, my mother country.

It was great experience to study in the most exciting artistic city London, and I hope I can use these experiences and ability in future here in Japan or anywhere.

If you have something, request or giving me job opportunity, please contact me.

We have great technology, internet, that enable us to submit work from anywhere!

Keep in touch and thank you for reading this!

Aki Makita

new mobile number: +81 (0)80-4205-7632

Degree Show

5:1 LCC BA G.M.D course Degree show

25/06/2009-03/07/2009

at London College of Communication

I exhibited...

Forest anywhere -The Little Red Riding Hood in Isotypes (Transformer project)

'eks (Past Present Future project)

Patchwork of emotion (Self initiated project)

If you have visited the exhibition, I would like to say thank you for coming.

Degree Show website

You can now see some of my works on the degree show website of London College of Communication.

Please visit website below.

http://www.5to1show.com/#/student/typographic/aki-makita_1

Thank you.

Sorry to invite this empty blog,, will update more and more soon!

Dear all,

Thank you for visiting this blog and sorry I haven't updated for long time.

I will put more work soon and please visit here again.

Now I have been making a proper website so when I finish making it, will inform about that here.

Thank you again!

Aki