Interview with Mitsunori Yamase
I am working with the team to develop the Zirconia products since 2007. I started my career with Injection molding technology. I mainly have been occupying for technical development.
Designer Interview
13 May 2019
When I was a high school student, I wanted to be a calligrapher. After that, my dream has changed to be an architect, when I was a University student. But after graduate I became a graphic designer. Then, I changed my profession to the product designer.
A.I design various Japanese industrial crafts. I also work on the graphics and branding of those I design in an integrated manner. I design things based on the history of industrial crafts while looking into the future of the industry. In 2011, I founded TE TE TE Consortium together with like-minded fellows and have been organizing an annual trade show, TE TE TE Trader’s Expo.
It’s not what solves the problem but it’s what loves the problem and accept the contradictions.
It’s something Hand-held size things.
The chopsticks. It’s minimal. Even it’s difficult to use at the beginning, you can grasp any small things if you have got used to.
It was the Moth
Every material I work with as the first time, since I can start without any preconception.
While taking a walk in the garden.
The integration of whole and the parts.
I feel like a meditation.
It’s Peace.
At the same time, there is an approach to universality while having uniqueness.
It’s an approach to discomfort. I look for some way what makes that discomfort precious.
They are the ethics and the tolerance.
Various phenomena has the extreme swinging and they are divided in both sides. Designers from various fields have to make efforts to re-integrate them.
It was “Milano Salone”. I personally don’t like any exhibition. That was the client’s will.
From the whole of my life.
To balance that the design does not outweigh the material, but it does not rely on the material.
In Japan. One side, there are many craftsmen with very high technology. The other side, it’s very difficult to proceed any project since the Japanese society now a days hardly gives priority to new challengers because of the mismanagement of the government for over 20 years. But something what can surpass it, might be the design close to the essence of human beings. And that has the possibility to create something very powerful.
Lile a family.
I work with companies, which does not create any hierarchy like partnership but like married couple.
Sketch, Mockup, Drawing, Prototype, Prototype… then Completion.
No comment.
Wake up in the morning, Working in the garden, Sketch and Communicate with my team. Then Dinner with my team with their family together. After that, taking a bath with my son and sleep with him.
Do not give up.
The circulation of Freedom and solitariness
It’s the dialogue with own heart.
Communication skill against some other person and also against to yourself.
I sketch with iPad and draw with 3D CAD.
Not to make deadline and think deeply until convincement.
In couple of minutes in the shortest case, several years in the longest case.
How do you make your idea.
To feel the break through. And it comes after getting over the solitariness.
They are Japanese small makers.
To feel that you are forgiven. To feel that we give each other a caring spirit.
Not particular.
I have an Employee.
I’m changing various subcontract suppliers in Japan into product brands with proud technology
From the contact form in my website. (http://www.o-ji.jp/)
My wish is that, may all things be forgiven.