Window Display for Issey Miyake by Drawing and Manual

Created by Tokyo based collective “Drawing and Manual”, this custom made window display uses traditional split-flap mechanics to communicate Issey Miyake brand to passers-by.

Constructed out of 42 perspex made split-flaps, each column is controlled by a single Arduino, in total 7 of them construct images in tandem or individually by controlling servos in each. Images vary from Issey Miyake designs to clothes folds, constantly changing and reconstructing images. Casings are made using Roland iModela milling machine and images printed and paper cut by hand. Since it’s all made for Issey Miyake, as expected, craftsmanship is at it’s best.

Art Director:Tetsuro Tsuji, Yusuke Kobayashi.
Technical Director/Programmer :Tetsuro Tsuji.
Designer:Tomoya Kamiko, Takaharu Shimizu.

“Drawing and Manual” are interested in the shifting the understanding of design, which has been closely associated with computer work, to realign it with handwork. Once we took on this mission, our hands, feet, and mind began moving. We began using pencils and scissors, standing and moving, walking in the city, and observing and talking to people. We then realized that arts and crafts are the basis for dynamic design.

Art Director:Tetsuro Tsuji, Yusuke Kobayashi.
Technical Director/Programmer :Tetsuro Tsuji.
Designer:Tomoya Kamiko, Takaharu Shimizu.
Client:ISSEY MIYAKE INC.

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Issey MIYAKE

Issey Miyake (Born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan - death 5 August 2022, Tokyo, Japan). As a seven-year-old, he witnessed and survived the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. After graduation, he worked in Paris and New York City. Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he found the Miyake Design Studio.

In the late '80s, he began to experiment with new methods of pleating that would allow both flexibilities of movement for the wearer as well as ease of care and production. This eventually resulted in a new technique called garment pleating and in 1993's Pleats Please in which the garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper and fed into a heat press, where they are pleated. The fabric's 'memory' holds the pleats and when the garments are liberated from their paper cocoon, they are ready to wear. He did the costume for Ballett Frankfurt with pleats in a piece named "the Loss of Small Detail" by William Forsythe and also work on the ballet "Garden in the setting".

He had a long friendship with Austrian-born pottery artist Dame Lucie Rie. She bequeathed to him her substantial collection of ceramic and porcelain buttons, which he integrated into his designs and presented in new collections.

In 1994 and 1999, Miyake turned over the design of the men's and women's collections respectively, to his associate, Naoki Takizawa, so that he could return to research full-time. In 2007, Naoki Takizawa opened his own brand, supported by the Issey Miyake Group and was replaced, as a Creative Director of the House of Issey Miyake, by Dai Fujiwara.

http://www.isseymiyake.com/