Designers / Artists: ON ZA LINE
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“We have found ourselves longing to return to nature and sooner or later, we believe we will. But what will nature look like in the future?”
Ai Kurahashi and Kiyomi Kodama are a ceramicist duo from Japan.
Ai Kurahashi – born in Japan, 1976. Ai graduated from Nihon University’s College of Art with a degree in architecture in 2000. She had countless part time jobs at bars, boutiques, interior design offices, factories, warehouses, publishers, fashion brands – as a graphic designer, interior designer, interior stylist, editor, writer, or just a worker before focusing fulltime on ON ZA LINE with Kiyomi in 2005.
Kiyomi Kodama – born in Japan, 1976. Kiyomi studied ceramics at the Jyoshibi University of Art and Design. After graduation, Kodoma worked for four years designing ceramics for a Japanese design firm. In 2003, she started collaborating with Ai while still at the firm, and in 2005, quit her job to make ON ZA LINE her full time focus.
“We never know what will come out of the partnership between the medium and our creative processes. We could find ourselves with rings, necklaces, cups, or chandeliers. Some are born without a definition of what they ought to be.”
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Description of item: Everything is made carefully by hand. This requires a great deal of time and passion. For this reason, we almost always make less than 50 of each item.For Inquiries, contact us
- On Za Line 2
designed by: On Za Line
Description of item: Everything is made carefully by hand. This requires a great deal of time and passion. For this reason, we almost always make less than 50 of each item.For Inquiries, contact us
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designed by: On Za Line
Description of item: Everything is made carefully by hand. This requires a great deal of time and passion. For this reason, we almost always make less than 50 of each item.For Inquiries, contact us
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designed by: On Za Line
Description of item: Everything is made carefully by hand. This requires a great deal of time and passion. For this reason, we almost always make less than 50 of each item.For Inquiries, contact us
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designed by: On Za Line
Description of item: Everything is made carefully by hand. This requires a great deal of time and passion. For this reason, we almost always make less than 50 of each item.For Inquiries, contact us
August: London Design Festival 2010 Preparation Update
Help! I am trapped by my WordPress template! I have been afraid to just simply blog because I have a magazine style site where I forgo my writerly urges to post the result of my endless female creativity talent search. Women who I find through my endless trolling for the best of the best in all manners of creative entrepreneurship, innovation, problem solving, and fresh cultural expression. But I want to be able to do both. I want to be a regular blogger too. I’m seeking a web developer to help me get there. Consider this a RFP.
I am researching the various ways to go to market, communicate, and stay simple. I love the possibilities available through QR codes, any way to bring a story to life and integrate story with the things we make. Also, not that this is my domain but I think how can these women with these ingenious ideas and amazing designs produce in small quantities so the fog of supply chain doesn’t wary them from getting down to business.
Got Future of Manufacturing On The Brain
From Makerbot to Ponoko to all the myriad of personal manufacturing possibilities championed by Thingiverse, the dream is there but the access to tools have not caught up. And when they do, what will that even look like? Dreaming and communicating ideas ad infinitum is one thing but materializing ad infinitum is quite another. But back to brass tacks..
It’s August now so everything moves slower but the fact is I can’t. I have a 9 amazing designers to show off before the big day when Designers Block opens on September 22nd, I have an event to prepare for at the Sense Loft on the 23rd of September and then the rest of the London Design Festival with Tiffany, Edyta, Ai, Chisato, Natsuki, Shuyu, Tiffany and Lynn (and now possibly 1-2 more, we’ll see) up through the 26th. Then two days later I fly to New York to get ready for my wedding in October. I’m also tending to my secret other project that takes up a bundle of editing time. (No its not a book about women or design or anything like that, it truly is ‘other’.)
Anyway, that’s me in a nutshell right now. I just had a nightmarish trip to Andalucia, a slight diversion a bit like a horror movie short if you will, but I’m back in hot as hell Barcelona sitting in my Borne apartment with Peter while he edits photographs and I write. I’ll end this now and I’ll be back with more in the next few days.
Please stay with us as we unfold the What Women Make exhibit at DesignersBlock during the London Design Festival. I’m very excited. I couldn’t have asked for more talented people to showcase.
-Chauncey
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