Sunday, August 30, 2009

Jo Nakamura

Vapor Drip - coffee maker with new ritual



A coffee maker is very interesting and special appliance, compared with other kitchen products. To simply extract the cup of coffee from ground coffee, people have studied various manners, methods and instruments for over 300 years all over the world.
However, recent coffee makers have been designed and developed for its functionality and appearances. Coffee makers now, which are simply switched ON to make coffee, cannot provide the essence of the essence. My design approach for a coffee maker is designing extraction process itself and my coffeemaker, Vapor Drip, will give users a new experience as a ritual for making coffee.



past works

Breakfast with Pills


It is the fact that a lot of people nowadays take dietary supplements at breakfast. This porcelain tableware includes space for all kinds of pills.
The design of this tableware is very simple — the colored pills make the decoration on it.





Seamless


Seamless is a folding desk which is designed for users of laptop computers. Once it is folded, it will be a narrow rectangle shape. It doesn’t take large spaces in their room.
Usually, folding chairs or desks have shown joints or parts to fold. This desk tries not to show the joints as in its name “seamless”.






CV

2009   Graduated from IM department, Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands
2007   Milano Design Week, Droog design “ Smart Deco” in Milan Italy
2006   Working at ±0 Aoyama
2005   ±0 Aoyama in Tokyo, JapanExhibition for Tokyo Designers’ Block with Jonathan Olivares at Gallery Musee F in Tokyo
2005   Milano Design Week Satellite, Pratt Institute booth in Milan Italy
2005   Graduated from Industrial Design Department, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York
2005   Internship as an assistant designer at Office for Design Jonas Damon
2004   ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) in Manhattan New york Brooklyn DesignGroup



Contact

mail:   zou666@gmail.com
website:   www.jonakamura.com

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