Katsushi
KUNIMOTO

From one screw to the earth

POWERS’ Design begins from “man” and results in “man”.
I think that we wants to design for all things (toy, tableware, daily necessaries, industrial design and product planning such as a car and furniture, and people’s residence and a town, the city environment where they are wrapped in, and natural environment) for a new sense of values and beautiful shape on the basis of “man”.
The number of the choices of the “design” approach against problem solution is not one.
If there are 100 persons, 100 or more kinds of various approaches can be referred to as being.
Considering “how people can live comfortably” as one of the standards of activity, I am designing in order to embody it.
Although a designer decides a special field of study and it is working in many cases, when designing a future new time, it thinks that the capability covering all the domains of designs, such as creation of a basic concept, a planning, a coloring plan, a sketch, a rendering, a design plan, model creation, a function and mechanism examination, model drawing creation, a mock-up, a mechanism trial production model, material examination, surface treatment examination, and a graphic plan, is needed from market research.
Moreover, the feeling from marketing to a finance is also required.
The monochrome and Koto who are designed are considered that value has the relation of the existence of the circumference environment to surround and the very thing instead of the aggregate of an individual part.
The Renaissance in a design domain is needed.
That is, a city and a construction plan, community development and a promotion plan, interior design, a display, CI plan, a sign plan, naming, a logotype, a homepage, etc. need to do research and training of aiming at a synthetic design, without adhering to the existing design field.
It is comfortable by all the environment that surrounds man, and the dithering inning which can have a relation to environment with man more by designing with the viewpoint of being comfortable is called for.
In order to tackle the design connected to the point of a time and the future, training of “thinking power with the philosophy” is also important.
I think that it is important when only this standing face to face against information, and selecting it in a time with much amount of information also designs.
I hope that I consider the relation between the industry after man begins the act recognized to be a design and the design, examine the state of the design of new form, and create the healthier social system through them.

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List of projects

• CAR DESIGN (PAJERO, MINICA, SIGMA, RAMDA, CORDIA, DELICA)
• PLANNING & DESIGN (TOKYO MOTOR SHOW (SHOW CAR))
• RESEARCH OF FUTURE MOTOR SOCIETY & THE CAR IN ADVANCE DESIGN STUDIO
• INTERIOR DESIGN FOR NEW DELICA (MITSUBISHI MOTORS CO., LTD. [MMC])
• BASIC PLANNING (HIGASHIYAMA-ZOO 50’S MEMORIAL ENTERPRISE)
• DESIGN & PRODUCE (JCI ’86 NAGOYA WORLD SESSION MEMORIAL MONUMENT)
• DESIGN PLANNING (’87 NAGOYA-NEXT CITY PLANNING)
• DESIGN & DISPLAY PLANNING (CHUBU-FUTURE EXHIBITION ’88 THEME PAVILION “VILLAGE OF GREEN AND THE TREE”)
• CITY PLANNING “ARTHILL MIYOSHIGAOKA”
• NAGOYA-CITY WELFARE HEALTH CENTER MONUMENT DESIGN, PRODUCE & PRODUCT [NAGOYA-CITY MIZUHO-KU]
• BASIC PLANNING & DESIGN PLANNING (TONO-AREA SCIENCE PARK(SCIENCE STUDYING CITY))
• AREA DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (TOMEI-HIGHWAY INTER CHANGE) [TOMEI-MIYOSHI INTER CHANGE]
• PLANNING & DESIGN (MOTOR SHOW PLANNING & EXHIBIT PLANNING)
• PRODUCE & DESIGN OF CITY PUBLIC CO., (CITY PLANNING-PLANNING MANUAL-AREA DEVELOPMENT PLANNING)
• SYNTHETIC PRODUCE (ARTHILL SCULPTURE FESTA – ANNUAL ORDER FROM 1989 TO 2003) [GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) RECEIVED 2001]
• RESEARCH & DESIGN (SEAT FOR RAILWAY VEHICLES (JAPAN RAILWAY etc.))
• INTERIOR DESIGN & PLANNING (PRINTING CORPORATION & WARD OFFICE OF NAGOYA CITY)
• COORDINATE PRODUCE (MIYOSHI-TOWN CULTURE HALL)
• PLANNING & COORDINATE OF CITY PUBLIC CO.,
• DENTAL CLINIC SYSTEM DESIGN PLANNING & PRODUCE (HIRAOKA DENTAL CLINIC, ASAI DENTAL CLINIC, SANWA DENTAL CLINIC)
• BASIC PLANNING & DESIGN PLANNING (LAKE HAMANAKO BOAT RACE AMUSEMENT PARK)
• PLANNING & PROJECT SCULPTURE COMPETITION (ARTHILL FESTA) STRUCTURE & STAGE DROP CURTAIN
• MADE BY TAKASHI KONO MONUMENT MADE BY MINAMI TADA etc.
• DESIGN, AREA PLANNING, SCULPTURE PLANNING, PRODUCE & LIGHTING DESIGN (TOMEI-MIYOSHI INTER CHANGE & BRIDGE OF HIGHWAY”SHINIKE-BASHI”)
• TOYS CAR DESIGN (CHORO-Q etc.)
• DESIGN OF GLASS TABLE WARE (“ELEGANT CITY ‘LAPINUE’ VISION” etc.)
• DESIGN OF POTTERY & TABLE WARE (“CUISINE” etc.)
• FURNITURE DESIGN (HOKKAIDO FOLK FURNITURE “DIVA HOKUMIN”SERIES)
• AREA DEVELOPMENT COUSULTANT, BASIC CONSEPT & PLANNING (NAGOYA-OSU NO.30 AREA REDEVELOP TOWN)
• ART HILL MIYOSHIGAOKA COMPLETED MEMORIAL MONUMENT (DESIGN & PLANNING & SCULPTURE)
• MIYOSHI CENTLAL AREA COMPLETED MONUMENT (DESIGN & PLANNING & SCULPTURE)
• PARTICIPATE THE INTERNATIONAL JUDAICA DESIGN COMPETITION OF THE JERUSALEM 3000 COMMUMORATIONS
• TOTAL PRODUCE, DESIGN & SUPERVISE (LARGE CAR REPAIRING CENTER “AUTO CAR RABIT”)
• BUS & VAN DECORATION DESIGN (LARGE CAR REPAIRING CENTER “AUTO CAR RABIT”)
• SHOP & SHOW-WINDOW DESIGN (DEGITAL PHOTO CITY WAKITA)
• PLANNING & DESIGN OF TOY-S-BOX BUILDING
• PLANNING & DESIGN OF TOY-S-CAFE
• DESIGN & PRODUCE OF THE SYSTEM WHICH OFFERS THE CUSTOMIZED SHOES (GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) SELECTED 2001/ SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES DIRECTOR GENERAL SPECIAL PRIZSE AWARD)
• LABEL DESIGN OF SAKE, “KUSANAGI”, SACRED SAKE OF ATSUTA JINGU AND “AZUMARYU”
• DESIGN OF JAPANESE RICE WINE FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES (EXPORT ORGANIZATION OF JAPANESE RICE WINE)
• BOTTLE DESIGN AND LOGO DESIGN OF FREEZE SAKE “HAKUSAN HIMURO”
• GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) SELECTED 2002
• COORDINATER OF WATER ENVIRONMENTAL CIVIC SESSION (VICE-CHAIRMAN SINCE 1998)
• AREA DESIGN CONSULTANT
• MASTER PLANNING FOR HISTORICAL & CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT (KANAZAWA CITY YUOKE AREA, EDO VILLAGE, YUOKA CULTURAL VILLAGE etc.)
• PRESERVATION & ANTIDISASTER PLANNING OF HISTORICAL & TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES (KANAZAWA HIGASHIYAMA EAST-AREA)
• EQUIPMENT PLANNING OF EDO-VILLAGE IN KANAZAWA
• LAGUNA-GAMAGORI “Chefood di Mare” DESIGN PRODUCE
• YATSUGATAKE RESORT OUTLET “CHEESE FACTORY” DESIGN PRODUCE
• INAX ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN CONSULTANT DIRECTOR
• DESIGN & PRODUCE OF PANEL SYSTEM, ECO DISPLAY (GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) SELECTED 2002)
• DESIGN & PRODUCE OF “HAKUSAN”, THE DISTILLATION WAREHOUSE IN WOOD (GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) SELECTED 2002)
• TEACHER & INSTRUCTOR OF DESIGN EDUCATION FACILITIES
• PRODUCT DESIGN & DESIGN CONSULTANT FOR EACH CORPORATION
• CONSULTING OF MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM PLANNING
• COORDINATER OF MERCHANDISING DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (NAGOYA CHANBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY)

Public service

• JAPAN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION/ DIRECTOR [JIDA]
• JAPAN DESIGN BUSINESS CO-OPERATIVE BODY/ DIRECTOR [JDB]
• SELECTION EXAMINATION COMMITTEE OF GOOD DESIGN AWARD (G MARK) [UNIT 1: THE HEAD OF UNIT]
• NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS JAPAN DESIGN ASSOCIATION/ MANAGING DIRECTOR [JDA]
• COMMITTEE OF MINOR ENTERPRISE NAGOYA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY MEMBER (SINCE 1999)
• SOCIETY GATHERING OF MINOR ENTERPRISE NAGOYA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY MEMBER (SINCE 1998)
• COMMITTEE OF NEW PRODUCTS & NEW TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN COOPERATIONMEMBER (SINCE 1999)
• NAGOYA-CITY TOKAIDO RENAISSANCE PROMOTE CONFERENCE COMMISSIONER ’93
• JAPAN SOCIETY OF DESIGN BUSINESS DIRECTOR (SINCE 1999) PRESERVATION ENTERPRISE OF TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES HIGASHIYAMA EAST-AREA DIRECTOR OF SECRETARIAT (SINCE 1999) RESERCH SOCIETY TO PRESERVE HISTORICAL & TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE HISTORICAL & TRADITIONAL STRUCTURES DIRECTOR OF SECRETARIAT (SINCE 2000)
• WATER ENVIRONMENTAL CIVIC SESSION COORDINATER (1997), VICE-CHAIRMAN (SINCE 1998)
• NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE PART-TIME TEACHER [ART ENGINEERING II, III AND WELFARE ENGINEERING]
• NAGOYA CHAMBER-OF-COMMERCE SMALL-SCALE COMPANY PROBLEM COMMITTEE AND NEW PRODUCT AND THE NEW TECHNICAL COMMON RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE OF THEME TYPE OPENING-SHOP EXAMINATION MEETING OF 2005 JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION (EXPO AICHI 2005).
• ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENTAL EXAMINER/JACO CHIEF ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTOR
• KANAZAWA HIGASHIYAMA MACHIZUKURI CONFERENCE MEMBER
• CITY AREA REPRODUCTION STUDY GROUP OF KANAZAWA MEMBER
• ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENTAL EXAMINER
• JACO CHIEF ENVIRONMENTAL INSPECTOR

Awaed list

• THE FIRST FLOWER VASE COMPETITION PRIZE BY SOUGETSU
• RECEIVED THE SECOND FLOWER VASE COMPETITION PRIZE BY SOUGETSU
• RECEIVED ENVIRONMENT DESIGN PRIZE RECEIVED

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