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Feature: The Modular Issue

The spirit of cutting-edge creativity and innovation comes to life in Found. We aspire to showcase international, !"#$%%!&$"#'(")'!"*+$"#!(%')$,!&",'(")'styles. Our aim is always to ensure that -.+'/'.+0',+1,20!1$0,'/'(0$'#3$'40,#'#.'see the latest and greatest in modern design from around the globe.

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pg 4-6TAKASHI MURAKAMIGraphic Design

pg 7-9MUGLERFashion Design

pg 10-12GRAVEL PLANTProduct Design

pg 13-15NESTLÉ CHOCOLATE MUSEUMArchitecture

An astute manipulator of visual languages, artistic mediums and

business models

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/ GRAPHIC DESIGN / Takashi Murakami 04


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Takashi Murakami has been shaking up the art world since the early 1990s with his unconventional approach to both subject matter and artistic production

Murakami's style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga.

Takashi Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, initially studying more traditional Japanese art. He pursued a doctorate in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting. However, due to the popularity of anime and manga, Japanese styles of animation and comic graphic stories, Murakami became disillusioned with Nihonga. He became passionate about otaku culture, which he felt was more representative of modern-day Japanese life.

What makes Murakami different is his methods of production, and his work is not in one store front but many, ranging from toy stores, candy aisles, comic book stores, and the French design house of Louis Vuitton. Murakami's style is an amalgam of his Western predecessors, Warhol, Oldenberg and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as Japanese predecessors and contemporaries of anime and manga.

He has successfully marketed himself to Western culture and to Japan in the form of Kaikai Kiki and GEISAI.

Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism.

Like Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami takes low culture and repackages it, and sells it to the highest bidder in the "high-art" market.


Never content to play the traditional role of the solitary artist, Murakami has moved into even broader areas of the art world, seeking out new talent among young Japanese artists and becoming a curator for shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles and the Japan Society in New York.

For creating his own art, he has developed a unique factory-style production line in studios in Tokyo and in New York—that involves dozens of artists and assistants and runs like a well-oiled machine.

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Restoring disused industrial shapes and placing them into a new context is the concept behind Mieke Meijers latest project, based on industrial archaeology. By reducing scale and playing with volume, Mieke creates autonomous interior objects.

Made up of recycled oak wood, steel and glass,Gravel Plant comprise of a jumble of wooden geometric frames. The shelves and desk can be maneuvered and rearranged #.'73!23$8$0'2."4&+0(#!."'#3$'+,$0'!,'2.<;.0#(1%$'7!#39'Like many of her previous works, Meijer never fails to inject a sense of playfulness in her creations.


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