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Project #001

Japanese Rooms (photo book)
How do the Japanese live in Japan? How do they live abroad? Do they create their own culture in foreign cities? What do they take with them from home? Feelings, things – sensuous or tangible memories?
The artist and graphic designer Sven Ingmar Thies gained insight into the lives of 82 Japanese citizens in five global cities over the course of nine years: Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Shanghai and Vienna.

Japanese Rooms was awarded the iF gold selection 2008 after it had already won the iF communication design award in the categories photography and book design.

The book is available at tubuk.com (Schwarzerfreitag Publishing), all bookshops and online. (Sven Ingmar Thies, Japanese Rooms, ISBN 3937623906)

Exhibitions

- 06.02.-05.03.2009 at Japanese-German Center Berlin, Germany
- 21.04.-08.09.2009 at the Museum of Ethnology Vienna, Austria

Press

You can download press releases in English, Japanese and German [zip, 8KB]. For a PDF presentation of the book and further information please e-mail our PR coordinator Jockel Weichert.

About Kaitenart

Kaitenart is an art and publishing project focusing on Japanese arts and culture as well as on art in a Japanese context. It is a collaboration between Sven Ingmar Thies (www.thiesdesign.com) and Schwarzerfreitag Publishing, an independent publisher.


Legal: Sven Ingmar Thies, Baererstrasse 35, 21073 Hamburg, +49-175-40 48 48 8