Tokyo Designer’s Week Container Exhibition 2007 OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 4, 2007 Set during Tokyo Designerís Week, the largest and most influential design event in Japan, this interactive graphical installation was designed by Tom Tor and MEF for Teraoka Seiko. The container exhibition is an empty 40 ft cargo container space which TT and MEF transformed into an exhibition site. Using customized software and sophisticated programming and hardware, an exhibitorís weight is recorded as one stands on the weight scale which will translate into motion graphics onto a screen through the use of a projector. The graphics react according to the personís weight as various hues of color display with particle animations that reflects the theme that has been set forth by TDW called “LOVE”.

Tom Tor’s Aka MEF debut at this year’s Tokyo Designer’s Exhibition was a huge success as it attracted and entertained thousands of visitors from around the world. For one week only during the holiday season, it will be featured at (marunouchi)HOUSE in the Shin Marunouchi Building, one of the busiest shopping/corporate plazas in Tokyo. Come and “Feel the Growth!”.

In conjunction with DesignTide in Tokyo, I was invited to create a motion graphics trailer called the Tide MOVIE project. Based on this year’s main theme “PLAY”, I aka Eskimo along with a handful of leading designers in the industry was given the challenge of producing an animation that interprets our own unique form of the meaning “PLAY”, MEF along with a handful of leading designers in the industry was given the challenge of producing an animation that interprets our own unique form of the meaning “PLAY”. The main site and a grand total of about 50 extension sites, including interior shops and galleries in Aoyama, Harajuku, Shibuya, and Roppongi areas displayed our works. The trailer also featured on Shibuya-109 TV billboard, Harajuku-PARCO TV billboard, Roppongi-Hills TV billboard, Tokyo Midtown TV billboard.