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To date, 11 series of our products have won the Good Design Award, which is an award judged comprehensively for products that improve peoples’ everyday lives and society through design.

"setneck" is a true home chiropractic product developed through trial and error in response to requests from patients who get treated at osteopathic clinics. Therapists use their fingers in directly treating the affected area. The neck is a particularly delicate part of the human body that is extremely difficult to treat without many years of training, study, and practice. The setneck design faithfully mimics the form of the therapist's hands during neck treatments.

We assisted the Sugiyama Clinic in Ama City, in Aichi, with signage renovation work following the renaming to the Furumichi Acupuncture Clinic. We started by creating a logo. As the target market is young women, we designed it from a woman's point of view so that they would find it easy to visit. We believe that the logo expresses Dr. Sugiyama's belief that "an acupuncture clinic can represent a pivotal moment in someone's life.”

Applicable to any shape or form, this process can be used to express the image, exact as desired, not only on flat surfaces, but also on bending surfaces, solid shapes, and other three-dimensional curved surfaces that were previously considered impossible. Moreover, going beyond applying transfers to processed surfaces with the addition of our superior coating and painting technologies can further enhance the product's added value.

Kodama Project is the initiative to connect upstream-mountain people with downstream-town people, bringing together local resources and people through goods and materials. We plan, develop, and sell furniture, architecture, food, sundries, materials, and experiences that make use of locally-sourced natural materials.
The Kodama Base shown in the photo is a movable hut that can be transported by truck and installed in the space for a single car without the need for a construction permit. It is built using Tono cedar and Tono cypress for its structural, exterior, and interior timbers, plywood, and laminated timbers, all of which are sourced from the upstream area of the Higashi-Shirakawa Village in Gifu Prefecture. The basic model has nothing inside. The floor is solid cypress wood and the walls are soft plywood, so users can add shelves and customize it as they see fit. Equipped with insulation, installing a single air conditioner provides a comfortable place to be.

This environmentally friendly bubble cushioning material is made with 28% less polyethylene resin than conventional products, containing 30% or more biomass plastic. Using plastic material made from sugarcane-derived biomass resources, this wholly unique product is certified by the Japan BioPlastics Association. Application of nanotechnology results in films that are stronger yet thinner, decreasing the amount of raw material used while reducing both carbon dioxide emissions and waste.