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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.

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 is a packing material to be used in bulk-type packaging for shipping disk-shaped auto parts. The design had to take into account the size of the outer frame specified by the customer. In cases where the required quantity of packing boxes was placed according to product size, there was a large gap on the left and right sides of the frame. We proposed a corrugated board with a structure that could fill in the gaps, making the package resistant to lateral vibration. The product was adopted after rigorous vibration tests under harsh conditions.

We have received various certifications verifying our consideration of environmental issues, and all production activities at our own factory are carbon negative. We strive to reduce the environmental impacts of the materials we use, such as by suggesting the use of environmentally friendly paper.

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.

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.”