Life tools created by users and creators.
Produced by a Japanese craftsman who is a partner of Pint!
The planners are the users, not the buyers or designers.
What are the characteristics of this material and what is it suitable for? Processing technology can do this, but it cannot. What steps are taken and how long does it take to make a product? Also, how is it different now from what you were making in the past? (For example, there was a time when a large number of tea chests and trays were made for ryokan (traditional Japanese-style inns) in the area of wood-turned products.
The craftsmen and Pint! will tell you about these things first.
Knowing this, users think about how they would like to use the materials and techniques in their current lives, and how they would fit in, from the user's point of view in their daily lives.
This is the form of manufacturing that Pint! has been aiming for since its establishment.
I'll give you a little more detail.
What I want to make is a tool for living.
In the old days, people used to make their own tools out of materials they could find around their homes.
Inevitably made from natural materials and made as everyday tools, they are simple, easy to use, and possess a quiet beauty and strength.
And the natural material will become familiar and grow as you use it.
In chronological order, this goes back to the past than Muneyoshi Yanagi's concept of folk art, but it is positioned as folk implements.
I wanted to make a tool that fits the current life with this way of origin of folk tools.
We make modern folk tools!
It is not the participants of the users who make things, but the creators. (This is different from the workshop)
Pint!'s representative, Nakachi, is a skilled craftsman who met directly by visiting the production area.
It is the users who plan the product.
When thinking about tools for everyday use, I believe that we can achieve a level of craftsmanship that cannot be achieved by designers, buyers, or makers.
I don't mean that it should be a new perspective just because it's from the user's point of view.
(If you think about product planning from the seller's side, you will have to focus on "selling".)
Pint! connects users and creators.
It is a project that reviews the way things are created, not limited to workshops and collaborations with designers.
A project that forms the core of Pint!
In 2014, we were able to hold an event in collaboration with Kagure.
The name is "Everyone's Tool" (Kagure co-sponsored project, Kaguko Lab).
From summer to winter of 2014, about five months, eight customers participated in a total of five sessions.
The product planned this time is "wiping lacquerware for daily use".
I asked Mr. Ogura of Kanekin Ogura tray factory in Nagiso, Nagano Prefecture to make it.
For the third time, I brought the machine to the Omotesando store and actually sawed the wood and made it while interacting with Mr. Ogura.
Thanks to everyone who participated, Mr. Ogura, and the Kagure staff, it was a wonderful event.
The finished product is here ↓
Wiping lacquer utensils that can be used every day (Everyone's item vol.0)
Please see the links below for detailed reports on each event.
1st 7/12 (Sat) About the material "wood"
2nd 7/26 (earthenware) product planning meeting
3rd 8/10 (Sun) Inviting a woodturner to make a sample
4th 9/21 (Sun) Finishing "Lacquer"
5th 12/6 (Sat) Completion announcement Launching dinner party with dishes brought in
We proceeded with manufacturing from scratch.
This vessel is not a product for this event, and will be sold at Pint! and Kagura.
I don't think it's easy to spend so much time and time making things with general users, but I hope it will increase.
It is not just a matter of connecting the points of experiencing manufacturing, but learning, touching, and thinking together from the beginning of the creation of a product.
You may feel like your own child.
I think that even after you start using it, you will always have a wonderful relationship.
I think it's good to be able to connect with lines and planes instead of points.
This project is not the purpose of simply collecting projects from the consumer's perspective and creating something that sells.
The finished product itself is important, but in the process, it is an opportunity to review the relationship with "things" that tend to be wide and shallow, to create your own judgment criteria by knowing things, and to take a look at your life. I hope
We plan to continue this project.
I would like to increase it as much as possible.
This year, we have received inquiries in places other than Tokyo, and we are preparing to hold the event in other regions as well.
From now on, I am excited to work with local creators and users.
If you are interested, please contact info@pint.mn.
We would be grateful if you could contact us without hesitation, regardless of the location or industry, whether you are a joint planner (shops, museums, galleries, local governments, etc.), creators, participants who are users.
let's do it together.
Thank you very much.
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