[Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association] “Shibuya Font Lab” will be visiting Tokyo Big Sight! “Manufacturing Art Laboratory” will be held at “H.C.R.2024 51st International Welfare Equipment Exhibition & Forum”
Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association Press release: September 27, 2024 “Shibuya Font Lab” will be visiting Tokyo Big Sight! “Manufacturing Art Laboratory” will be held at “H.C.R.2024 51st International Welfare Equipment Exhibition & Forum” At “H.C.R.2024,” which is expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors, people with disabilities will be able to see, touch, create, and enjoy things such as making things and appreciating art. Come and experience chatting too!
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-009c3ea4e46832dee6bce6ab8f96bb38-3900×3541.jpg “Shibuya Font Lab will be visiting Tokyo Big Sight! Key visual for “Manufacturing/Art-making/Laboratory” Shibuya Font, a general incorporated association (co-representatives: Ayumu Isomura, Tsutomu Furuto), is participating in the “H.C.R. 2024 51st International Welfare Equipment Exhibition & Forum,” sponsored by the National Council of Social Welfare, a social welfare corporation, and the Health and Welfare Public Relations Association, a general
incorporated foundation. (hereinafter referred to as H.C.R.2024), “Shibuya Font Lab will be visiting Tokyo Big Sight! We will hold “Manufacturing/Art Making/Laboratory”. On April 17, 2024, our company will open the “Shibuya Font Lab (*)”, a place for experimental encounters, on the 7th floor of Tokyu Plaza Harajuku “Harakado”. We have created a place to meet people with disabilities through interactive art ideas that can be enjoyed together with others, and fashion shows featuring people with disabilities and creators. In “H.C.R.2024”, we will hold an event at “Tokyo Big Sight” to create a place for interaction with people with disabilities, which has been cultivated at “Shibuya Font Lab”, and interact with people with disabilities to realize a cohesive society. We will continue to expand. In addition, “Shibuya Font Lab” will be temporarily closed during the preparation and period (October 1st to 4th).
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-c27b10c3a926291d2f5782089161a06a-1280×960.jpg Shibuya Font Lab “Event Space”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-5b25fd37bcd3f7e6f9b4d609d275b99a-1280×960.jpg Shibuya Font Lab “Gallery Space” (*) “Shibuya Font Lab” Press Release Overview Event name: Shibuya Font Lab, a place for experimental encounters “Manufacturing Art Laboratory”, will be visiting Tokyo Big Sight! Period: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 – Friday, October 4, 2024 10:00-17:00 (Until 16:00 on Friday, October 4 only) Venue: Tokyo International Exhibition Center “Tokyo Big Sight” East 4 Hall 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0063 Access :
https://www.bigsight.jp/visitor/access/ Exhibition area : 180 square meters (15m x 12m) including backyard Co-hosted :National Social Welfare Council, Social Welfare Corporation, Health and Welfare Public Relations Association Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association Cooperation : Kobo Palette, Stride Club, TEN TONE, Nozomi Workshop, Work Center Hikawa Admission registration:
https://hcr.or.jp/registration *To reduce congestion at the reception desk, we recommend that you register for admission in advance (individuals and groups). On the day of your visit, please bring the “admission pass” issued after registration. H.C.R.2024 51st
International Welfare Equipment Exhibition & Forum Official Website : https://hcr.or.jp/ Manufacturing Art Laboratory Introduction Website : https://hcr.or.jp/seminar/12 Shibuya Font General Incorporated Association Official Website : https://www.shibuyafont.jp/ Special present The first 428 people who follow Shibuya Font’s SNS will receive a tote bag with an original H.C.R. 2024 design that visitors can customize with Shibuya Font stamps. This tote bag can be engraved with the “local font (*)” of our future town using a Shibuya font stamp, and is a product that allows you to embody the social movement that is currently spreading in 16 districts across the country. I’m here. The design uses Shibuya Font’s “road font”. If you are interested, please come to the reception desk of “Manufacturing Art Laboratory”.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-01d034d1581455580b4fd3cda4a6cad7-1313×1294.png H.C.R. 2024 original design tote bag (*) Local Fonts is a social project that spreads co-created designs (fonts and patterns) between people with disabilities, designers, and students throughout Japan and around the world. Local font official website:
https://www.gotouchifont.jp/ Shibuya Font “road font” download page: https://www.gotouchifont.jp/downloads/road-font/ Venue design We will develop the interior design of “Shibuya Font Lab” at Tokyo Big Sight so that you can experience a simulated experience of “Shibuya Font Lab” in Harajuku. (1) Total length 22m! A huge art wall from “Shibuya Font Lab” has appeared! The art wall installed at “Shibuya Font Lab” will be unveiled at Tokyo Big Sight. At the venue, please enjoy the powerful art that is the largest of “Shibuya Font” on the main art wall that colors the entire booth and the huge art wall with a total length of 22 meters that is designed integrally with each of the four booths.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-0bf59a60fbd2f134011e3e6635ba6714-1500×336.jpg Main art wall (width 12m, height 2.7m) that adopts the wall art design of “Shibuya Font Lab”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-1d1fdf1e0c7699c7e497de2d884a8563-3020×740.png The main art wall, which has a total length of 22m, is linked with the art at each of the four booths.
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demonstrations and workshops, as well as the products for sale, is designed to create a sense of anticipation. It is an original design limited to H.C.R.2024 that follows the design of the furniture installed at “Shibuya Font Lab”, and you can enjoy a variety of color changes, such as pink from one direction and green from the opposite direction.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-4e64099f5630f9e674f5861261d73f47-1874×1886.png A booth with a bold design that includes demonstrations, workshop content, and sales products
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-92619794548edc9ce75e95b08270a37b-2586×1510.png Floor plan of the H.C.R. 2024 original booth modeled after the furniture of “Shibuya Font Lab”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-1401e5acc0d311ed50366d79736a6576-3000×2250.jpg Original furniture installed in “Shibuya Font Lab” (photo above: left) (3) Immersive booth design that allows simulated visits to support businesses for people with disabilities The booth design is a reproduction of the interior of a disability support office used by people with disabilities. People with disabilities who use the facility conduct demonstration sales themselves, so that customers can feel as if they are actually visiting the facility.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-2a8ef9f68f98f55aca3b7d0bedcde5cf-2378×1852.png We took pictures of the inside of the offices of TEN TONE, Stride Club, Kobo Palette, Work Center Hikawa, and Nozomi Workshop, which are participating in “Shibuya Font”, and used them as a booth design (4) A boldly designed booth with a “brain” arrangement that evokes the feeling of the brain shedding its skin The booth design is linked to the cover design of the book “Brain Shedding Museum (*)”, which introduces Shibuya Font’s interactive art thinking, to foster a mind that generates new ideas (brain shedding). . The two booths will be set up so that you can experience two types of programs: “Creative Thinking and Observation” and “Team Building and Listening.” In addition, this program will be facilitated by Shibuya Font certified art facilitator and Osamu Fukushima, professor emeritus at Tokyo Polytechnic University, author of the book “The Art Museum Where the Brain Sheds.”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-942f48d67f82621ec37835497dfc14b2-2570×1778.png Booth design linked to book design (*) Press release about Shibuya Font certified art facilitator (*) Book “Museum where the brain sheds its skin” sales site https://amzn.asia/d/iTnM6t0 Experience content We will be holding a manufacturing experience and manufacturing demonstration by Shibuya Font’s participating support businesses for people with disabilities in Shibuya Ward, “Kobo Palette,” “TEN TONE,” “Stride Club,” and “Work Center Hikawa.” In addition, we will hold an interactive art thinking experience session led by Shibuya Font certified art facilitators. Please note that the dates of events held by the Disabled Persons Support Office vary, so please check on-site. (1) Manufacturing experience held at a support office for people with disabilities ・Love Love (*) (small) making 1,500 yen (tax included) (provided by Kobo Palette) ・Hair tie making/brooch making 600 yen (tax included) (Provided by Kobo Palette) ・Drip bag stamping and sealing 1,000 yen (tax included) (provided by Stride Club) ・Painting on a wooden key case 800 yen (tax included) (Provided by TEN TONE) ・Making the traditional craft “Welcome Hachiko” Participation condition is to purchase the finished product for 2,200 yen (tax included) (provided by Nozomi Workshop) ・Can badge
making/Magnet making 500 yen (tax included) (Provided by Work Center Hikawa) (*) “Love Labi” is a stuffed animal made by sewing, gluing, and wrapping unnecessary cloth, buttons, beads, etc. Artists with disabilities rearrange each item one by one and create and sell them as one-of-a-kind stuffed animals in the world at Studio Palette. https://www.shibuya-univ.net/report/detail/949/
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-92367a91e9e227dc488bf739b5ae9285-2995×2406.jpg How the original Love Love (small) was created (2) Manufacturing demonstration by people with disabilities ・Love making, hair tie making, brooch making (provided by Kobo Palette) ・Stamping and sealing the drip bag (Courtesy of Stride Club) ・Hand-woven rug (provided by TEN TONE) ・Making the traditional craft “Welcoming Hachiko” (*) (Courtesy of Nozomi Workshop) ・Can badge making, artwork (provided by Work Center Hikawa) (*) “Welcome Hachiko” is a traditional craft made at the Nozomi Workshop, where everything from pasting washi paper to painting is done based on a prototype printed with a 3D printer. https://shibuyaswc.jp/blog/4731/
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-b761ef01e9f5f173ca55371782d2819c-3900×2600.jpg Production of the traditional craft “Welcome Hachiko” (3) Sales of independent products by support businesses for people with
disabilities ・Love Love, sweets (sold by Kobo Palette) ・Drip bag (sold by Stride Club) ・Woodworking goods, embroidery products, cloth products (sold by TEN TONE) ・Traditional craft “Inviting Hachiko” (sold by Nozomi Workshop) ・Can badge making (sold by Work Center Hikawa)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-8ccc6136eb848c3e06155fbec49c37e4-1477×1108.jpg Independent product sales by a support office for people with disabilities (4) Making one-of-a-kind products in the world with Shibuya font stamps Tumblers and mini pouches with original designs using Shibuya font and local fonts (Toyama font) can be freely decorated with Shibuya font stamps. You can make only one tumbler in the world. ・Shibuya Font Original Tumbler 1,200 yen (tax included) ・Local font original tumbler 1,200 yen (tax included) ・H.C.R. 2024 original tumbler 1,200 yen (tax included) ・Mini pouch 900 yen (tax included)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/97163/22/97163-22-60ac653e557d4d813596c654176b9937-1160×1159.png Arrangement with Shibuya font stamps
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Interactive art thinking to appreciate Shibuya font This is an original program created to appreciate Shibuya fonts. Enjoy this magical experience where even those who have met for the first time at the venue can naturally open up and have a conversation. In addition, each booth will offer programs with points that are effective for the brain, such as “communication and listening skills” and “creative thinking and observation skills.”
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