Last year, when we were in Tokyo exhibiting at the 100% Design Tokyo 2007, we managed to tour the Sony Building in Ginza. For anyone loving the latest technology from Sony, this building has 8 floors of just cool products, café, showrooms, shops and galleries. Up on the 8th floor, there was this exhibition called Canvas @ Sony.
It’s a collaboration of Sony and young contemporary artists in Japan. Artists expressed their own unique styles onto the Vaio laptop, Walkman®, headphones and cellphones. Inside the gallery space with the products were individual exhibits showcasing the 3 Japanese artists; Hajime Yoshio, ZAnPon and Ryuji Otani.
Canvas @ Sony
We left the building feeling nothing but awe, inspired and we have to admit, a bit envious, hoping that maybe someday leading American companies would support local U.S. artists to celebrate art, design and technology.