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Hideyuki Kumagai

Hideyuki Kumagai



- Designer Profile -
Born in Osaka in 1979. After working at an architectural design firm, he joined T3 Design. He received the Hara Prize at the 7th SHACHIHATA New Product Design Competition, the Good Design Award, and was chosen for the 2011 compilation of “Applied Typography” among other achievements. He works designing almost anything, big or small, and hopes to “create things that help bring about new personal values and new opportunities for communication.”


- Designer Comments -

Our living spaces are often too warm in the winter and too cool in the summer. Maybe we don’t have to use our air conditioners as much as we do. It occurred to me that if instead of using conventional thermometers with numbers, we could be made aware of the temperature in a more intuitive manner, not unlike the way we experience the transition from one season to another. Doing so might help us notice the energy we are unknowingly wasting.