Designing a good life in rural Japan.
How you live, impacts what you create.
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GIBSON James
Designing a good life in rural Japan.
James is an artist, writer and Papersky Japan Stories contributing editor: “Outdoors & Design”. Over the many years and many projects such as Hamidashimono, Outdoors With Love & Oka Skateboards, James believes that good design comes from a good person; leading a good life. How you live, impacts what you create. Design principles and process are not enough, therefore one must start with designing one's own lifestyle. Leading by example, doing the utmost to live —design good— the change you want to see in the world.
Good design is:
leaving things better than how you found them.
nonviolent.
purposeful & rewarding.
supportive to the community and environment.
an act of self-betterment.
As a commercial designer James worked for Sony Design Centre, Live|Work, Studio D Radiodurans, Supreme, The Conran Shop, and Knee High Media —to name a few of his favourites. James was also an Associate Professor at Institute of Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan for 18 years; where he taught Life Design & Regenerative Design. Here he designed and built the outdoor classroom One Tree Academy and publish the book: Idea Sketching - A practical guide to workshops for ‘fostering’ ideas.