Makoto Tojiki
Makoto Tojiki is an artist and designer who uses light as his primary medium of expression.
Tojiki, a 1998 industrial design engineering graduate of Kinki University,
devoted his personal time to experimenting with light while employed as an industrial designer.
In 2003, he launched his career as an artist.
Early on, Tojiki produced small works intended for production, but found this limiting and branched out into artistic images of objects constructed from light.

1975: Born in Miyazaki, Japan.
1998: Graduated Kinki University Kyushu faculty of engineering industrial design.
1998-2003: Work as a inhouse product designer.
2003: Start activity as a freelance.
2014: Lives and works in Chiba, Japan.

1975年宮崎生まれ。近畿大学九州工学部（現産業理工学部）産業デザイン学科卒業後、プロダクトデザイナーとしてメーカー勤務を経て独立。現在千葉在住。

His "No Shadow" series is inspired by the interconnectedness of light and shadow and how they can be manipulated and controlled. Tojiki begins his creative process by breaking down the light and the shadow to capture the essence of their symbiosis resulting in fleeting images that are as ephemeral and enigmatic as shadow itself.
Concept
ある物事が今までと違って見えることがある。　
それはきっと物事が変化したのではなく捉え方が変わった為だと思う。
そしてそれは、物事に潜んでいる本質にも関係があるのではないか。
僕は“人の物事の捉え方は、いつ何のきっかけで変わるのか”に興味がある。
作品を通して人の物事の捉え方に刺激を与えたい。
Sometimes an object appears differently from how we remember it to be. Yet, this is often not because the object itself has changed, but it is caused by a change in the observer's perspective. This change may also be related to, and expressive of, the object's essence.
My interest is in exploring, “When, and for what reason, does a person's perception of an object change?” Through my work, I seek to stimulate how people see objects.
Projects
2024: IGNITE ART & LIGHT FESTIVAL / Florida
2021: Olympic Agora - Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 /  Tokyo
2019: Chiba Art Festival 2019 - Tokyo 2020 Cultural Olympiad /  Chiba
2018: Virtual bird park /  Yokohama
2014: Mein Schiff 3 Klanghaus entrance display /  Germany
2014: EIN HERZ FÜR UNICEF  /  Germany
2013: valveat 81 3rd Anniversary installation  /  Tokyo
2013: Clé de Peau Beauté HK office entrance display  /  Hong Kong
2012: L'ART DE LA RADIANCE EXHIBITION  /  Hong Kong
2012: Clé de Peau Beauté HK 30th Anniversary installation  /  Hong Kong
2010: HERMÈS installation  /  Hong Kong
2010: HERMÈS installation  /  Shanghai
2010: SAUT HERMÈS at Grand Palais installation  /  Paris
2010: HERMÈS mens shop opening party installation  /  NY
2009: Salone Satellite  /  Milano
2009: See The Light  /  Copenhagen
2008: 9th SICF  /  Tokyo
2007: interior lifestyle  /  Tokyo
2007: ICFF  /  NY
2007: 8th SICF  /  Tokyo
2007: TOKYO DESIGN PREMIO  /  Milano
2005: Salon du Meuble  /  Paris
2004: DESIGNER'S WEEK  /  Tokyo
2003: DESIGNER'S WEEK  /  Tokyo
Client
Bureau of Cultural Affairs Kaohsiung City Government
Chiba prefectural office
Commerzbank AG
Dansk Design Center
dentsu
dentsu kyushu
Design Association NPO
HERMÈS
INPUT/OUTPUT
IOC OFCH(Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage)
Kashikey
Louise Alexander Gallery
MAD ARTS
MARK STYLER
Mitsui Fudosan
MRC DuPont
Piso Comodo
PRAP JAPAN, Inc.
SHISEIDO Clé de Peau Beauté
SPIRAL
unicef
Wacoal Art Center


Personal collector


Self production
  - Light
  - Jewelry / Reff
Press
Audi magazine
Azure magazine
Box International Trade
caras decoracao
CORRIERE DELLA SERA
COVER magazine
CITY
designboom
DESIGN INDABA MAGAZINE
DESIGN INDABA web site
France5 TV
INTERIOR DESIGN
International Lighting Design Index 2010
ICON MAGAZINE
Japan Cinema.net
LE MONDE D'HERMÈS 2010 Volume2
Lighting magazine
New Scientist
online magazine Archilight
salone satellite 20anni di nuova creativita
SPAZIO CASA
Surface Asia Magazine
The Huffington Post
TWENTY6 Magazine
WORK shop
3lux:letters
アクシス
新しい住まいの設計Web
X-knowledge HOME　特別編集vol.12　新世代建築家・デザイナー100
オールアバウト
コラージ
商店建築
繊研新聞
日経デザイン

他
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