1 chair, 50 animations – “Manga Chairs”

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From the Japanese Design Studio Nendo I’ve had quite a few creations here on the blog over the years. Starting with the US paper clip in 2011, then over Chocolate paint tubes and entertaining office supplies up to minimalist cuckoo clocks. For once, “50 Manga Chairs” isn’t about physical items you can buy, but rather an animated item you can look at. The seemingly inconspicuous chair drawn changes 50 times over the course of the skillfully animated video.

50 manga chairs is the result of adapting the strong symbolic nature of manga comics to furniture design.
Manga consist of a series of frames on a single sheet of paper that creates a sequence. Similarly, 50 standard chairs are lined up in a grid, each one conjures up a sense of story, and each with a design element from manga. For example, a “speech bubble” or “effect line” are added to visualize sound or action. Or emotional symbols from manga, like “sweat” or “tears”, are formed so that a sense of story and character can be felt.

Manga is a means of expression with a high degree of flatness and abstraction, and which is composed of a series of lines. We could say that manga comics are deeply rooted in Japanese culture, since they can be traced back to Ukiyoe prints developed during the Edo period (1603-1868 A.D.).

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