Month: April 2008

Travel

A short trip to Korea 1 / Airport to Hotel

It was the first time I went to Korea♪ Although it was a quite short trip as 2nights-3days, I enjoyed it so much! So I would write about it today. Well, what is convenient is that the flight departs from Haneda airport! This is soooo good. Especially I can use Keikyu line which goes to the airport directly. The flight was at 15:30 so I could stay at home until noon despite I was going to overseas! And the flight time is short as well. It took only about two hours to Gimpo airport. At the airport, a tour-guide who […]

Art&Exhibitions, Books, Digital products & Design

Laws of Simplicity

As this books hasn’t been translated into Japanese, I reluctantly started to read it in English. And finally I finished it!!! John Maeda, a professor at the media labo in MIT, writes about “simplicity”. Althought the volume of the book itself it not so big…. …Difficult! So difficult! He uses a lot of examples of product design such as iPod or B&O, but some of stories are rather phylosophical matters based on his life experiences. Well, my English ability is not good enough, that’s all. He says: “Simplicity and complexity need each other.” “What lies in the periphery of simplicity […]