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Newly confirmed participants include Takuya Koyama of Yabai T-Shirts Yasan, Noriko Kawakami, Yuma Harada, Niina Ai, and Takuto Okamoto.","whyItMatters":"A design festival built around talks and encounters rather than product launches is adding figures from music, animation, journalism, and architecture, which suggests the event's organizing idea is to put makers with different working methods in the same room and let the programs carry the theme.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe event uses THE CAMPUS, KOKUYO\u0026#39;s Tokyo Shinagawa office, as a whole venue rather than a single hall, and spreads its programs across three days. Alongside the talk sessions, the schedule includes workshops, meetups, table talks, and live performances.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeakers named for the talks represent design studios, animation, curation, video direction, product design, production, graphic design, consulting, architecture, art, and editing. One session covers how \u0026#34;interesting\u0026#34; is born; another looks at a web renewal project shared by mount inc. and KOKUYO staff; a third puts an architect and a designer in conversation about making and society, moderated by a book editor.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTakuya Koyama\u003c/strong\u003e: Gt.Vo. in Yabai T-Shirts Yasan, composer and filmmaker\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNoriko Kawakami\u003c/strong\u003e: journalist, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Associate Director, Vice Chair of the 2026 Good Design Award judging committee\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYuma Harada\u003c/strong\u003e: designer, UMA/design farm representative\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNiina Ai\u003c/strong\u003e: Sony Music Entertainment Echoes artist, works in animation expression including MV and art direction for YOASOBI\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;Yoru ni Kakeru\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTakuto Okamoto\u003c/strong\u003e: graphic designer and video director, MVs for Gen Hoshino\u0026#39;s \u0026#34;Star\u0026#34; and \u0026#34;Ikidomari\u0026#34; and the title logo for TV Tokyo Music Festival\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarina Fujiwara\u003c/strong\u003e: Muda Inc., Muda inventor; speaks on \u0026#34;How is \u0026#39;interesting\u0026#39; born?\u0026#34;\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMasahiro Yonemichi\u003c/strong\u003e: mount inc. Art Director; speaks on brand consistency and the web renewal\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaku Sasaki\u003c/strong\u003e: KOKUYO YOHAK DESIGN STUDIO Art Director and Designer\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaki Adachi\u003c/strong\u003e: KOKUYO Corporate Communication Office, WEB/SNS lead and site renewal project leader\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTomoyuki Arima\u003c/strong\u003e: Nippon Design Center Arima Design Laboratory Creative Director and Designer; moderator\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYuko Nagayama\u003c/strong\u003e: Yuko Nagayama \u0026amp; Associates, architect\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSayaka Ishii\u003c/strong\u003e: Bnn Inc., book editor, BNN Director and Deputy Editor-in-Chief; moderator\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"Featured Projects 2026 is on its third edition running under the theme \"The 'interval' in which things are born,\" which puts the curatorial idea, not the venue, at the center of the program.","twitterPost":"Featured Projects 2026 programs around a theme, not a venue: \"The 'interval' in which things are born\" drives the talks and workshops.","threadsPost":"Featured Projects 2026 runs September 25 to 27 at THE CAMPUS in Shinagawa, but the organizing idea is doing the work: \"The 'interval' in which things are born\" shapes the talk sessions, workshops, meetups, table talks, and live performances.","newsletterBlurb":"Featured Projects 2026 will run for three days from September 25 to 27 at KOKUYO's THE CAMPUS in Tokyo Shinagawa, using the venue as a composite space. The design festival's 2026 theme is \"The 'interval' in which things are born,\" and the program includes talk sessions, workshops, meetups, table talks, and live performances. Newly confirmed participants include Takuya Koyama of Yabai T-Shirts Yasan, journalist Noriko Kawakami, designer Yuma Harada, Echoes artist Niina Ai, and graphic designer and video director Takuto Okamoto.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"ASCII.jp\",\"url\":\"https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/434/4434042/?rss\",\"title\":\"A place for dialogue among makers driving the design scene: Design festival \\\"Featured Projects 2026\\\" announces talk sessions, live performances, and programs. 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