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The slogan for this year's event was 'Hello Design!,' with the legend emblazoned onto these bags handed out to early attendees.
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As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, NTT Docomo showed off all 611 phones in its history at Tokyo Designers Week 2012.
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This year's show revolved around the themes of "House" and "Play," reflected in many of the outdoor exhibits.
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A student from South Korea's Sejong University rolls up his cabinet. His team designed entirely foldable living quarters and slept in them on site for the duration of the week.
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Ototoki, from Kyushu Sangyo University, is a building-sized percussion instrument designed to be played by its inhabitants.
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'Pretense,' an installation from Nihon University.
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Namiko Shinohara talks about her giant rabbit projects.
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This house made of saran wrap is from Tama Art University and explores the relationship between people and architecture.
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Masafumi Tashiro's "Dance with Space" installation consisted of a levitating table.
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Manga on display at Tokyo Designers Week.
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Studio_01's "Barcode Room" allows the walls and furniture to be moved freely along rails across the ceiling.
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"scoreLight," a musical instrument that plays sounds in response to darting laser beams.
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Exhibitors demonstrate Necomimi, the brainwave-controlled cat ears that briefly took Japan by storm.
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Nuuo's "Nubot" is a communication robot designed to bring more animation to Skype video chats.
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Motuungee, designed by students at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, is intended to make better use out of corners.
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Many of the installations and exhibits at Tokyo Designers Week are housed in outdoor cargo containers.
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Zillion's David Guarino designed these hand-wrapped kimono skateboards.
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Graffiti from Presto and Titi Freak. "Shinjiru" means "believe" in Japanese.
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An exhibitor sits on top of her exhibit towards the end of a show day.
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Attendees examine an exhibit from Waseda University.
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Docomo's exhibit provided an opportunity to see some of the more unusual phones in the carrier's history, such as this 2010 LG handset with a Pentax 3x optical zoom lens.
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This Paldio phone was fashioned in the image of popular manga and anime character Doraemon.
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NTT's earliest cellphones predate the Docomo brand itself, which was introduced in 1992.
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It seems the carrier tried out just about every possible form factor at some point over the past two decades.
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This plastic cup installation is called "Yuragi," meaning "flicker," and is the work of Aoyama Technical College.
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Nissha Pax makes products such as this coathanger and toy out of hardened paper.
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Toyo University showed off some deck chairs with personality.
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The international section of the main Tokyo Designers Week hall feels like a market, with designers from all corners of the world hawking various wares.
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The Designium's "Arm Clock" employs Kinect to let you set the time with your own two arms.
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TicTac's Click-Watches show the time with a lightswitch-style press of a button.
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A simple temple constructed from Kawada Nanoblocks, a popular and small-scale Japanese alternative to Lego.
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Docomo's 611 phones were placed in a single, extraordinarily long cabinet that could take a while to pass in its entirety.
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Eriko Kasahara's "Lumi Babies."
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Akitoshi Imafuku and Supermaniac Inc.'s "Shunkan-light."
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Event workers advertising a paper hat workshop.
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Haruna Ono exhibited her Zwart label's distinctive heeled shoes.
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Several art exhibits were part of a series inspired by Edo-era painter Ito Jakuchu, such as Junko Koshino's "The Coat which Flies Away."
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Alberto Meda's "Lightness."
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Zhang Ke's "The Shinki of Chairs."
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Yoichiro Kawaguchi's "Growth:Tendril."
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One of the more practical designs on show: a piggy bank maraca.
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Klein Dytham's giraffe-shaped skyscraper concept was one of the standout architecture exhibits.
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People entering the event site well into the night.
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