The wave of development moving along the Bowery in the wake of Sanaa's New Museum with its offhand infusion of sophisticated Japanese design already contains the marks of Meatpacking-District gentrification.
Shizue Melvin, designer at Edinburgh-based Scottish-Japanese tartan design company Sakura Scotland, said fashion conscious Japanese consumers have a disposition to Britain and British goods.
But during her 25 years as editor of her magazine she, as much as anyone, introduced Japanese furnishing design to Americans.
But I do know if the Japanese can design an affordable plug-in hybrid, then doggone it, the American people ought to be able to do it, too.
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Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant.
Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
He also enlisted Japanese architect Tadao Ando to design a 558-person theater, named Teatro Armani, in which to stage his men's and women's fashion shows, and created Armani Casa, a furniture business that adapts the designer's sleek, minimalist lines to sofas, tables and other interior designs.
Nokia also takes comfort from the fact that Japanese taste in mobile-phone design is rather different from European.
But on March 15 even that license renewal authorization was postponed indefinitely since it is a near design twin of the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi 1 reactor.
Natural light is the primary design element, complemented by Japanese natural stone, light Myanmar oak, and dark maple.
He studied both English and Japanese pattern-cutting techniques at Leggatts Design Academy (his graduate collection was all reversible) and worked as a costume designer before launching Black Coffee in 1998.
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It is also uncertain that the technologies ostensibly to be "flowed-back" to the United States in exchange for the F-16 technical data, etc. will be of comparable value to the U.S. defense industry as will, for example, insights provided to the Japanese into U.S. sophisticated design and manufacturing techniques.
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In a letter Monday to Republican congressional leaders, senior Democrats on a House panel that oversees the NRC noted that the commission recently voted to renew an operating license for a Vermont nuclear plant they said is of the same design as some of the troubled Japanese reactors.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
The problems are so far "beyond the design capacity" of the plant that the Japanese are working in uncharted territory, said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S. nuclear power plants.
Independent Capability: Proponents contend that, given the fact that the Japanese have already designed the FS-X predecessor (the F-1) and have coproduced the F-4 and F-15 fighter aircraft with McDonnell-Douglas, the Japanese have an independent capability, with time, to design and produce the FS-X.
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We are also getting a number of design wins in avionics, and in one example the Japanese space agency is using an MRAM chip in a satellite launched into orbit early this year to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
The Japanese automaker took Northwest under its wing, teaching it to more efficiently design and manufacture while steering millions of dollars in new business to it--even though its prices were 50% higher than any of a number of Asian suppliers.
While helping to design bicycles, he so complained about Bridgestone's advertising that his Japanese boss dumped the job in his lap and fired the agency.
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