HENKADEN : Ever-changing Design & Development of Electric Appliance

Abstract

"Henkaden" is a product name of new electric appliances developed and designed by Hirokazu Yamada to reconsider them and make them fit to present living. Maki Yamada did the support. The design development process of "Henkaden" was introduced as a theme exhibition in Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, curated by Tomoaki Kitagawa, from 7th July to 23rd September. This exhibition consisted of four chapters (I. Electricity, II. Personal, III. Living and IV. Housings), showing 15 product works with technologies that were designed for small and medium-sized manufacturers to easily develop by low negative environmental impacts and low development cost. Most of the audiences showed their interest and gave positive reponses to the concepts and products by Yamada, so that growing interest in the new electric appliances designed to reconsider our daily life radically is well justified.