This study is the first step towards the traditional space design in the regional society. In this paper, we take up the media of Kami and Hotoke as the one of means by which we are to approach the problem of space design. Surveying the daily and non-daily (Ke and Hare) phenomena of life in Mura society; Hakobara, Yamanashi Prefecture, we intend to clarify the nature of traditional space design. The discussed points are summarized as follows; (1) The space has, so to speak, two faces. One is the daily, physical and coporeal. The other is the non-daily, metaphysical and incorporeal. (2) These two faces of the space are to relieve each other. The chance for the change of the former to the latter is the yearly events which are handed down in the regional society. (3) The change takes place on the point, the line and the area. The annual function is the element to accent the daily life and its circumstances. (4) In Mura, the traditional regional society, the relief between that two faces of the space above mentioned springs up in the close connection with men's life; agricultural life. (5) It is the problem to keep our designer's eyes upon and to take interest in the nature of the traditional space design which shows the signs of life in the regional society now.

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We have developed sciences and technologies as well as have created innumerable art-objects, and also have established scientific analytical approaches and variety of visual cordifications, in conjunction with the human faculties to create artifacts which have no existance in our natural surroundings. Yet, so far the creative mechanism as a human own faculty has been rarely studied in the process of formation and mutation of product from the stand point of synthesizing conducts at its feasibility study. The purpose of this study is to analyze some formative and mutative design processes and designed products as phenomena resulted from knowledge intensives of human acts, and to find common design denominators and synthesizing conducts governed by their design methods and methodologies. The discussed points consists of 5 parts, they are as following; 1) Introduction: Part 1. Nature and structure of product design in general. Part 2. Analysis on formation and mutation of product in general. 2) Purpose and out-line of this study: in which, the reasons why a series of electric toaster is chosen as the material to be analyzed for the purpose. 3) Historical background and classification of toasters: Part 1. Inter-relation between breads and toasting apparatueses in some chronological orders. Part 2. Toasters classified from the stand point of handling, control and construction. 4) Examination and analysis on the series of toaster: Part 1. On handling of the toasters. Part 2. From human controls to automatized mechanical controls of the toasters. Part 3. Inter-relation between various controls and constructions of the toasters. 5) Conclusive notes: In a process of designing, especially at a stage of hypothetical feasibility studies, the professional may seek the total value of a product sometime beyond an appropriate function to a condition in which the product is properly used. In this particular studies, the FULL AUTO POP-UP TYPE and THROUGH TYPE toasters are the ones that they are beyond the proper values of the toaster in conjunction with the condition in which those particular toasters are to be used.

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Where two colors of similar lightness are placed side by side, they often appear as a light reflected on one side and a shadow on the other along the boundary. These appearances are quite exciting where saturated warm colors are concerned. So, it is called the vibrating boundary. To research such a phenomenon the author tried one experiment with color-line samples. From the experimental results, it is assumed tha the appearances relate to such a contour phenomenon of warm and cold colors as the Mach band in the case of brightness contrast. And the appearances of the "vibrating boundary" are also discussed for the application to designing.

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A new layout design for newspaper pages is proposed. The design has been developed under the hypothesis that a newspaper in mass media communication should be one of the material sources upon which make it possible to its readers to recognize and judge properly what happens around him. In order to be that sort of material sources, a newspaper must satisfy the requirements such as follows; I. Each page should have orderliness and clearness in layout to be used as material sources. 2. Each page should contain articles which have been selected and evaluated by certain criteria. The layout should show the reader clearly the result of these selection and evaluation. 3. Articles appeared should guarantee readers their possitive attitudes. 4. Articles should be selected and evaluated so as to assure readers their choice. The new layout of newspaper page reflected these requirements is proposed with illustrations in the text.

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According to the first report [Measurement of loads applied on chairs] by the present authors the greatest stress is measured when the dynamic sitting posture is taken. We developed a new repeating impact testing machine that gives the loads similar to the ones caused when the dynamic sitting posture is taken, and we named this testing method by our new machine F.T. method. The durability of the chairs was measured both by F.T. method and by J.J.S. method, and the results were compared. The width of legs of the chairs used in the experiment has two sorts and that of the rails has three sorts. The joint construction used was of mortise-and-tenon joint or of dovel joint. According to the result of the experiment, the impact load caused when J.I.S. method is applied is excessively larger than that which caused when F.T. method is applied, and it was made clear that the durability cannot be compared by M.S. method, though the strength of the chair can be compaired by it. The results obtained by F.T. method are summarized as follows; 1) The durability of the chair with wider legs and rails is more excellent than that with narrower ones, and the durability of it with wider legs is better than that of it with wider rails. 2) The chair with mortise-and-tenon joints is far stronger than that with dovel joints. 3) The mortise-and-tenon joint with longer tenon is stronger than that with shorter but wider tenon when the glue area is equal. 4) According to the result, it can be found that the chair with ten or fifteen years of durability needs to endure the repeating impact loads of at least 7,000 or 12,000 times by F.T. method.

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バウハウスにおけるイッテンの予備課程は宣言にみられるグロピウスの基礎課程と同じではない。グロピウスの課程はただの手工作訓練であるが,イッテンのそれは,学生の創造力を解放し,自己の表現をめざす芸術教育である。イッテンの課程は,ヴィーンにおける絵画教室そのままであったが,初期バウハウスの創始状況のもとで予備課程となったのである。やがてグロピウスは宣言の理想を実現すべく一工房二人教員制を提案する。しかし,これは制度的にも内容的にも不備であったので,1925年に制度としては廃止されたが,内容的には基礎課程としてひきつがれることになった。・っまり,バウハウスの基礎課程はイッテンの予備課程を制度としてひきついでいるにすぎないのである。このような事実から,イッテンの予備課程の評価は,バウハウスの基礎課程の祖としても,デザイン教育の基礎課程の祖としてもきわめて限定されたものとなるのである。

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