I took a design studio with Japanese landscape architect Toru Mitani. He took us all on a 10 day trip to Tokyo. I was so enchanted with the manhole covers in that city that I designed one for my own studio project and, for the final review, printed its plan at 1:1 and I photoshopped my foot in for scale too. Thanks for sharing the drawings by Joji Hayashi, they're great.
Hi James, thanks for sharing your experience, so cool. If you have a portfolio or some images of it I'd be curious to see them!
Manholes are sick, I love them!
I am using this post also to promote an amazing book just published by the italian Lettera Ventidue, it is called "Tombini d'Italia" and tells the story of the manhole as an object and its development through some italian tombinis: https://www.letteraventidue.com/it/prodotto/556/tombini-ditalia
I took a design studio with Japanese landscape architect Toru Mitani. He took us all on a 10 day trip to Tokyo. I was so enchanted with the manhole covers in that city that I designed one for my own studio project and, for the final review, printed its plan at 1:1 and I photoshopped my foot in for scale too. Thanks for sharing the drawings by Joji Hayashi, they're great.
Hi James, thanks for sharing your experience, so cool. If you have a portfolio or some images of it I'd be curious to see them!
Manholes are sick, I love them!
I am using this post also to promote an amazing book just published by the italian Lettera Ventidue, it is called "Tombini d'Italia" and tells the story of the manhole as an object and its development through some italian tombinis: https://www.letteraventidue.com/it/prodotto/556/tombini-ditalia
Appreciate the reply!
I'm always a little nervous showing school stuff I did years ago (lol), but here's a slice of the boards I did that shows the cover. Believe I was going for something like a fish scale texture. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CpMSAAUrHLSh_j5QsabSipgqcY9OuIKE/view?usp=sharing