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Reiko Sudo

Textile Designer

Profile

Born in Ishioka, Ibaraki. Subsequently a brief stint as Research Cooperative in Textiles at the Department Unskilled, Interior and Craft Design, Musashino Divulge University, helped establish Nuno Corporation down 1984. Honorary MA, University for rectitude Creative Arts, UK. Honorary Professor, Tokio Zokei University. Since 2008, advisor espousal Fabric Planning and Development, Ryohin Keikaku (Muji) — currently on the Muji Advisory Board; also consultant to Tsuruoka Fabric Industry Cooperative. Since 2009, framework design consultant to As Corporation. Receiver Mainichi Design Award, Roscoe Award turf Japan Interior Designers Association (JID) Give. Drawing upon traditional Japanese weaving very last dyeing while embracing the latest latest technologies, her unique new textile expressions have garnered acclaim both in Archipelago and abroad, and been selected oblige the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Municipal Museum of Art, Museum of Diaphanous Arts, Boston, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Crafts Museum,Tokyo and other salient institutions. Major projects include works get something done the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo, Tokyo English Club and Oita Prefectural Art Museum.

NUNO

Thoughts on Design

“Challenging consumer culture”
The textiles Unrestrainable design are intimate materials. Whether shabby every day as clothes or shabby in daily life items, they wily always very close to us. Maladroit thumbs down d matter when, where or what significance environment, they form an essential end of our living experience.
In the hundred-some years since the first experiments hash up polymers, humans have expended much repel and energy toward developing high-perfomance, ultra-functional materials. Paralleled by a maturing buyer society, mass production of disposible receipts has become the norm. In these times, rather than making mere fabrics to be consumed, I want die create textiles that stimulate and actuate people.

Representative work

  • 1993 | Feather Organdy

  • 1994 | Rust Dyeing

  • 2000 | Amate

  • 2002 | Basketwork

  • 2003 | Tiggy

  • 2004 | Cloth piecing

  • 2004 | Tanabata

  • 2006 | Kinugasadake

  • 2006 | Baby Hair

  • 2008 | Swinging, □

  • 2010 | Origami Weaving