Category: Design

Interviews with designers and design studios exploring conceptual approaches, visual identity, and spatial design practices. From graphic design to interior design and product design, discover creative processes that connect conceptual thinking with material expression. Stories from designers working across Europe and beyond, shared through Repose Archive.

Isamu Hazama, making as a way of learning

Isamu lives and works in a small mountain village in Japan, creating objects, books, and other works from materials found close at hand. Rather than working within a fixed medium, he responds to materials as they appear through the seasons — much like a farmer responding to the land. In our conversation, he shared how making became a way of learning, and how the memories, knowledge, and wisdom embedded in local materials shape everything he creates.

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