• Looking into the future: Gwenael Nicolas, Tokyo Designers Week's first 'show designer,' holds up one of the event's new annual awards, explaining, 'This is like the Earth. It's an image of what I want the TDW show to be from now on. It is balanced, pure and simple. It is what design should be about.' | DANIELLE DEMETRIOU PHOTO
    Looking into the future: Gwenael Nicolas, Tokyo Designers Week's first "show designer," holds up one of the event's new annual awards, explaining, "This is like the Earth. It's an image of what I want the TDW show to be from now on. It is balanced, pure and simple. It is what design should be about." | DANIELLE DEMETRIOU PHOTO
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Forget green. Once the only color on the creative minds of the world — from fashion and product design to architecture and packaging — its dominance may soon be usurped.

Today, Tokyo Designers Week, one of the biggest events in the capital’s creative calendar, kicks off with promises of not only a bigger, better fair but also a focus on an altogether different part of the spectrum: blue.

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