If Akio Aoki had his way, there would be one new word included in dictionaries across the globe: "Designart."
The Tokyo-based designer is one of a team of high-profile creators united in their desire to transcend the boundaries of all things art and design with this month's launch of the aptly-named new event Designart.
"In the global mainstream — as represented by events in Milan, Basel or Miami — design and art have become closely intertwined and their boundary is hard to pinpoint," says Aoki of Miru Design, a co-founder of Designart. "Instead of trying to fit them into different categories, we are thinking about how to let things full of beauty and possibility more easily permeate (lifestyles). We hope that the word 'designart' will eventually be introduced into the world's general vocabulary."