This is “tagtype,” a keyboard designed explicitly for the Japanese language. A relic from 2004, now at MOMA indefinitely.

Japanese uses fifty syllabic characters that can be written on a matrix of ten consonants multiplied by five vowels. This is a Qwerty approach to that formula. It was also built for accessibility, in construction and use.

Designer: Kinya Tagawa.

https://www.takram.com/projects/tagtype-garage-kit

#Tagtype #Design #IndustrialDesign #Keyboard #Japan #Japanese #Technology #Computers #MoMA #A11y

Kacie Kinzer’s Tweenbots are small cardboard robots that roam the city helped by strangers. They have many wabi-sabi qualities and I make the case that empathy is one of them.
https://wabitronics.com/examples/tweenbots/

#wabisabi #electronics #robotics #itp #moma #empathy

Kacie Kinzer’s Tweenbots are small cardboard robots that roam the city helped by strangers. They have many wabi-sabi qualities and I make the case that empathy is one of them.
https://wabitronics.com/examples/tweenbots/

#wabisabi #electronics #robotics #itp #moma #empathy

The museum acquired one of the 23 saved capsules after the tower's deconstruction, now on view at the institution's street-facing Manhattan galleries for a full year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/11/art/nakagin-tower-moma/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #kishokurokawa #moma #nakagincapsuletower #exhibitions #architecture

The museum acquired one of the 23 saved capsules after the tower's deconstruction, now on view at the institution's street-facing Manhattan galleries for a full year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/11/art/nakagin-tower-moma/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #kishokurokawa #moma #nakagincapsuletower #exhibitions #architecture