Secret Source of Inspiration: Designers’ Hidden Sketches and Mockups

21_21 Design Sight, a sleek Roppongi venue dedicated to contemporary design, is offering a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the working processes of some of Japan’s foremost practitioners of industrial design, architecture, interactive development and more. All 26 current members of the Japan Design Committee (established in 1953) have shared work-in-progress sketches, drawings and mockups to form an exhibition that reveals the essence of creativity. Highlights include sketches by starchitect Kengo Kuma showing the seeds of ideas for some of his current projects, and prototypes by Fumie Shibata, known for her work for Muji and the Nine Hours capsule hotel chain.