Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe by Takafumi Miki and Tomoki Mitsuhashi

Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe by Takafumi Miki and Tomoki Mitsuhashi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Kiʻi, Kiʻi Paʻi a me Kamaʻilio ʻIke Competition Category.

KeleaweKiʻi· 2020

Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe

by Takafumi Miki and Tomoki Mitsuhashi

Client: Arch-Able

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Kiʻi Category

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The Design

About Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe

ʻO Arch-able kekahi kekāhi hua kikohoʻe i hoʻolālāʻia no ka hana ʻikepili kikohoʻe. Kākoʻo kēia hua kikohoʻe i ka paepae Arch-able, ka mea e mālama a hoʻolaha ai i nā ʻikepili kikohoʻe o nā hoʻolālā a nā mea kālai hale. Aia i loko o ka pūʻulu huaʻōlelo he 26 huapalapala, 10 helu, a me 26 hōʻailona. Ua poepoeʻia nā kihi āpau, no laila hiki i nā ʻāwili wili, nā ʻoki kukui a me nā mea hana ʻē aʻe ke hōʻea a hahai i kēlā me kēia kihi. He nui nā hua kikohoʻe stencil e loaʻa ana nā kihi kihi kūpono ʻaʻole hiki ke kālaiʻia. Wehe ʻo Arch-able i kēlā palena a kōkua i nā mea hoʻomaka e hana i nā huapalapala ʻekolu-ʻāpana me nā mea hana maʻamau.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Arch-able Kekāhi Hua Kikohoʻe i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: ARCH-ABLE is a platform to archive and distribute digital data of architects’ designs. Anyone can download and reproduce architects’ designs as long as they are following the creative commons license.
This typeface is digital fabrication friendly because it has stencil style shapes and all corners are rounded for all drill bits, laser cutter, and other tools.
It makes all users comfortable to reproduce their products easier.
Dimensions & Packaging: 26 letters, 10 numbers, and 26 symbols
Tags: Typeface, Typography, DigitalFabrication, GeometricDesign, Simple, Idea,GraphicDesign, Future, Friendly, Japan
Production Technology: People had a problem about making 3D typography because it must have stencil style. And some stencil typefaces couldn’t engrave all corners even inside or outside because they have right angle corners.
So ARCH-ABLE typeface solved all issues for making 3D typography because it has stencil style shapes and all corners are rounded especially for all drill bits.
Design Challenge: This typeface structure has very strict rules. It was really hard to make all the characters. It should be all rounded, 45 degrees, geometric, 4x6, stencil style, and stylish. So we have to make it conceptual but keep it beautiful typeface as well. It was a very important thing.
Research: One day I had a chat with one of my friend who is an architect in Japan. He told me that Almost times I couldn’t engrave the corners of typefaces because they have right angle corners. That was the starting point.
We started to search so many stencil style typefaces all over the world through internet. Then we figured out we have to make all rounded corners typeface for all digital fabrication creators.
Inspiration: Nowadays Digital fabrication DIY culture is a boom in Japan. Almost users can use digital fabrication tools but they can’t make original stencil typeface for it. This typeface is digital fabrication friendly and beginner-friendly as well.
Project Duration: This project term was from November 2018 to January 2020 in Tokyo, JAPAN.
Operation Flow: People had a problem about making 3D typography because it must have stencil style. And some stencil typefaces couldn’t engrave all corners even inside or outside because they have right angle corners.
So this typeface is digital fabrication friendly because it has stencil style shapes and all corners are rounded for all drill bits, laser cutter and other tools. It means all drill bit can reach and fit all rounded corners.
It makes all users comfortable to make their products easier.
Patents: Copyrights belong to BANANA inc., 2020
Team Members: Art Director: Miki Takafumi
Designer: Miki Takafumi
Designer: Tomoki Mitsuhashi
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Kyoko Munakata, ARCH-ABLE, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Kyoko Munakata, ARCH-ABLE, 2020.