When most product designers cite the inspirations for their work, they mention a Bauhaus hero or two, maybe a Bauhaus heroine. Shin and Tomoko Azumi cite those too: Oscar Schlemmer for Shin and László Moholy-Nagy for Tomoko. Yet their influences also range from the female contortionist cast as Puck in the Canadian theatre director, Robert Lepage’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to the methodical manner with which the hero of Night Train, one of Masayuki Izumi’s Japanese comic books, plans the process of eating the contents of his bento box on an overnight train.
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