Connections, towns, and mountains
We will connect.
Before I knew it, there were small plates nearby. Town address indications, facility signs, civil engineering structure overview displays, bridge and river names, factory machinery nameplates and cautionary notices, building names, shop signs, station signs, residential nameplates, hotel key chains, chest name tags, product logos, memorabilia and trophy notations, etc.
Letters, pictures, and patterns are engraved or printed on metal or acrylic planes, cut out into squares, circles, and other shapes, attached, placed, or worn. These plates play a supporting role, but they are a reliable and cute tool that makes it easier to understand, differentiates something, shows where to go, connects something with someone, and asserts itself a little.
About Toyama Plate
Toyama Plate, which manufactures plate picnics, has been producing nameplates since its founding. It all started with a camera store. Kamiichi Town was known as "Toyama's Medicine Seller" and the pharmaceutical industry was thriving. People who live away from their families for most of the year go on a trip with family photos, take pictures of the scenery on their travels, and take them home. Hoping that even a single photo could provide emotional support, I took photos, rented out cameras, sold them, and developed them. After that, it was decided to use photographic technology to make nameplates.
For many years, in Kamiichi Town, Toyama Prefecture, which is located at the foot of the Yamanami mountain range of the Tateyama mountain range, we have been pursuing this possibility by utilizing various technologies centered on the Toyama Plate factory, which has mainly made nameplates (plates) that are attached to machines. This is an initiative to create encounters with various people through a series of fun picnics, which in turn become human networks, which eventually become the daily towns of each person's lives, and to measure the pulse for the future.