ロボットモチーフアクセサリー

Lovely and cut accessories lile sweet treats in the motif of a robot. Each and every accessory is made by myself, Jun Tanaka,in the studio of Massanovaart

from design to final production. I make robots that you can enjoy in everyday life.

スイーツのように美しく可愛らしいデザインのロボットモチーフのアクセサリー。デザインから製作までマサノヴァアートの工房でひとつひとつ仕上げています。日常で楽しめるロボットです。 — ・・・made in japan Hirakata Osaka・・・

My father’s company, Toyo Electronic Factory, Co. Ltd., in Higashi-Osaka City of Osaka, was engaged in producing and delivering electronic parts, so that in my childhood I used to play with them.
Later, I grew up to enroll in Kyoto College of Art (now integrated into and renamed as Kyoto University of Art and Design). I majored in ceramic arts and studied arts and crafts as well as electronics.
After graduation, I joined the company, and soon found a brilliant potential in the ready-made industrial parts to create an extraordinary value. In 1993, enchanted with these burgeons, I made renovation of company and launched the craftsman’s label “Massanova Art(TM)” as the company’s flagship brand, a business that is set to rework various industrial ready-mades and to repurpose them for a robot-like toy, craft, and accessories.

MASSANOVAART has held exhibitions in galleries and shops, and led numerous workshops/ lectures throughout Japan. It also specializes in collaborating with clients in developing a product line and elaborating the original robot-like miniatures from ready-mades for industry. All the miniatures are crafted by hand in detail through OUR OWN HIGH-PRECISION PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY.

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アートギャラリー北野　マサノヴァアート個展

［Pen軸Robot展 2nd］

個展を中止させていただきます。

(京都府、京都市から阪神圏自粛要請／４月2日）

京都三条河原町　4月15日～4月20日／中止

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MASSANOVAART

Since 1994

1994年に大阪府東大阪市の町工場で誕生しました。

電子機器を扱う仕事をする中で

工業製品部品のデザインの良さに気づき

これらのもので何か出来ないかと考えたのが始まりです。

いつも身近にどこでもお出かけできる

小さなロボットモチーフのアクセサリー

デザインから加工・製作まで一つひとつ丁寧に作り上げています。

MASSANOVAART / JUN TANAKA

The starting point for Japanese monozukuri (manufacturing culture) is, without a doubt, its wide variety of industrial components. Here, these different parts—screws, nuts and the like—have been brought together and transformed into accessories based on an adorable robot motif. High-precision processing techniques refined in the domain of electronic device manufacture have been put to use in handcrafting these 2cm-tall robots, which exploit the special characteristics of various materials including stainless steel, iron and glass. The parts that these robots are built out of are homogenous and inorganic-looking at first glance; yet a closer look reveals a mosaic of individuality, with each robot having a subtly different expression. With their wry humor and cheery playfulness, these little works of art are sure to raise a smile from anyone seeing them. With so many different types on offer, just choosing your favorite is an enjoyable task. A close look at the robots may perhaps reveal one of the components that we use in our everyday lives, repurposed here in some unexpected way. Perhaps the out-of-the-box thinking embodied in these toys will provide some hints or ideas for those who are seeking some inspiration of their own.

日本のモノづくりの原点ともいえる工業製品部品の数々。そのネジやナットといったパーツたちが集まって、愛らしいロボットモチーフのアクセサリーになりました。電子機器製造業として培った精密加工技術を駆使し、ステンレスや鉄、ガラスといった素材の特徴を生かしてハンドメイドでつくられた体長2cmほどのロボットたち。　一見、均一的で無機質に感じられるパーツの集合体ですが、実は一つひとつ表情が異なる個性的な面々。とぼけた表情やにっこりした表情など、眺めているだけでこちらまで笑顔にしてくれそうです。種類も多く、選ぶ楽しさも味わえます。よく見ると、意外なところに身近なパーツが使われているのを発見するかも。アイデアに詰まったときには、発想の転換のヒントにもなりそうです。/ Wonder 500

Electronic Parts Robot motif

Precisely-processed accessories with a miniature robot motif made of the parts of engineering products.

Designed using the characteristics of familiar parts such as audio jacks.

Each of the approximately 20 tiny parts is carefully assembled using precise processing techniques, such as a technique that can drill holes as small as 0.5 mm in diameter.

工業製品部品を精密加工した小さなロボットモチーフのアクセサリー

オーディオジャックなど身近な部品デザインの特徴を活かしデザイン

約20個程の小さな部品をひとつひとつ丁寧に組み上げ、最小0.5ミリの穴あけ加工など精密に加工しています。

PenBlank Robot motif

I have been making this product since I discovered and was amazed at the attractiveness of the materials of a pen holder (pen blanks) used for making fountain pens while I was manufacturing a variety of works with a robot motif using any material I could find.

Accessories with a robot motif by processing made of acrylic resin. Each work is made by hand from design through final production. All accessories are one of a kind.

The robots are manufactured by processing the materials of a pen holder (pen blanks) used for making fountain pens and ballpoint pens. I carefully cut and polish pen blank materials and assemble each part into a robot。.