Ston provides you a healthy and mindful break, as an alternative to smoking and drinking. The device is named a breather, a reference to the unique mindful experience it provides. Although the structure is similar to an electronic cigarette, by adjusting the flow of air as well as other factors, you can experience something closer to a deep breath. This is a tool to change a harmful break from smoking cigarettes into a healthy one, mentally and physically.
Eisuke Tachikawa is the head of NOSIGNER, a design firm aiming to create a hopeful future. He has worked on many projects tackling social issues, like climate change mitigation and adaptation, renewable energy, disaster prevention, community revitalization, and more. He advocates “Evolutional Creativity,” which tells the essence of creativity from the natural phenomenon of biological evolution, and this aims to foster innovators in various sectors of industry, academia, and government. This approach won him the prestigious Shichihei Yamamoto Prize, the leading academic award in humanities. Aside from being the chairman of the Benesse Educational Research & Development Institute's "Future of Higher Education" group, Tachikawa is working to spread creative education. As a highly expressive designer of products, graphics, and architecture, he has won over 100 design awards in Japan and internationally, including the Good Design Gold Award, the Design for Asia Grand Award, and the German Design Gold Award. He was also a judge for the Good Design Awards, ACC Tokyo Creative Awards, Design for Asia Awards, and World Architecture Festival. In 2021, he became the youngest president of the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA), Japan's oldest national design organization. He contributed to holding the World Design Conference in Japan for the first time in 34 years. In 2023, he joined the board of directors for the World Design Organization (WDO), which is an advisory group for the United Nations.
NOSIGNER is a social design activist that drives social change towards a more hopeful future. The term NOSIGNER translates as professionals recognizing the "unseen", behind the form (NO-SIGN). The team think of design as a tool that enables people to form the best relations. Designers produce beautiful works, whereas NOSIGNER also brings out these "unseen" relations at the same time. The team look for clues within them that carry the possibilities for social change. The main goal is to design multidisciplinary strategies by seeking the highest quality within each design field such as architecture, product and graphic design. Throughout history, people have constantly evolved by creating. The design has become a powerful tool for those who desire change. NOSIGNER uses design as a gateway for those who hold the potential to change the future. This enables NOSIGNER team to explore possibilities of collaborations between like-minded people, it is able to explore the potentials for the future of humanity.