Materials of MTRL are not just physical. They are physical materials (traditional and new), human materials (creators and academics), corporate materials (providing new technologies and traditional materials), and general materials (founder of MTRL). The identity symbolizes such diversity to gather, affect each other, produce synergy, and keep transforming. Transforming combinations icons the dynamics stimulating people’s creativity, and the innovations and businesses co-created.

Hiromi Maeo enjoy working with corporate clients who have a clear vision and goals as well as a passion to innovate. Usually, the project goes very smoothly if they do. He particularly enjoy working on projects with clients who have their eye on the international market beyond Japan.

Everything is made from materials. While fab has generalized and digitized things, services sprout everyday, in Japan still exists amazing traditional materials and techniques. (Laqcuerware, textile, canvas, wood, synthetic plastic, chip, sensors, etc.) New or old, tangible or not, taking anything as material, mtrl Kyoto & fab cafe mtrl in Tokyo are creative lounges debuted in December 2015. Here materials meet new technologies and creatives. New trends arise with creators, academics and companies collaborating.