EMU

About EMU - EMU (Toshihiro Umekita) runs a small shipbuilding company along the Seto Inland Sea. Influenced by his grandfather and father, both shipbuilders, he has been interested in construction since he was a child. His father taught him his techniques on his days off, and he enjoyed making his own furniture, figurines, and toys. Later, after learning the fundamentals of design at a vocational school, he had a 20-year career as a graphic designer in Tokyo. In 2016, he transformed one of his rooms into a workshop and began creating the Blackboard Kokeshi EMU, a piece created by mixing woodworking techniques and graphic design…