About minä perhonen
minä perhonen is Akira Minagawa's Tokyo textile and clothing house. Its best-known motif, tambourine, is a ring of 25 embroidered dots that has moved from cloth onto tiles, cups, notebook covers and sofas.
This system takes the house's own surfaces as its rules: white pages, dark grey type, hairline rules and plenty of air. The embroidery carries the colour, and a single lemon button means "submit".
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Era
- 1995 founded as minä; tambourine a/w 2000–01; renamed minä perhonen 2003; current visual ~2015–2024
- Key figures
- Akira Minagawa
- Movements
- Slow design / clothes for a hundred years · Japanese craft textiles · Nordic–Japanese exchange
minä perhonen design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
EB GaramondHeadings
Noto Sans JPMono
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