01 / GEOMETRY
A system before a shape
We start with a rule — a ratio, a fold, a recurrence — and let the shape follow. The geometry is the discipline; the surprise is what falls out of it.
Studio · Tokyo · Est. 2014
A practice at the seam of geometry, paper, and perception.
Jun Fujiki Studio is a Tokyo-based generative art practice working at the intersection of folded paper, computational geometry, and visual perception. We build systems that draw, fold, and reflect.
Series 04 / "Tsuru Variations"
Washi, plotter ink · 2023
The Studio
From a desk in Sumida to commissions across three continents.
Jun Fujiki began working with folded paper as an architecture student in Tokyo, drawn to the way a single crease could reorganize an entire surface. A move into computational tools in 2012 opened a second line of inquiry: what if a rule — a single geometric rule — could generate thousands of variations, each quietly different from the next?
"A fold is a small piece of mathematics. A grid is a quiet argument. We just try to make them visible."
The studio was formalized in 2014 around three commitments: to make work that is hand-finished even when it begins as code, to publish the systems behind the prints, and to treat every commission as a small piece of research. A decade on, the work lives in private collections in Kyoto, Basel, and Brooklyn, and on the walls of a few public buildings we are quietly proud of.
Signed editions, written system notes, and an open studio day every spring.
Design Philosophy
Three rules we keep returning to.
02 / PAPER
Material that remembers
Washi, kozo, and machine-laid cotton carry the gesture of a hand and the patience of a fiber. We plot onto them, fold them, and let the crease outlive the ink.
03 / PERCEPTION
The viewer finishes it
Our work is built to be looked at slowly. Negative space, repetition, and small imperfections are not decoration — they are how the eye enters.
By the Numbers
A decade of measured making.
142+
Original worksEditions, unique pieces, and large-scale commissions shipped from the Tokyo studio.
11
Solo exhibitionsAcross Tokyo, Kyoto, Berlin, and New York, including a 2023 retrospective at the 3331 Arts Chiyoda.
37
Public commissionsCivic, hospitality, and cultural projects — from a Ginza hotel lobby to a Basel research library.
9.2k
Open-source linesGenerative systems, plotter drivers, and folding simulators published on the studio journal.
On minimal Japanese precision
We are not interested in the spectacle of the algorithm. We are interested in what survives it — the grain of the paper, the slight tilt of a fold, the silence a good grid leaves behind.
— Jun Fujiki, from a 2022 lecture at Tama Art University
How a Work Is Made
From a rule on paper to a finished piece on a wall.
01
Define the rule
We begin with a constraint — a 1.618 ratio, a 22.5° rotation, a single allowed fold direction — and explore it on paper before any code is written.
02
Generate, then curate
The system is allowed to produce hundreds or thousands of candidates. We select by hand, keeping roughly one in two hundred, and reject the rest without regret.
03
Plot, fold, finish
Selected pieces are plotted onto washi or cotton, hand-folded where required, signed, and numbered. The studio's three plotters run most days; the studio's two presses, never.
The People
A small studio, by design.
Jun Fujiki
Founder · Principal Artist
Sets the studio's direction and writes the generative systems. Trained in architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Mio Kuramoto
Studio Director
Keeps the studio on schedule and the editions numbered. Background in print production and curatorial work at SCAI The Bathhouse.
Ren Hoshino
Computational Lead
Translates the studio's hand-drawn rules into plotter-ready code. Maintains the open-source toolchain on the studio's journal.
Aki Sato
Paper & Folding Specialist
Sources the studio's washi from Mino and Echizen, and finishes every folded piece by hand. Trains with a third-generation paper master in Gifu.
Instruments
The tools we keep close.
Pen plotter
TypeScript
Origami
Compass
Ruling pen
Bone folder
Visit the Studio
Open studio days, twice a year.
The studio in Sumida opens to a small group of visitors each spring and autumn — plotter running, walls unedited, conversation encouraged. Limited seats; sign up via the studio page.
- Twelve seats per open day, no recording, no resale.
- Hand-finished sample pieces available to take home.
- Open to collectors, curators, and the simply curious.