World’s First NFT Design Manifesto

Masaki Iwabuchi
Predict
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2 min readJan 13, 2023

As a designer, I’ve launched a new personal project named “Design Manifesto” as a kickstart in 2023.

This project is the world’s first experimentation to issue a personal design manifesto as NFT. I’ve organized my notion of the word “Design” in this century and minted the initial five NFTs on OpenSea.
Each piece crystalizes my design processes, personal philosophy, and subjective knowledge from my practices. However, I also made them open, collectible, and tradable as an NFT.

https://opensea.io/collection/design-manifesto

Designers share beautiful outputs on Dribbble, but every designer has their own creative design process and methodology behind it. So how can designers share this beautiful thinking, creativity, and philosophy?

How can designers share beautiful thinking, creativity, and philosophy rather than just outputs?

Designers can share this practical knowledge on Medium, LinkedIn, and various SNSs. But designers in the industry don’t have enough time to write texts, papers, and books. So what if we could exchange, collect, and discuss such valuable wisdom more casually through NFTs?

What if we could exchange, collect, and discuss designers’ wisdom rather than reading texts?

My vision is to cultivate the community to share the designer’s own manifesto and innovate creative design processes in an open and decentralized way. Please feel free to contact me if you’re interested!

Design Manifesto on OpenSea
https://opensea.io/collection/design-manifesto

Masaki Iwabuchi, Strategic Design Futurist
https://masaki.vision/

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Masaki Iwabuchi
Predict

Strategic Design Futurist | Lead Design Strategist @JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Visiting Associate Professor at Tohoku Univ. | Organizer @Speculative Futures TOKYO