About us

About PEBLWEAR

PEBLWEAR is a creative brand by product artist who love outdoor, interior design, and music, which started its activities through crowdfunding on Kickstarter in 2021. We create products that are not only functional, but responsive through design, engineering and technology.

Our Mission:
Accelerate the challenges and creativity of active people with minimalist products that enhance the comfort of precious moments.

Located in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan, we handle everything from development and design to material selection, production, and delivery. And we strive for environmentally friendly products.

PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote, received the award from its uniqueness of the idea and implementation to the product.

What’s new

2024
New Product launched on Kickstarter. PEBLWEAR TN1
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New Product launched on Kickstarter. PEBLWEAR FLAME | Portable Lantern
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2023. Summer
Hands on booth at GOOUT JAMBOREE, FIELD STYLE JAPAN 2023, RINGO MUSIC FESTIVAL

2023. SPRING
Showcase at Good Design for a New Life Exhibition (GOOD DESIGN Tokyo Marunouchi)

2023. Winter
Case study session at HP Digital Manufacturing Summit 2023, Yamagata University Digital Manufacturing Network Project

2022.10
PEBLWEAR received GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2022 (Press Release)
“Awarded by the uniqueness of the idea and implementation to the product, which realizes intuitive music control, even trough textiles.”

Media coverage on AXIS Design Magazine

2022.9
Media coverage on Copa Airlines Panorama de Las Americas magazine

2022.7  
Media coverages on GoodsPress(JP) | @DIME(JP) | Techable(JP)

2022.4
Kickstarter rewards shipment started

2021.8
Funded on Kickstarter

History

2024

PEBLWEAR FLAME have successfully funded on Kickstarter

2023

Released PEBLWEAR FLAME

2022

Awarded GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2022
Started to ship out PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote

2021

Successfully funded the PEBLWEAR at Kickstarter

2018

Started prototyping of PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote

Built | Earth friendly

Living in the great nature of Nagano, Japan, I care about keeping the earth clean and sustainable while building the product. The production process is designed to ensure proper quantity production with care about where we create, what material we use, and cares about how this product is made. This approach allows to create the product with a care and attention to detail as a craftsman. 

And the entire story comes to your hand, as a very unique product.

Photograph @Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan where PEBLWEAR located

Made in Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

The structural components are designed with a focus on minimizing environmental impact. We carefully select production materials with the lowest possible environmental impact. And all exterior parts have zero cosmetic painting and are manufactured by an experienced solution provider in Japan. In addition, HP’s industrial 3D printing solution ensures a high level of material reuse during the manufacturing process.

Our facility is powered by 100% solar energy from assembly to packing, thanks to the sunniest area in Japan. I use my in-house micro-manufacturing process (very close to handcrafting!) for production assembly to ensure reliable care of what we produce. Packed minimally, to reduce any materials used and to reduce logistics impact.

Structure part is also designed to be low environmental impact. We choose HP Jet fusion 3D printing without any cosmetic painting, manufactured by experienced solution provider in Japan, which is hugely earth friendly than commonly used manufacturing process.

Quality parts produced by most experienced industrial 3D printing manufacture SOLIZE.High material reusability by HP industrial 3D printing solution.

PEBLWEAR | About creator

Yuhei Akatsuka

GOOD DESIGN Award 2022 winner
Owner of PEBLWEAR

Personally launched PEBLWEAR is an award-winning product brand, based in Nagano, Japan.

In 2021, the first product on Kickstarter, “PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote” was successfully launched and shipped worldwide. The product was awarded the GOOD DESIGN Award, the top design award in Japan and one of the four greatest design awards in the world, aimed at enriching our lives and society through design. 

As PEBLWEAR, Yuhei Akatsuka, formerly project lead of SONY, strategic product planning lead of Epson, is putting full creativity from the development to communication and distribution.

Experiences
Career in digital device manufacturer based in Japan from 2002. Experience in product engineering, to product planning, strategy, and new project development. Strength in user interface design and engineering.

Inspired from passed works related to touch interface and sound solution development at SONY, I have started to experiment my original project from 2018, looking for the new possibility of music experience, which is my daily excitement.

Personally fell in love with mountain biking and snowboarding, resulted moving from Tokyo to Nagano, where 1997 winter olympic have held. Enjoying stunning nature and activity’s.

WORKS

PEBLWEAR FLAME
Original Product
PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote
Original Product
EPSON / Laser Projector
Product Strategy & Planning
SONY / VAIO Mouse
Project Leader / Mechanical Design
SONY / VAIO Mouse
Project Leader / Mechanical Design
SII / e-Dictionary
Project Leader / Mechanical Design

Epson EpiqVision Ultra and Mini Solutions
https://news.epson.com/news/epiqvision-ultra-mini-laser-projectors

Classrooms with Epson Education Display Solutions
https://news.epson.com/news/education-laser-display-solutions

and more…

Special Thanks to

PEBLWEAR Wearable Remote Project
Adam Rendell | Mirco Bölke | K Sharif | Paul Mintz | Chris Forsythe | Abel Garcia | FIAN RICHMOND FREDERIC | Tomo. Morikawa | Braulio Fernandez | Rick Weaver | Martin Eskdale Moen | Miyuki Fukuda | Justin Bandt | Shadow J. Billingsley | FRITSCH Laurent | Martijn Willemse | Rui amorim | Jason Beaton | Thomas Froehlich | Guido Castro | Javier Rivera | Alexander I Jarman | Paul Gordon | VAN-DRIESSCHE Julian | Lukas Mühl | Taiki Yamamoto | The Creative Fund by BackerKit | Kris Yen | Der Fabi | Silvio Plasmati | Adam Edwards

for supporting PEBLWEAR on our first funded Kickstarter campaign

PEBLWEAR FLAME Project
Tomo. Morikawa | Martin Eskdale Moen | Martijn Willemse | Tom Xu | Marcus Purkiss | Martijn Willemse | Hampus Lind | Bhurut Harish | Martin Čepelík | Leonard Shaw | Kalina Dey | Yoshihiro Watanabe | Yuta Suka | Masatoshi Akatsuka

for supporting PEBLWEAR FLAME on our funding at Kickstarter


Contact

If you have any request, questions, contact available through e-mail: hello [at] peblwear.com

PEBLWEAR

Designed and made in Matsumoto
Nagano, Japan