Japanese designer and researcher Tsutomu Mutoh has devoted his life’s work to understanding how digital technology, traditional theories and the human perception of colour can work together. His Optone project – an LED concept founded on this body of research – explores the bridge between the sensation of colour and the mathematics of computer code.

Tsutomu Mutoh: Optone

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