Arikata is a Tokyo-based jewellery studio working at the intersection of code and craft. The name comes from the Japanese word 在り方 (arikata), meaning one’s way of being—an orientation rather than a prescription. Arikata’s practice centres on titanium for its lightness, durability and skin-friendliness, translating computational geometries into wearables through 3D printing, careful hand finishing, and anodised colour gradients that arise from the metal itself. Minimal silhouettes, structural spirals and internal hollows invite touch and catch light, turning jewellery into a quiet daily prompt.

Founded alongside an ongoing corporate career, Arikata treats jewellery as a portable reminder to live each day with quiet excitement. The studio’s pieces often offer dual-wear formats (e.g. ring/ear cuff) and seasonal colourways that suggest gradual growth over time. In London’s Code & Craft (Encoded Bodies), 28–30 November 2025, Arikata will exhibit Circle of Seasons (Meguru), a titanium work that embodies these ideas through spiral form and interference colour.

I make titanium jewellery at the intersection of computational form and everyday habit. Code lets me draw structures that are hard to realise by hand—spirals that hold light, hollows that breathe, lines that seem to move even when the body is still. Craft slows the work down: surfaces are refined by hand, and colour appears through anodisation, where a controlled oxide film refracts light into gradients. The colour is not paint; it is the metal itself—an image of change held within matter.

The studio name, Arikata, comes from the Japanese word 在り方, meaning one’s way of being. I use it in a non-prescriptive sense: not how one should be, but the orientation each person chooses. While continuing my corporate work, I founded Arikata to make that orientation tangible—jewellery as a portable reminder to live with a quiet sense of excitement each day.

Titanium suits this purpose: lightweight, durable, and typically friendly to sensitive skin, it disappears until the moment you notice a gradient shift or a fingertip finds a curve. That pause is the material I’m really shaping—a brief return to your chosen way of being. At Code & Craft in London (28–30 November 2025), I will present Circle of Seasons (Meguru), which translates subtle seasonal change into spiral form and cobalt-to-sky colour, suggesting that time does not simply repeat—it gathers.

Circle of Seasons (Meguru 巡る)

Circle of Seasons (Meguru) is a titanium piece designed for dual wear—as a ring or as an ear cuff. Four twisting lines spiral to form the body, evoking the four seasons in Japan and the sensation that time both circles and advances. The geometry is 3D-printed to achieve precise hollows and structural lightness, then hand-finished and anodised to create a vivid color. Because the colour arises from the titanium itself, the surface remains clean and is typically comfortable for sensitive skin.

The work addresses a familiar feeling: many of us move through weeks that look similar from the outside. It can seem as if nothing is changing. Yet, like the seasons, change is present even when it is subtle. Layers of effort accumulate; direction persists. The spiral form holds this idea—not a closed loop, but a circle with lift—and the gradient records a gentle shift from depth to light.

Worn on the hand or ear, Meguru adapts to mood and context. The gesture is minimal, but the interior space invites touch; light pools in the hollows and moves with the body. The piece serves as a portable reminder that time does not merely repeat—it gathers—and that steady orientation can turn small, daily motions into growth.

Materials & Process: Titanium; 3D printing; hand finishing; anodised interference colour

Brand concept

How do you want to be?

It's not what you want to be, but how you want to live.

What do you want to feel while living?

Think about how you want to be, and work towards that.

We believe that is what matters in order to have a fulfilling life.

However, that isn't something that someone teaches us, but something we must think and do for ourselves.

So it's not easy to pursue this ideal way to be. We think there are many setbacks.

At these times if you can remember why you wanted to be that way, can't you take another step in the right direction?

By putting that feeling into accessories and wearing them, you can always be reminded of your determination.

We strive to make pieces with the goal of accessories that can project thoughts.