The first Mac I bought for work was a Power Mac 8100 around 1994, when the OS was still called Kanji Talk. It was a high-end machine for professional use at the time, and I remember it costing over a million yen for what it was. This was to produce the print plates for printing in Illustrator and Photoshop, before we had yet started LOOPWHEELER. It was a huge investment for a company at the time, so I went to night school to learn basic operations, and it is still very useful today. Nowadays, I can get hundreds of times better performance than back then at half the price. My current machine is a MacBookPro. Loopwler's 25 years of work is recorded on an SSD that is not even 2TB. I've probably been with Mac for over 30 years.

The other is a Montblanc ballpoint pen and mechanical pencil. The ballpoint pen has served me well in important situations such as signing contracts as president of the company. I start by hand-drawing out my designs and ideas with a mechanical pencil or ballpoint pen on the back of a photocopy (paper no longer needed for photocopying or faxing). I love Montblanc's mechanical pencils because of the fact that they continue to produce pencils with a rotary lead release mechanism, which is rare nowadays, instead of a knock-off mechanism.

I was interviewed about these two everyday companions.

by Satoshi Suzuki