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This Week in Magazines

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  • The latest issue of PEN takes a look at a few art directors, with some nice profiles, and plenty of visuals to enjoy. PEN has really been coming out with some nice issues of late.
  • The new +81 (28) is the “Japanese Absolute Sense” issue, which is just an excuse to profile (with interviews) current Japanese designers, including favorites like Kenya Hara and Naoki Sato. They also include a look at 34 up-and-comers — one page for each, includes a short Q&A, and lots of images. A must-buy issue (and it’s bilingual).
  • As I moblogged a while back, the latest BRUTUS is their 25th anniversary issue, featuring a silver embossed cover. The issue itself is a bit of a disappointment, but the tour of past covers is nice.
  • The latest STUDIO VOICE is a must-buy for lovers of manga. They go through 200 current essentials, and it makes for a nice list. They give props to my man Noaki Urusawa, which makes me happy.
  • The current SWITCH has a big cover feature on Kyoko Koizumi. I’m not that familiar with her — I know she was a big idol back in the day — but I did like her role in the excellent SURVIVE STYLE 5+ film.
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Fashion Stores TB.Grafico

Seleqlo

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The outside display in front of Rocket Gallery during the Seleqlo shop/event. I went on the last day, and still found nothing but lameness.

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Boys Who Love Girls Who Love Boys

I’m girly.

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Music

Radio OK Fred Update

I moblogged last week about recording a new show, and the reason the show hasn’t been released yet is because it ends up that there was a problem with the recording, and so we’ll have to do it again. Looks like we’ll try to record early next week, and so hopefully the show will be uploaded soon after that.

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Architecture Events

Museums

Ken Domon Museum of PhotographySakata, Yamagata PrefectureCompleted: 1983Architect: Yoshio Taniguchi, Taniguchi and Associates© Toru Waki c/o Shokokusha Publishing Co., Ltd

THE JAPAN TIMES has a piece on the Yoshio Taniguchi exhibition, “Museums,” currently taking place at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.

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Design Events

100 Best Posters Exhibition

You know, I’m all about free exhibitions:

After being exhibited for one week at “Marucube” inside Maru Building, the “100 best posters” selected in a contest that has been held annually in Germany since 30 years, are gracing the fence surrounding the construction site of the Shin Maru Building (due to open in 2007). Since we’re talking about an established and important contest in the European design scene, all pieces on display come with a guarantee of top quality. Catch them while checking out what kind of construction is on the way in the quickly changing Marunouchi district at the moment, and witness an interesting contrast of Japanese architecture and German poster design. (REALTOKYO)

No hurry, as these will be up until October 31.

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Events Photography TB.Grafico

Studio Poco Exhibition

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A photography exhibition by Studio Poco in the room adjacent to the Lapnet Ship gallery in Harajuku.

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Metropolis Q&A

Last week I was interviewed by METROPOLIS (the Tokyo weekly, not the design/architecture magazine) for that Q&A column they always have in the front pages. It should appear towards the end of June. Having read TOKYO CLASSIFIEDS/METROPOLIS ever since I’ve been here, never missing an issue (except for weeks where I would have been away on holidays), it’s quite satisfying to have been approached like that. The last thing I would have ever imagined when I first arrived in Tokyo back in 1998 was that I would one day be mentioned in the local media.

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Fashion Stores Web

Threadless Sale

My favorite online tee shop, Threadless, has every tee on sale for $10 until June 6. Go, shop, enjoy! I’m probably going to pick up a few.

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Fashion Magazines

New at GENEVEtokyo

005.coverGENEVEtokyo has a new free paper out (5), as well as two new t-shirts (“Human” and “Melancholy”).