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Month: September 2006

  • 21_21 at the Combini

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    The latest piece up on the 21_21 site follows Issey Miyake and Taku Satoh on a trip to a combini.

  • Uniqlo Creative Award 2007

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    The Shift blog has all the details regarding the new “Uniqlo Creative Award 2007” competition.

  • Evolution of Rezidents

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    More from Sonia and her Rezident prototypes. And a bit of good news for her, since she’s been invited to join the Designboom Mart at 100% Design Tokyo.

  • The New Tokion Japan

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    Marxy takes us on a fascinating tour of the history of TOKION (both Japan and US editions), and shares thoughts on the just-launched renewal of TOKION JAPAN.

  • A DIVVY/dual Report

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    The TABlog has a write-up of the TAB-produced, and just-opened, “DIVVY/dual” exhibition.

  • INFAS Vending Machine

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    I mentioned the “INFAS Magazine Festa” in my Atmosphere news round-up post yesterday, and here’s an image of what the human vending machine, located in Shibuya, looks like (from Core77). Update (16/10/16): The image is no longer available.

  • Big Mac Tag

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    Core77 reports that “in Japan, McDonald’s is tagging food packaging with QRCodes, so that appropriately-enabled camera phones can pull up nutritional info on the spot.”

  • Half-Life 2 Arcade

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    I recently discovered the absolute playing nirvana that is HALF-LIFE 2 — I played through and finished the Xbox version on my Xbox 360 — and it has become one of my all-time favorite games (I can’t wait to play episodes 1 and 2 on the 360 when they come out early next year), and…

  • Joseph Badtke-Berkow

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    Writer Joseph Badtke-Berkow covers the arts and Tokyo (and has contributed extensively to PAPER SKY), and he has a rather nice (I love the pared down design) site with some of his work. This makes me think that I should also create a section of my site to present some of my professional writing, as…

  • Chiho Aoshima in the Tube

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    Wouldn’t it be nice if Tokyo subway stations had this sort of imagery? Pictured here are posters of Chiho Aoshima‘s work at Gloucester Road station in London. Via Treacle Down. Update: View the entire platform here.