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Month: October 2006

  • Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006

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    Shift Blog has a post up on the upcoming “Digital Art Festival Tokyo 2006” (in December), which has certainly piqued my interest for the event.

  • QP Exhibition Report

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    Street artist QP had an exhibition at The Ghetto, and Patrick reports on the show (with pictures).

  • Marti Guixe at TRICO Gallery

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    This sounds like a terrific show, and I’m definitely going to try and make it to the reception party. TRICO who celebrated its 10th anniversary this year will be holding an exhibition for the Spanish prodigy Marti Guixe. Though he may not yet be well known here in Japan, Marti Guixe is a highly renowned…

  • Tokyo Fun Party Wants You

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    Big news from Digiki today, including word of the new Tokyo Fun Party label (the first two releases will be from Digiki and Chimidoro), of which Digiki is the A&R guy, and he’s already on the lookout for new sounds! The post also talks about some new projects he has in mind — get this…

  • Karl Escritt Exhibition at Cafe Pause

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    Kyoto-based graphic designer Karl Escritt‘s exhibition is now on at Cafe Pause, until October 22. I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of pics I took yesterday at the cafe. He also has postcards for sale, as well A4 and A3-sized prints (200 yen, 700 yen, and 1000 yen respectively). Update: The designer who created the bags…

  • Burton TYO

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    Burton just opened their first store in Japan — in Harajuku of course — and people who attended the opening received the tee and sticker pictured above. Link via Josh Spear.

  • 21_21 Pre-Opening Events

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    21_21 will be holding some pre-opening events in November. More info in this latest post (link goes to the front page — I really do wish they would include links to the permanent archive link).

  • PechaKucha + The New Mix

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    This Wednesday (October 18), SuperDeluxe will be hosting a special PechaKucha Night event to help launch a new book from KDa — that they produced and edited — JAPAN: THE NEW MIX, featuring 21 architects and interior designers currently working in Japan. Presenters will include Masaaki Takahashi (author), Koichi Suzuno + Shinya Kamuro (Torafu architects),…

  • Wearing Graniph

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    I decided to treat myself to two new Graniph tees today, which you can see pictured above. The “Helvetica” one is probably the most classic Graniph tee there is, but I never had one, and figured I was due (also, it had pretty much disappeared from the shops for a while). Graniph recently renewed their…

  • OK Fred 8

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    The new issue of OK FRED (8) is out — featuring the dueling covers pictured above — with the theme “Knowledge Is Ours.” As always, you can order the magazine directly from their website. As for my contributions this time, my regular column is out (we’re trying to figure out a new one), but I…