Month: February 2007
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Recycling Uniqlo
Uniqlo gets a conscience. Shoppers at the popular Uniqlo clothing chain will soon be able to drop off their used Uniqlo-brand clothes to be shipped to refugee camps or reprocessed for industrial use. Read the entire THE JAPAN TIMES article here.
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Automated PechaKucha Night Presentations
Quick, you have a presentation at PechaKucha Night and haven’t had time to prepare. What to do? Oh, just head over to Delicious.salted.com, which will create a PKN-formatted (20 slides) presentation from your last twenty Del.ico.us bookmarks.
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Shigeru Ban Interview
You’ll find a video interview on YouTube done by Designboom with architect Shigeru Ban.
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Nagi Noda + Osamu Tezuka Collaboration T-Shirt at Uniqlo
I stopped by the Uniqlo flagship store in Ginza yesterday — the one designed by KDa — and picked up the t-shirt you see pictured above for my wife (they only have them for women), a collaboration tee between Nagi Noda and Osamu Tezuka. It’s a page from Tezuka’s PRINCESS KNIGHT (RIBBON NO KISHI) manga,…
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Encadreurs
PingMag considers fashion in their latest piece. “Tani Ryouna and Maya Ishii (both slaving at Comme des Garcons in Paris for years) recently started their fashion label ENCADREURS in Tokyo with the idea to collaborate with a different artist every season.”
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Monocle, Finally
First thing this morning I went to the Junkudo bookstore in Ikebukuro, and was very happy to find 2 stacks of copies of the first issue of MONOCLE in the foreign magazines section. They even had them on one of the top shelves, with a small info card next to them, which they don’t usually…
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The Rise of Nonaca
I’ve been a big supporter of the Nakaochiai Gallery — it’s great to see what Julia has done since launching it — and here’s an update and some big news. Nakaochiai Gallery is launching on to a new trajectory VISIT the gallery this Thursday evening HEAR about the directions we’re headed CELEBRATE the plotting of…