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Month: March 2007

  • Tama Art University New Library

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    Architecturephoto.net has a few images of the Toyo Ito-designed Tama Art University New Library. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Digiki's Beat Vacation

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    Tokyo Fun Party is getting closer and closer to launching its record label, with the first release coming from our good friend Digiki. BEAT VACATION comes out April 25, and I’ll point you to Patrick’s Agenda entry, where he includes the track listing, and links to places where you can pre-order the album. In other…

  • Still No Monocle

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    OK, some of you are certainly thinking, “will he shut it already with this MONOCLE magazine!” But this time I can actually report on something. It’s only the second issue, and it looks like they’re already experience distribution problems in Japan. Still couldn’t get a copy today. At LIBRO they told me that it would…

  • A Love Letter to the Renault

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    Alin releases a new PDF book, this time “incorporating a compendium of architectures, designs, fashions and lifestyles” by way of the Renault.

  • Intervall-Audio

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    Intervall-audio is an MP3 netlabel that offers “electronic music between Dusseldorf and Tokyo” as free downloads, all under Creative Commons licenses. I was just listening to samples of a release by Sora, a Kyoto-based electronic artist, which quickly led to me downloading his LIVE AT METRO release. They also have a web shop that specializes…

  • Superfuture Superguides

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    I’m a bit late on this, but Superfuture (“urban fundamentals for global shopping experts”) is now offering Superfuture Superguides, which amount to 30-page PDF guides to various cities. Going for $20, these are public versions of reports the site has been producing for private clients for years now, and they will be updated on a…

  • TB.Pensar 001

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    What is this? For a while now I’ve been thinking that it might be nice to start writing a (mostly) weekly column-type post in which I could just blab about whatever is on my mind, and that wouldn’t necessarily fit as a regular post on the site. I’ve been told in the past that some…

  • Karl Escritt + Graniph

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    Kyoto-based designer Karl Escritt has designed these two t-shirts for Graniph. No word yet on when they’ll go for sale.

  • Muji Pencil Sharpener

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    Sure, it’s just a pencil sharpener, but it’s a damn fine looking one — and it’s from Muji. Almost makes me want to start using pencils again! They’ve recently released a few new items in their stationery collection, just in time for the start of the school year (which in Japan is in April).

  • Second Life in Japan

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    Second Life — the online virtual world that boasts rainfalls of dildoes (to get a better take on it, follow Warren Ellis‘ excellent weekly “Second Life Sketches” column for Reuters) — is coming to Japan. Will it catch on here? I finally got around to downloading the client a few weeks ago, wanting to find…