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Month: July 2007

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo round-up for MoCo Loco is up.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Shin-Marunouchi Building Takeo Showroom Krispy Kreme Kraziness Under Tokyo You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • This Week on Tokyo Eye

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    This week’s episode of TOKYO EYE (#40) — it starts airing today — is the one which has me in the studio for the entire taping, and features the longest segment I’ve done yet, about 10 minutes long, on the creative use of space in Japanese architecture, featuring a few examples of what Atelier Bow-Wow…

  • My Private Tokyo: Pocket Parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro

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    Here’s the segment I did for NHK World’s TOKYO EYE program, as part of their “My Private Tokyo” series, on the pocket parks of Higashi-Ikebukuro (I wrote about the show here, and have photos of each here). As you can see, the idea here was to be a bit more wacky, which helps explain my,…

  • Brockmann Figures

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    Added these two Brockmann figures by Groovisions to my collection the other day. They are part of the Brockmann Extreme series. I picked them up at the Shin-Marunouchi Building, at one of the select shops on the 5th floor.

  • The Missing Spider-Men

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    Added these 2 figures to my Spider-Man gacha-pon collection. I was just missing these 2, so now I have all 6 (except for the secret one — it’s Spider-Man 2099, but they’re selling it for too much). I got them at one of the stores at Nakano Broadway.

  • On Design for July 2007

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    This month’s edition of my “On Design” column was in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and can be read online here. In it, I cover Dainippon Type Organization‘s Toypography, DoCoMo‘s Simpure L2, Kazuhito Ishida‘s Book Hook, and Uniqlo’s Hotels Homes line of home and personal accessories.

  • Badges by Karl Escritt

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    Karl Escritt has made a ton of badges. I want some.

  • Facetime

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    Chris Palmieri has started a new series of font-related interviews for the AQ blog called “Facetime.” As Chris explains, the “series was originally conceived for Japanese designers, to introduce well-crafted Western fonts and the contemporary designers behind them. In the end though, we enjoyed these interviews so much ourselves, we decided to publish them in…

  • Kumiko Okamura’s MDDA

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    Intervall-audio has a new MP3 release, MDDA, by Kumiko Okamura. Read more about the Tokyo-based artist here, where you can also download the album.