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Magazines

This Week in Magazines

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  • PEN (205) devotes an issue to “Tutto Ferrari,” all that is Ferrari. As you may imagine, I skimmed this one pretty fast.
  • STUDIO VOICE (381) declares that “Young Photo Strikes Back!!” It’s a great issue with a round-up of the young up-and-coming photographers you need to keep an eye out for, with lots of photos on display. Definitely worth picking up for the visuals alone.
  • If you’re a map and diagram geek, you’ll find lots to love in this month’s IDEA (324), with enough charts, lines, and graphs to make even WIRED‘s monthly “Infoporn” column weep. They also cover the work of Andrew Blauvelt at the Walker Art Center (1998-2007), which is presented in a very attractive thick acetate-like paper.
  • TOKION JAPAN (62) has kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa on the cover, with the kind of large feature/profile inside that the magazine is now known for. Their “Glocal Spot” for the month is Antwerp, which is presented as a fashion-focused guide to the city. Kiiiiiii and Nudie Jeans — sponsor of our Swedish Style event at Cafe Pause last year — also get coverage.
  • +81 (37) presents the “Craft Graphic Issue,” which the editor explains as “works that had a special feeling put into them when they were made.” From what gets featured, it translates has pieces that have an organic feel to them, as in hand-drawn illustrations or paintings.
  • BRUTUS (623) presents another food issue, this time with rankings in various categories.
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Fashion

A Bathing Ape’s 24-Hour Television T-Shirt

In case you missed it, NTV had its annual 24-hour telethon this past weekend, and this year’s t-shirt, worn by all participants and sold to raise funds, was designed/donated by A Bathing Ape (BAPE). With the tee plastered all over TV and selling more than 300 000 copies at 1400 yen a pop, does this make BAPE mainstream now? More at Clast from Marxy.

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Photography TB.Grafico

Panoramic Ikebukuro

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A few of the shots that I took the other day during our 8mm outing were for a panoramic stitch, which you can better see here.

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Art Events

PingMag: Gallery Scene

PingMag interviews Motokazu Terai, director of Shibuya’s recently opened Gallery Scene, which I also covered a few weeks ago on Gridskipper.

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Magazines

Magazine Covers and the Internet

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If you see the latest issue of JJ on the newsstands, you’ll notice idol Takuya Kimura on the cover, but on JJ’s website, a blank image. A sign of Johnny’s Jimusho’s excessive control over image rights and the web? Marxy exposes the truth.

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Fashion

TAB in WWD Japan

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Nice to see Tokyo Art Beat get some coverage in WWD Japan for their latest t-shirt collection.

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Architecture

CNN Interviews Tadao Ando

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The CNN site hosts a 3-part interview (dating back to April) with architect Tadao Ando regarding his work and its relation to nature, and also includes a tour of his Church of Light. Via Dezain.net.

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Photography

The Laughing Girl

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Alin Huma posts a new PDF booklet, this time a collection of old low-res shots, and the Laughing Girl!

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Design MoCo Loco

This Week at MoCo Loco

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My weekly Tokyo post is up on MoCo Loco, this time with news of Graf‘s Plankton Chair, this weekend’s Good Design Presentation, and a change in mobile phones.

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This Week at Gridskipper

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