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Month: April 2008

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Plusminuszero’s fan, Jo Nagasaka‘s Bench2, Hidebumi Yamaguchi‘s IMAnoWA collection, and a new furniture collection by Steve Lidbury for Arti.

  • Aoyama Project by Jun Aoki

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    Without knowing it was by Jun Aoki, the first time I walked past the Aoyama Project building I did find a passing resemblance to Aoki’s Louis Vuitton store in Ginza (the arrangement of the windows). See more photos of the building at Design Hub. Via Dezain.net.

  • 20th Century Boys Trailer

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    The official site for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s 20TH CENTURY BOYS (out August 30) is now hosting a teaser trailer. Nice to see the use of T.Rex’s “20th Century Boy” as the title rolls up! Via Anime News Network.

  • On Design for April 2008

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    My “On Design” column for the month was in yesterday’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES (although I’m told there was a printing error that put some of the text underneath an image), and can be read online here. In it, I cover Generate Design‘s “PROTOTYPE” shop, Takumi‘s Icon Clock, the Comore Mizusashi watering pot, Rice-Design‘s…

  • New DoCoMo Logo

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    The logo you see up there? It’s real, and it’s the new logo for Japan’s DoCoMo. Read more about the change here. Via Japan Probe.

  • PingMag: Art on Construction Fences

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    PingMag takes a look at the recent trend in Tokyo of organizing art projects on the fences that hide construction work. I think the first one I remember seeing was the one by KDa over the fence on Omotesando, during construction of Omotesando Hills.

  • Sneaker Love Pop-up Shop

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    Starting today (April 21) and running until May 6, Laforet in Harajuku is hosting the “KIKS TYO x YONE x AKI HOSHINO Sneaker Lover Pop-up Shop.” The shop will have exclusive collaborations with Champion, New Balance, and G-SHOCK, and will also be selling the limited edition tee (Hoshino photographed by Yone) seen below. Also, the…

  • PingMag: Tenori-on

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    Pingmag takes a look at Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-on sound visualizer.