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Month: April 2009

  • AU + Yayoi Kusama

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    Am I the only person in the blogosphere who doesn’t care for Yayoi Kusama‘s new collaboration mobile phone for AU? Do you really want a phone that looks like it has a disease? I do dig the AC Adapter Midori that comes with it though (below). Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • Koganecho at Night

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    Some beautiful night photography of Koganecho (in Yokohama) at night, by Katsuyoshi Ueno.

  • Hana Table

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    Shige Hasegawa‘s Hana table, designed using an origami technique, and to be shown at the Salone Satellite in Milan later this month. Via FreshMoCo.

  • Kanpyo Udon

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    Great package design work from Nosigner on a new brand of udon noodles, Kanpyo Udon, set to go on sale in June. As Spoon & Tamago’s Johnny describes them, the noodles are ” a new type of udon that use fiber-enhancing dried gourd shavings as an addition to the typically flour-only recipe.”

  • OK Fred Uniform

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    OK, consider me jealous. Pictured, OK Fred ‘s Yoshi, sporting an emblazoned jacket he received last week as a birthday present.

  • Commenting Fixed

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    Commenting should be back up. After being down for a week, it’s thanks to my constant tech lifesaver, Patrick, who suggested I take a look at the site’s database. That was indeed the problem — the comments table had crashed, and was in need of repair.

  • Chocolate Cake Blogs

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    Cape Town-based — but Japan loving — production company Chocolate Cake is now blogging. To find out more about the Japan connection, see this post from last year.

  • Suming Up Tokyo Art Week

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    Antonin (Digiki) — one of the founders of 101TOKYO — gives his take on the art week (101TOKYO, Art Fair Tokyo) that was.

  • Luis Mendo’s Tokyo Diary

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    Art director Luis Mendo decided to take a 3-month “inspirational retreat” in Tokyo, and he’s been keeping some brilliantly illustrated diaries of his everyday experiences — see the Flickr photoset of some of the pages. He’s also putting together a great web-based diary of his Tokyo adventures, featuring photos, videos, etc.

  • Eclipse Light

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    The latest post I did for MoCo Loco includes news of the Designersblock exhibition at this month’s Milano Salone featuring works by Chris Kirby, Drill Design, Mikiya Kobayashi, and Keiji Ashizawa. The item Keiji will be showing is the Eclipse Light (above and below). The Eclipse is made up of a circular sheet that is…