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Month: April 2009

  • Aeolian Ride

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    “Aeolian Ride” — held so far in a few cities around the world — sees a bunch of riders get together, put on an inflatable suit and, well, ride around. It’s coming to Tokyo on May 16, and if interested you can sign up here. Visit the previous cities’ photo galleries to get a better…

  • Generate LE*

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    Ronnie of Generate Design sends me word that they have now opened a bilingual (English/Japanese) section of their site — Generate LE* — to sell rare and limited items. Above, the Pool light by In Design.

  • PMKFA, the Book

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    Tokyo-based Swedish graphic designer Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) has released his first book through French brand Sixpack. The tome covers works from throughout his career, and is available for purchase online.

  • Commenting Down

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    It appears that commenting on the site is not quite working right now, and I can’t really figure out why. Thanks to everyone for letting me know about the problem, I’m trying to fix it. Update: Well, I can’t figure out what the hell the problem is. I’ve re-installed WordPress, tried downgrading, switched themes, and…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, again with coverage of Japan-related projects to be shown at this month’s Milano Salone. Above, Chris Kirby‘s Spiral Lamp.

  • New Business Card

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    That’s my new business card. The idea is by designer Ji Lee, who offered up a template for it on his website — unfortunately, that template is a bit too low-res, so I had to re-create the design at a higher resolution for print (and thank you Erika for prepping it for print). Too cheeky?…

  • OK Fred Gorilla Store 3

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    OK Fred magazine is producing a third “Gorilla Store” — yes, that is the intended spelling — this weekend (April 10-12, 12:00-19:00 daily), this time featuring works by Swedish designer Malin Baumann. It all takes place at OK Fred HQ in Kami-Meguro (near Yutenji station).

  • ART iT Goes Online-Only

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    I happened to pick up the latest issue of ART iT (23) yesterday for the cafe, and now I learn that it’s the final issue (or close to it). According to Digiki — who tweeted the news — the magazine is moving completely online.

  • Magazines for Cafe Reading

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    I stopped a while back to do those regular magazine round-up posts — it was a bit too time consuming to take all those notes and then put them together in a post — but I do still regularly pick up new magazines for Cafe Pause, and here’s a list of the latest bunch. Re:S…

  • Des Ailes

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    My dearest Audrey — and Radio OK Fred co-host — has produced a new book, and the launch happens tonight (18:00-20:00) at NOW IDeA by UTRECHT in Aoyama — this will be an advance sale of the book. Des Ailes is an adaptation of the Graine-d’aile fairy tale by French surrealist poet Paul Eluard, featuring…