Month: May 2009
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BLACK Comme des Garcons
From the Neojaponisme Twitter feed: Comme des Garcons launching a new cheaper brand called BLACK in Shibuya Parco on June 5.
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Muscle March
The game every Wii owner has been waiting for: Muscle March, out May 26 as a WiiWare title. Via Offworld.
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This Week at MoCo Loco
My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Alexander Gelman’s Lohas Design Award nomination, Naoto Fukasawa for B&B Italia, Nosigner‘s “The Rose Nebuta,” and Yukio Hashimoto’s Moonbird.
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Nakameguro in Bloom
Overhead shot of Nakameguro while the cherry blossoms were in bloom in early April. Via Craig.
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Goliga Books
Andrew just brought to my attention Goliga Books, an independent Tokyo-based editorial firm that creates books about photography, art, and design for various publishers, and run by Ivan Vartanian, a former New Yorker. I see its behind Tiffany Godoy’s Style Deficit Disorder, a Harajuku fashion primer I quite enjoyed — Néojaponisme was a bit more…
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Kosuke Tsumura's Mother Piece
Fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura — here’s an interview with him from PingMag — presented his “Mother Piece” (pictured above) at the “Tokyo Fiber 09 Senseware” exhibition in Milan. Each “garment” is composed of interlocking pieces made of a soft material called felibendy. Via Designboom.
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Kiyoshi Awazu
Graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu passed away late last month — he was 80 — and Designboom features a few of his classic works. Update: Néojaponisme also shares a gallery of works by Awazu.
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TiltShift Generator Is Out
Takayuki Fukatsu’s TiltShift Generator app is now out. You can either use it online from this page, or download an Adobe AIR version.
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Rakugo on the Web
The piece about rakugo featuring Craig that appeared in the June ’09 issue of Esquire Japan is now online on Yahoo Japan’s X Brand site (Japanese-only).