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Month: October 2009

  • Plastic Moon

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    Plastic Moon is a new house in Tokyo that combines a private residence with the owner’s dental practice, and includes a swimming pool on the top floor. It was designed by Norisada Maeda Atelier. See more photos at Dezeen.

  • Isolation Unit + Karimoku

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    Isolution Unit teams with furniture manufacturer Karimoku for a new collection, to be previewed at next week’s 100% Design Tokyo (October 30 to November 3). More details and images over at Designboom.

  • On Design Is Next Week

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    Just a note to say that this month’s edition of my “On Design” column for The Japan Times is pushed back a week, and will be published on Thursday of next week (October 29), on the eve of Tokyo Design Week.

  • Small House H

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    I often tell people that one day I’d like to get some land in or around Kamakura and have a Muji house built there — my preference is for the original Ki no Ie — but I think Kumiko Inui‘s Small House H would suit me as well. See more of the private residence at…

  • Tokyo Graphic Passport

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    TABlog has a couple of reports on the recent Tokyo Graphic Passport event: first on the state of the art scene, and then on the independent magazine panel.

  • Shinrin no Gyunyu

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    I’m not a big drinker of milk — even got my parents worried when I was a child — but this cute packaging for Shinrin no Gyunyu (Forest Milk) sure makes me want to drink some of it. Or at the very least to store a few bottles on the trays in my fridge. Via…

  • STELLA

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    To be shown at the Tokyo Motor Show (October 24 to November 4), fashion retailer Beams teams up with Subaru for the electric STELLA, pictured above. The design is by Tabito Mizuo. Via CScout Japan.

  • The State of Anime

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    Matt Alt highlights a few bits on the recent state of the Japanese anime industry from a report in Cyzo magazine on the Japan Anime Collaboration Market 2009 symposium held earlier this month.

  • Lesque Fall 2009

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    Ian Lynam collaborates with Lesque for a new round of board designs.

  • Luv (sic) Pt. 2

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    Terrific video for Nujabes‘ “Luv (sic) Pt. 2.”