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  • Good Ideas Salon Tokyo

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    PSFK is hosting a Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo next week (October 20, from 18:30) at Claska, featuring the topic of “Pure Living” and two loaded panels: Marc Alt, Mark Dytham, Peter Rojas, and PSFK founder Piers Fawkes in the first part, followed by Rie Azuma, Jun Ishida, Hiromi Matsubara, and Danny Choo in the…

  • New Website for Wonderwall

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    You may have already heard about it — it’s been making the web rounds — but Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall) has indeed updated his company’s website, enlisting the aid of flash master Yugo Nakamura. The result is quite fun, although I’m never a fan of sites that make you wait while they load. Portfolio sites can…

  • Tokyo Reflections

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    I haven’t seen it myself — hell, I haven’t seen much of anything over the past three months — but Cheungvogl‘s “Tokyo Reflections” interactive installation on the JR platforms at Tokyo station looks like an interesting one. I found out about it through this post over at Designboom — where you can read more details…

  • Kenji Hirata

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    Cool Hunting covers the beautiful work of Japan-born, New York-based artist Kenji Hirata — loving the chromatic explosions. He has a solo show, “The Way Out is the Way In,” opening next week (October 17) at the Joshua Liner Gallery, and running until November 14.

  • Slit Court

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    Slit Court, a residential project in Kyoto by EASTERN Design Office. Via Dezeen.

  • Tube-1

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    Witness the beautiful Tube-1, a vacuum tube amp and speaker system that can be used with iPods (also comes with an FM antenna). It was designed by Tokyo-based Supercent — made up of the duo of Atsushi Koike and Tadahito Ishibashi — and is apparently being commercialized.

  • Design Festa Vol. 30

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    Design Festa returns to Tokyo Big Sight in just over a week (October 24-25) for an amazing 30th edition, which also marks the 15th anniversary of the event. Expect over 8,500 artists/designers to fill up the space, with tons to see and pick up.

  • The Shinjuku Summit

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    Patrick Macias has a new episode of his Hot Tears of Shame podcast, and fans of otaku culture will not want to miss it. “Otaku Internationale: The Shinjuku Summit” brings together Patrick #1, Patrick #2 (that would be The Otaku Encyclopedia‘s Patrick W. Galbraith), PhD student Renato Rivera, and Otaku2 co-founder Adrian Lozano, covering a…

  • Ensenada

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    Ian Lynam has designed a new font, now available for purchase at MyFonts. Ensenada is “based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.”

  • Tokyo Realtime Akihabara

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    It’s been a long time coming, but White Rabbit Press has finally released the second volume in its Tokyo Realtime audio tour series, this time covering Akihabara. The tour is currently available as a digital download — for $12, with a sample available on the official site — and the full print package will be…