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  • Muji Tote Bags

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    Continuing with the special events and items planned for the upcoming major re-launch of the Ikebukuro Seibu branch of Muji — set for September 18 — the latest is that Muji has invited 34 artists and designers to create imagery for a series of tote bags. Each bag will sell for 100 yen.

  • Tokyo Art Map for Sept/Oct

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    TAB‘s Tokyo Art Map for September/October is out — with spiffy new colors — and can be picked up around town at the usual spots (including Cafe Pause, of course). You can also download a PDF version here.

  • QR Barcode in the Sand

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    QR Barcode in the sand, anyone?

  • Graniph Design Award Winner

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    About a month late on this, but pictured above, the winner of this year’s Graniph Design Award, designed by Tokyo-based Choi Hwang Ho. You can see the rest of the winners here — I have to say I prefer a lot of the runner-ups.

  • Lunatic Moon

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    I recently linked to a couple of posts covering the zine scene from TABlog, but somehow missed this one, which has regular PauseTalker Sophie Knight writing about her experience creating a zine, and then selling it at the “Zine’s Mate” event.

  • Urban Paper

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    Despite the fact that I’ve been house-bound and on my back for the past month, I’m very glad to say that the “Urban Paper” paper toy art show and book launch is still happening at Cafe Pause next month. Produced by Josh McKible — who you all know from NaniBird — it celebrates the recently…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My latest Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, covering the following: Fumie Shibata’s Nagomi utensils (above), No Quiet’s Naname glasses, Naoto Fukasawa’s netbook for Samsung, Suikosha’s “Anything Collection” of desktop accessories, Jun Yasumoto’s Reading Lamp, and Ryohei Yoshiyuki’s ash tray.

  • Yuken Teruya

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    For his latest project, artist Yuken Teruya turns trash — like disposable paper bags from MickeyD’s — into beautiful art installations, like the scene pictured above. Via Marxy.

  • Visual Language for Designers

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    Ian has some work featured in the just-released Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand, and one of examples is the poster he originally created for my Cafe Pause poster series.

  • Inoko

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    If you find yourself in Inokashira park, beware of the roaming yokai, especially Inoko, pictured above on a pair of buttons. Matt has more info on a yokai-related event happening there this coming Saturday (August 28).