Category: Design

  • Business Cards

    I was chatting with NCM designer extraordinaire Jesper last night, and was telling him that I wanted to get some business cards done. He quickly volunteered to design some (to my relief), and without any directions from me (except maybe to keep it simple), he quickly came up with these. I absolutely love them, and…

  • SOUND X VISION Set

    The “SOUND X VISION 2004” exhibition is currently touring a few cities before arriving in Tokyo in December, and REALTOKYO mentions the official CD/DVD package that has been out for at least a month now. The “SOUND X VISION 2004” sound/visual exhibition is currently traveling Osaka, Sendai, Yamaguchi and Tokyo. A look at director Hariya…

  • 2004 Design Event Pics

    Japan Design Net has quite a few pics from this year’s Designer’s Week and Designers Block. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Haction

    Haction is the company behind the great Braniff Airline exhibition that was held recently at the Parco Gallery in Shibuya, and they also run a cool online store called Tokyo Artist Mansion, where they carry merchandise for a few japanese artists, as well as Namaiki (I’m absolutely in love with the sold out “Namaiki Racing”…

  • Nishimura Hiroyuki

    Nice! The new edition of REDESIGNING TOKYO is up at REALTOKYO, and this time it features uber-popular Japanese message board 2-CHANNEL‘s creator, Nishimura Hiroyuki.

  • Parking 246

    And with these pics taken at the Parking 246 area, we end my series from this year’s October design events (which for me was mostly TDB and Swedish Style related). I wish I could have taken in more, but at the same time, I think I got my fill of design related happenings to keep…

  • I Love Chairs

    “I Love Chairs” is an upcoming event at the Ozone Living Design Center in Shinjuku (October 21 to November 23). It brings together chair selections from 300 designers, all chosen on the basis of love for the design, memories, etc. The above image is from Colucci Design. Update (16/08/23): The image is no longer available.

  • TDB and Idee

    Some more pics taken at the Idee shop during TDB. Shots taken with the W21S mobile phone.

  • Ashino Kimiaki

    I failed to link to it when it was posted last week, but you really should have a look at the latest edition of REALTOKYO’s REDESIGNING TOKYO column, based on a talk with NADiff creator/owner Ashino Kimiaki. It takes a look at how culture and commerce can mix, to various degrees of success. You know,…

  • Cibone And A

    Some more pics from last week’s TDB. On the left, the Cibone lifestyle shop in Aoyama. On the right, the entrance to And A. Every ball had Japanese characters, and people were using them to spell out their names. Shots taken with the W21S mobile phone