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  • E2O

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    I just love all the products being designed for the E2O project. The E2O Project has been established by Hokkaido based designers and artists active in the Japanese and international art scene. The project’s objective is to provide a new style of products, where the product itself becomes, or is viewed as a work. The…

  • MoCo Tokyo

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    I’ve been teasing you recently with news of upcoming projects, and one of them is that I’ve been asked by Harry Wakefield, who runs MoCo Loco (“a web magazine featuring modern contemporary design news and views”), to be editor of the soon-to-be-launched MoCo Tokyo. It’ll be joining other cities like Montreal, San Francisco, and the recently…

  • Genevieve Gauckler

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    Earlier tonight I went to visit OK Fredders Audrey and Yoshi, and while there they played a DVD that had a very nice animated slide show by French artist Genevieve Gauckler, whose works you can enjoy right now at the new Colette Meets Comme des Garçons shop in Aoyama. The DVD was actually one side…

  • Idea 305

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    Looks like I’m going to have to pick up the current issue of bilingual Japanese design magazine IDEA (305). The feature is on Hara Kenya, who did a lot of design work for Muji. As you can see by the above pages, it’s a terrific-looking issue.

  • JT and the Dangers of Smoking

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    Been noticing images like the one you see here a lot lately, in trains and stations. It’s a new campaign by a Tobacco company, JT. The ads do look nice, quite design friendly (see some more in this latest Click Opera entry). Robert was inspired to write a new essay. Update (16/08/21): The image is…

  • Uchida Shigeru

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    Designboom has an interview up with designer Uchida Shigeru. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Follow the Leader

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    One of the events taking place at TSiG is called “Follow the Leader,” in which a bunch of designers (Swedish and Japanese) get together to create one continuous piece. “Follow The Leader” is an ongoing graphic design event were designers will follow in eachothers footsteps and create a vertikal poster of 9×1 m. Four Japanese…

  • Japanese Design in the West

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    Designboom takes a look at some recent showings of Japanese design around the world (including Tokyo Style in Sweden), and covers Namaiki, Atelier Bow-wow, and MIKAN. The above image is by Namaiki. Link via Re.

  • Shift 2005 Calendar Competition

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    A press release from Shift: Shift 2005 Calendar Competition presented by Shift is coming soon, followed by its successful result of the past two years. Submission starts on August 1st. Shift has been trying to offer artists many platforms to showcase their works online. Shift calendar competition, which was held in 2003 and 2004 successively,…

  • Tokyo Designers Block 2004 Submissions

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    The deadline to register and submit works for the Tokyo Designers Block 2004 is coming up (August 7). Also, it looks like I’ll probably be involved in the coverage of this, and I’ll give more info when things are officially set.