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Category: Art & Design

  • Kosaka Jun

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    REALTOKYO art director Kosaka Jun has an upcoming solo exhibition called “Dot,” and it looks like quite interesting. REALTOKYO art director Kosaka Jun shows his works in a solo exhibition. Coming originally from architecture, his regular vocation is — very much like a contemporary creator — graphic and web design, showcased at this exhibition in…

  • 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…

  • Technology as Fashion

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    When the Apple Store opened in Ginza last year, 5,000 people queued up outside, more than for Louis Vuitton’s Omotesando store opening the year before. In the first week the store brought in around ¥100 million in sales and since then, the store is reported to have averaged 5,000 visitors a day—on weekdays. Last month,…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft Blogs in Japan

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    And the Microsoft invasion continues. Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it was launching its first-ever Web log service in Japan next week and aimed to have one million users in the first year, intensifying competition with Google Inc. More info in the full Yahoo! News article.

  • Nintendo MS

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    Nooooooooooo… U.S. computer giant Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates has expressed interest in buying Japan’s Nintendo Co, the German economic weekly Wirtschafts Woche reported in its electronic edition on Wednesday. Gates revealed his interest at a meeting of economic analysts in the United States. The magazine quoted Gates as saying he would immediately make an…

  • 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.