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Category: Art & Design

  • Kitty Ex.

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    Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of Hello Kitty, or as Momus refers to her, that “silly milquetoast beast.” Contemporary art works featuring popular feline character “Hello Kitty” were shown to the press Friday in Tokyo before the official opening Saturday of an exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the cat brand. More than 100 Japanese…

  • Colette Meets CDG

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    Colette Meets Comme des Garcons is a new temporary shop that has just opened in Aoyama, and will occupy the old Comme des Garcons space until the end of December. You’ll find lots of cool select items that have been created specifically for the space, as well as regular exhibitions. The first one is by…

  • 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.

  • Nintendo DS

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    The final design of the upcoming Nintendo DS portable game machine has been announced (the version presented at the E3 show a few months ago was just a demo). I must say it’s looking nice, and I’m quite looking forward to playing SUPER MARIO 64 on my daily commutes. And speaking of portable gaming, I…

  • Back to Black (or Dark Brown)

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    AFTER more than a decade of being strawberry blonde, sandy brown or even metallic silver, Japanese are rediscovering the root colour of their hair. In this country, where more than eight in 10 people colour their hair, it has caused a prominent change of hue in the cityscape. Up until last year, it was not…

  • Dezain.net

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    Dezain.net is a bilingual (Japanese/English) design blog. Amazingly enough, it seems that the author, Okada Eizo, does the whole thing in HTML, using no blog software. Link via Chad.

  • The Book of Pallalink

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    Architect Kawahara Kazuhiko, who goes by the name Palla, creates beautiful parallel images of pictures he takes in Osaka. He’s been mentioned here before, but if you haven’t already, check out his site for tons of beautiful imagery. He’s now created a book, called THE BOOK OF PALLALINK, which he will be printing himself. To…

  • Barnbrook Design

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    I’ve just realized that I missed July’s exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, which pisses me off as it was something I really wanted to see (the annual ADC show). Well, nothing much I can do about it, except make sure to go early to the next one, which starts August 5. In August 2004…

  • Captain Porno

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    I am so in love with my new Captain Porno. Designed by Shu-Thang Grafix, it’s a product of Roughtoyz. A huge thanks goes out to Jun, who not only runs Roughtoyz and the Pause cafe, but also the Rough empire, which includes the Collector’s Showcase figure shops. One of them is just down the street…