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Category: Cafes

  • Starbucks in Kamakura

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    Rather nice looking Starbucks in Kamakura, “designed to resemble a wooden Japanese-style home.” Via PSFK.

  • 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.

  • Sketchin’

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    If you’ve been to PauseTalk, then there’s a good chance you know Joseph Keenan. Probably the person outside of me who has attended the most sessions, it’s been a joy all these years to have him attend — and yes, he became a very good friend as well — and it’s with sadness that we…

  • Higashiya Closes, Still Reviewed

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    How strange: the beautiful teahouse and sweets shop in Nakameguro Higashiya is about to close its doors (not sure on the date, but soon), yet it gets a “recommendation” post on Cool Hunting, with no mention of said closing.

  • Shantell, NYC Edition

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    We ended the “Little Pink” exhibition last night with a nice little gathering, which also gave us a chance to say goodbye to Shantell, who left for NYC today. Thank you Hiro for the photo. From left: me, Shantell, and Anna.

  • Architect Cafe

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    Looking for an architect? Then head on down to the Architect Cafe, where you can meet with architects and discuss projects. According to Spoon & Tamago, “they have an extensive database of architects that you can sweep through by name or by portfolio, and decide on a style you like.” There are currently two locations,…

  • Little Pink Starts

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    The “Little Pink” exhibition — read about it here — is now on at Cafe Pause, and runs until Sunday (April 26). Update: Looks like we’re going to have a reception tomorrow night (Thursday, April 23) at the cafe with Shantell and Gelman for the show. I’ll post more details soon, but please join us…

  • Magazines for Cafe Reading

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    I stopped a while back to do those regular magazine round-up posts — it was a bit too time consuming to take all those notes and then put them together in a post — but I do still regularly pick up new magazines for Cafe Pause, and here’s a list of the latest bunch. Re:S…