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Category: Stores

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Soba Kichi Billboard Live Tokyo The ‘Monocle’ Quality of Life Index Timberland Shibuya You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Timberland Opening in Shibuya

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    I put up a Flickr photoset of some shots I took at the opening this past Thursday of the new Timberland concept store in Shibuya, designed by Assistant.

  • Another ABC Closing

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    I wanted to stop by the Aoyama Book Center branch in Shibuya (top floor of the HMV store) the other day, and was greeted with this. The store closed September 17.

  • Parco Posters

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    Posters for the latest sales campaign at the Parco shopping center in Ikebukuro.

  • Compilation for Ghost Radar at Tokyo Recohan

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    Patrick Benny’s Tokyo Recohan webstore has been a great resource for used CDs of Japanese music, and now he’s slowly venturing into offering new items as well. Right now it’s COMPILATION FOR GHOST RADAR, featuring the likes of PINE*am and Elektal. Quantities are limited, and shipping is only available OUTSIDE of Japan. More details here.…

  • Odd MUJI Fonts

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    The image you see above has been used in some messages from MUJI — from their mailing list — and I find the use of font quite strange. They keep the traditional MUJI color, but the font just feels out of place, and old. This is not the first time I see it used, but…

  • Points 01

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    The second episode of Jason DeGroot‘s POINTS series (following #0) is up on its own, after being first shown as part of the latest episode of the 1UP SHOW. It covers two great game-related shops, Meteor and Suteki (more details here).

  • Timberland Store by Assistant

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    Megumi Matsubara (Assistant) is rather busy these days, and next up is the opening later this week of a new concept store in Shibuya for the Timberland brand. I’ll write a more detailed post for Gridskipper after the shop opens, but I got these sneak peek images of what the interior will look like, and…