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Category: Magazines

  • TAB Talks #1 Report

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    Mari Mukai, who acted as MC at the inaugural TAB Talks last week with guest Yoshio Suzuki, an editor at BRUTUS, offers up a report on the event over at TABlog. The next TAB Talks happens March 11.

  • Tokyo Design Week 2007 in Kateigaho International Edition

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    I have a piece in the new issue of KATEIGAHO INTERNATIONAL EDITION (Spring 2008 Issue, Vol. 19). It takes a look at last year’s Tokyo Design Week, with a focus on the JAPAN BRAND initiative. The same issue also features a nice fashion piece that covers four new Japanese designers/labels.

  • TAB Talks #1

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    Last night I attended the first edition of TAB Talks in Gotanda at the new Gotanda Sonic event space. The guest speaker was Yoshio Suzuki, long-time editor at BRUTUS magazine who is behind most of the magazine’s art features. Expect a TABlog entry to sum up the talk sometime soon. It looks like they’re off…

  • Uroko House in Shinkenchiku

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    Paul Baron‘s “Uroko House” sleeping area, designed by Point Architects, makes an appearance in the current issue of SHINKENCHIKU magazine.

  • The Return of Smart Girls

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    SMART GIRLS, “the world’s favorite hipster booby magazine” (so says Marxy), is back on newsstands. It had stopped a while back — you may remember the final issue, featuring a pictorial by Karia Nomoto — after founder and photographer Yasumasa Yonehara had a falling out with the publisher, but Yonehara is again involved in this…

  • Food & Wine & Tokyo

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    A few months back I met up with the travel editor of FOOD & WINE magazine, who was in town doing a piece on Tokyo. Salma’s article appeared in the February 2008 issue, and she writes a bit about what we did on that day in this part. After we had lunch at Maisen, we…

  • This Week in Magazines

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    I’ve never included INVITATION in these posts, but the latest issue (59) caught my attention with its “TOKYO (written in kanji) VS Tokyo” cover. In the feature, they first offer a look at the city through the eyes of foreigners — for the most part creators and celebrities — and then switch things around by…

  • Time: Swatch Japan’s Ginza HQ

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    I have a piece in this week’s issue of TIME (Vol. 171, No. 3, Asian edition), which you can read online here. It’s on Swatch Japan‘s HQ in Ginza, the Nicolas G. Hayek Center.