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  • Educated Community

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    Educated Community is a free bilingual (Japanese and English) magazine from New York, “focusing on what’s happening in the street scenes of New York City and Tokyo.” I’m trying to get more info on it, but a lot of the links on the site don’t seem to work properly. I’m wondering if someone in New…

  • SAL

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    I really like SAL, a free paper that comes out 4 times a year. The biggest mystery to me is how they can continue to offer this thing free. It’s huge (about the size of two magazines side-by-side), and features sort of glossy/paper pages that look really nice. The latest one (12) is the “Stereo…

  • Here and There

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    During my outing in Aoyama yesterday, I spotted an interesting looking indie magazine called HERE AND THERE (at the Watari-Um bookshop, as well as Nadiff). Published by Hayashi Nakako, it features a lot of photography, some interviews, nice extras like mini-zines and cards, and takes the shape of a giant-sized tabloid. At 2000 yen it’s…

  • OK Fred is OK

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    REALTOKYO has some nice things to say about OK FRED, and the upcoming release party. OK Fred is one of the better Japanese music magazines with a pleasantly hand-made feel. Increasing its volume with each issue, the makers have geared up and presented a bilingual paper with volume 3, and in celebration of the publication…

  • Coyote

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    The other day I spotted the first issue of a new travel magazine called COYOTE. The emphasis seems to be on photography, and it’s really funky photography at that. As it’s Japanese only, I’m not sure how the articles are, but the vast majority of the magazine is composed of pictures, the kind you’d find…

  • Digiki Does Japan

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    Digiki is back in Japan for a few weeks, and the latest entries from his blog are giving us visuals of what he’s experiencing. He’s now in Osaka, but he’ll be in Tokyo by the end of the week, just in time for the OK FRED event.

  • Animated Frank

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    Fuyama Taruto creates a great animated short based on the work of Jim Woodring, and you can view it here. Link via Artbomb.

  • 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…

  • Casa Brutus 54

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    As moblogged the other day, the new issue of CASA BRUTUS (54) is bilingual, and features the theme “Preserve Modern Architecture in Japan.” The only unfortunate thing is that it features J-Pop star Hamasaki Ayumi on the cover. Lame. I’ll be picking it up when I’m done with the magazines I’m currently reading. Actually, looks…

  • 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.