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Architecture MoCo Loco

Tod’s Omotesando

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Over at MoCo Tokyo, I’ve just posted a bunch of pics of the still under construction Tod’s flagship store on Omotesando. I took the shots yesterday.

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Design MoCo Loco

Kouchi Market

The latest entry I wrote for MoCo Tokyo is about the very nice-looking Kouchi Market at the Tsukiji fish market. With the MoCo site I need to be a bit more careful about images I use, and the one from their official site wasn’t so great. To get a better idea of what the place looks like, have a look here. Also, I first learned about the place in the latest issue of MONITOR, which has an absolutely beautiful pictorial of it.

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Design MoCo Loco

Atelier Bow-Wow

I am in love with the designs of Atelier Bow-Wow. Expect a full MoCo Tokyo listing sometime soon. Right now there’s a feature on them at the site for the magazine DOMUS (free registration required, and it’s worth it). Link via Dezain.net.

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Design MoCo Loco

MoCo Tokyo Is Go

mocotokyoI announced a while back that I was going to be involved with the MoCo network of sites, and today marks the launch of MoCo Tokyo, a guide to modern contemporary design in Tokyo. It’s edited by me (meaning I write all the entries). Here’s the announcement that MoCo Loco guru Harry Wakefield just posted:

MoCo Loco is pleased to announce that Jean Snow of jeansnow.net fame is now also the editor of MoCo Tokyo, the latest addition to the growing network of MoCo directories worldwide (Amsterdam, Montreal, San Francisco). Tokyo is a hotbed of design and architecture, home to many trends that, increasingly, and rapidly, find their way to the rest of the globe. Jean is a transplanted Acadian with a unique perspective on the city and it’s design. Welcome Jean by sending him a submission here. Bienvenue Jean!

So from now on, all of my writings about design in Tokyo will be posted at the MoCo Tokyo site exclusively (except for graphic and web design). Please let me know what you think, and of course, any suggestions on things that I should be writing about are greatly appreciated. I plan on posting new entries a few times a week.

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Design MoCo Loco

MoCo Tokyo

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I’ve been teasing you recently with news of upcoming projects, and one of them is that I’ve been asked by Harry Wakefield, who runs MoCo Loco (“a web magazine featuring modern contemporary design news and views”), to be editor of the soon-to-be-launched MoCo Tokyo. It’ll be joining other cities like Montreal, San Francisco, and the recently launched Amsterdam version, which is edited by Joost van Brug, of Reluct fame (one of my favorite sites on design news, that I visit daily). I’m really excited by this, and I believe the site will launch in a few weeks. I hope you’ll enjoy following my coverage of Tokyo-based modern design.