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  • New Website for Wonderwall

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    You may have already heard about it — it’s been making the web rounds — but Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall) has indeed updated his company’s website, enlisting the aid of flash master Yugo Nakamura. The result is quite fun, although I’m never a fan of sites that make you wait while they load. Portfolio sites can…

  • Tokyo Reflections

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    I haven’t seen it myself — hell, I haven’t seen much of anything over the past three months — but Cheungvogl‘s “Tokyo Reflections” interactive installation on the JR platforms at Tokyo station looks like an interesting one. I found out about it through this post over at Designboom — where you can read more details…

  • Tube-1

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    Witness the beautiful Tube-1, a vacuum tube amp and speaker system that can be used with iPods (also comes with an FM antenna). It was designed by Tokyo-based Supercent — made up of the duo of Atsushi Koike and Tadahito Ishibashi — and is apparently being commercialized.

  • Design Festa Vol. 30

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    Design Festa returns to Tokyo Big Sight in just over a week (October 24-25) for an amazing 30th edition, which also marks the 15th anniversary of the event. Expect over 8,500 artists/designers to fill up the space, with tons to see and pick up.

  • Ensenada

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    Ian Lynam has designed a new font, now available for purchase at MyFonts. Ensenada is “based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.”

  • Nendo and Moleskine

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    Nendo is joins the “Detour” Moleskine exhibition — running October 16 to November 4 at the MoMA Design Store in Tokyo — with the piece pictured above. Commenting on the contribution, Nendo explains: By cutting the pages of the sketchbook to create a three-dimensional landscape, we wanted to show the way that sketches function in…

  • IID’s Fifth Anniversary Party

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    The Ikejiri Institute of Design (IID) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in style, and Tokyo Art Beat co-founder Paul Baron has the pics to prove it. It goes without saying, but I wish I could have attended.

  • Good Design Award 2009

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    The results for this year’s edition of the Good Design Award were recently announced, and you can have a look at all the winning products through the nifty Good Design Finder. Have a look at the top 15 here, which includes this summer’s giant Gundam statue in Odaiba (now sadly gone), and the Panasonic Massage…

  • Photos from Senseware

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    Couldn’t make it to last month to the 21_21 Design Sight”s “Tokyo Fiber ’09 Senseware” exhibition? TABlog has you covered with a gallery of photos from the show’s opening.

  • Chiso Memo Block

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    The Tokyo Art Beat online store is now selling the colorful Chiso Memo Block by Kenjiro Sano.