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Tag: Design

  • Mobile Dining

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    Great furniture design by Nobuhiro Teshima dating back to 2006: the Mobile Dining stowaway table. It not only folds away, the height is also adjustable. Via Boing Boing.

  • Endless Rain Record

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    Created for Kyouei‘s “Rain” exhibition during the Taiwan Design Expo ’09, the Endless Rain Record does just what its name implies: plays the sound of rain endlessly — the grooves on the vinyl form a circle.

  • New Board from OPEN

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    A new planned design at OPEN Skateboards, an homage to designer Kiyoshi Awazu, by Ian Lynam.

  • Time for Coffee

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    Some nice minimalist packaging for bottled coffee. Via FFFFOUND!

  • Isolation Unit + Karimoku

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    Isolution Unit teams with furniture manufacturer Karimoku for a new collection, to be previewed at next week’s 100% Design Tokyo (October 30 to November 3). More details and images over at Designboom.

  • On Design Is Next Week

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    Just a note to say that this month’s edition of my “On Design” column for The Japan Times is pushed back a week, and will be published on Thursday of next week (October 29), on the eve of Tokyo Design Week.

  • Tokyo Graphic Passport

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    TABlog has a couple of reports on the recent Tokyo Graphic Passport event: first on the state of the art scene, and then on the independent magazine panel.

  • Shinrin no Gyunyu

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    I’m not a big drinker of milk — even got my parents worried when I was a child — but this cute packaging for Shinrin no Gyunyu (Forest Milk) sure makes me want to drink some of it. Or at the very least to store a few bottles on the trays in my fridge. Via…