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Month: August 2004

  • Tokyo Designers Block 2004 Submissions

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    The deadline to register and submit works for the Tokyo Designers Block 2004 is coming up (August 7). Also, it looks like I’ll probably be involved in the coverage of this, and I’ll give more info when things are officially set.

  • Nintendo DS

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    The final design of the upcoming Nintendo DS portable game machine has been announced (the version presented at the E3 show a few months ago was just a demo). I must say it’s looking nice, and I’m quite looking forward to playing SUPER MARIO 64 on my daily commutes. And speaking of portable gaming, I…

  • 34

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    During one of my frequent Junkudo magazine reading sessions, I had a look at a newish design mag from Turkey called 34. I had a look at the second issue, and quite liked what I saw. I would have bought it if not for the high price (foreign magazines are insanely expensive here). 34 is…

  • Beat Versus Kitano

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    Yeah, yeah, another article on Kitano Takeshi, and ZATOICHI is like, so 2003, but I did like this bit: Hollywood movies are like Ford cars, they flood the marketplace,” he said. “But when you start to worry that they are going to take over everything, other trends start to develop. In Japan we are seeing…

  • Back to Black (or Dark Brown)

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    AFTER more than a decade of being strawberry blonde, sandy brown or even metallic silver, Japanese are rediscovering the root colour of their hair. In this country, where more than eight in 10 people colour their hair, it has caused a prominent change of hue in the cityscape. Up until last year, it was not…

  • Updates

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    Spent a lot of time today adding little features to the site. First thing you’ll notice is that the various sections (archive pages, category pages, the front page) now have some navigation links at the bottom, and are all limited to 15 posts per page. The big problem was that anybody going to the TB.Grafico…

  • Dezain.net

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    Dezain.net is a bilingual (Japanese/English) design blog. Amazingly enough, it seems that the author, Okada Eizo, does the whole thing in HTML, using no blog software. Link via Chad.

  • OK Fred 4 Cover

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    The cover to the next issue of OK FRED (4), the rap issue, which will be out August 12. It will feature interviews with: Scha Dara Parr, Krs-One, Tes, TTC, Afra, Doseone, Why?, Odd Nosdam, Alias, Jel, Funkstorung, dDamage, Andrew Broder, Ghislain Poirier, Madlib, The Books, Mum, KID606, Adventure Time, Buck 65, Michel Gaubert, Kid…