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Month: October 2004

  • Design Versus Rain

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    Even with the rain (I was still shivering from being soaked this morning when I woke up), last night ended up being lots of fun. I met up with Jesper in Shibuya after work, and we walked to Daikanyama, stopping at a few places along the way. We first stopped at Collex Speakfor and Gallery…

  • Zen Cafes

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    An article from the INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE takes a look at the growing popularity of Japanese-style healthy cafes and lunches. Fashion-conscious natives of Tokyo are turning their attention inward these days – what they eat is as important as what they wear. Several years ago, the Tokyo fashion slave wouldn’t have been caught dead dancing…

  • TAB Is My Guide

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    I am so thankful for the launch of Tokyo Art Beat. I’m using it pretty much exclusively to plan the things I want to check out during Designer’s Week, Designers Block, and Swedish Style. Here are some notes I took this morning (and everything listed here is free, except the “Container Ground” in Odaiba that…

  • Label

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    Stefano Guerrini is a reader of this site, and he’s also the fashion director for a very beautiful magazine called LABEL, which bills itself as “the Italian style magazine for international dreamers.” I’ve read the two most recent issues, and I’m definitely liking it. Presented in a bilingual format (Italian/English), it features all sorts of…

  • Machine=Eros Project

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    As part of Designer’s Week 2004, EX’Realm is hosting the “Machine=Eros Project” by Yamaha. The name Yamaha stands for both musical equipment (Yamaha Corporation) and motorbikes and boats (Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.). The first project to take place at the renewed Ex’ Realm in Harajuku is hosted by both companies, and features performances by Ujino…

  • Graffiti in Sakuragicho

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    From the latest edition of the “Tokyo Initiator’s Diary” at REALTOKYO: After seeing the “Empty Garden 2” exhibition at Watari Museum I buy several books on graffiti at the “On Sundays” bookshop. From there I proceed to Sakuragicho to inspect some real graffities. There are a lot in this area, and some of them are…

  • Planning for Design

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    I was was planning on writing some sort of guide for the various design events taking place this week (Designer’s Week has already started, or at least the container exhibition in Odaiba has, and Designer’s Block starts tomorrow). Not really a guide, but more of a plan of what I plan on seeing with Jesper,…

  • Maru Biru Art Event 4

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    Another pic from the recent Maru Biru art event.

  • Tokyo Art Beat

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    The biggest thing to have happened while I was experiencing my domain problems was the launch of Tokyo Art Beat, a new indispensable site for anyone who’s into art/design events happening in Tokyo, and best of all, in English! Your TV has 12 channel, Tokyo has over 300 art venues. Tokyoartbeat.com offers the most comprehensive…

  • F52

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    Sure, I’m posting about a bookshop in Montreal, but there’s a reason. F52 shop owner Frederik is a reader of this site, and he contacted me a while back about trying to order some design books from the Gas series. He’s opened a very nice store, pictured above, that acts as a gallery (the first…