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Month: November 2005

  • Tokyo Art & Design Pool on Flickr

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    Paul of Tokyo Art Beat has started a new photo pool on Flickr called, appropriately enough, “Tokyo Art & Design.” The TABlog now has a Flickr badge that streams pics from the pool, and it looks great. So join in, and start adding your pics! I’ll be be doing so sometime soon. Pictured above, from…

  • The Latest Wonderwall Designs

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    Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall recently updated his site with new pics for various projects. Here are some quick links: United Arrows Nagoya D.Office The Tokyo Tower Sea Sky Guest Rooms and Lounge LOOPWHEELER Darjeeling Days Marunouchi BAPEXCLUSIVE Harrods Brompton BAPE CAFE!? Also, the shop section of the site has a new item in the “Grand…

  • 3 Trees Make a Forest

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    A heads-up to any readers in the LA area on a show that I wouldn’t mind seeing. “3 Trees Make a Forest” brings the illustrative works of Tokyo-based Tadahiro Uesugi, Enrico Casarosa, and Ronnie Del Carmen (these last two also happen to work at Pixar). The show will take place at Nucleus Gallery, starting November…

  • Rampo Jigoku

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    Tadanobu Asano (you know, that guy who just happens to be my favorite actor) has a new film out (started this past Saturday), RAMPO JIGOKU. It’s only playing in two theaters though: Cine Saison Shibuya and Theatre Shinjuku. Update: Patrick went to see the film, and offers this short review.

  • Tokyo Design Week Pictures

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    You may be wondering why I haven’t posted any pictures from the various design events of this past week. Well, I took tons (300-400), and gave the exclusive to MoCo Loco, so that’s where you’ll be able to see them. They’re being posted over a few of days — here are links to part 1…

  • I.D. on Japanese Design

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    The new issue of I.D. (November 2005) is all about Japanese design. They list the content here (and you can order it here). I contributed to a piece on Japanese design magazines called “How the Other Half Publishes.” Momus also contributed pieces, including one on Cosmic Wonder (“At Work in the Field Called Fashion”) and…

  • Olafur Eliasson

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    From Tropolism: As you may know, I do work from time to time with Olafur Eliasson. I get all of the invitations to his openings, wherever they may be. They are so numerous, it is impossible to keep up. However, this one is of note: his first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum. Olafur…

  • The PechaKucha Trilogy at PingMag

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    PingMag covers this past week’s Tokyo Design Week-related “PechaKucha” events at SuperDeluxe. Parts 1 and 2 here, part 3 here.