Jean Snow [.net]

Month: May 2006

  • Spiral Shopping Site

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    Spiral now has an online store, including a section for Spiral Records!

  • Nakata.net Cafe

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    A shot of the newly opened Nakata.net Cafe in Aoyama, on the same spot as the Xbox Lounge from a few months ago. It’s a temporary cafe setup for the duration of the World Cup, with all matches being shown on giant screens inside. Here‘s the post I wrote for Gridskipper last week, and one…

  • More Paul Smith Space

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    I put up two more pics of the new Paul Smith Space store on my Flickr account (here and here, and there’s this one from earlier in the week).

  • Omotesando Future Airport

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    Spotted this temporary event space still under construction at Omotesando Hills earlier in the week. The event, a collaboration between RTA and Narita Airport’s new Terminal 1, was set to start this past Friday, and also includes an exhibition at the Spiral building. Two more pictures here and here.

  • Magazines Are Expensive

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    I was at the Junkudo bookstore earlier today and ended up picking up the latest +81 (32), which is their “Graphics the World Over” issue, as well as the newly relaunched ATMOSPHERE (3) from GAS. I was unpleasantly surprised by what the latter was selling for: 2300 yen. Seems a bit expensive, and it’s double…

  • More Relax Boyz

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    Recently added these two Relax Boys to my collection. The gold version is rare.

  • Graniph Store in Ikebukuro

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    I thought the only Graniph store in Ikebukuro was the one in Parco, but I found this other small shop the other day. It’s near the back entrance of the Mitsukoshi department store, across the street from the Louis Vuitton store. I prefer it to the Parco retail space, since it feels more like a…

  • New Graniph Tees

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    As I mentioned the other day, I picked up a few new tees at Graniph earlier in the week, 3 to be exact. The one to the left is a design by Stephen Crowhurst. He’s a Canadian designer I had gotten in touch about participating in Canadian Style (we ended up not being able to…