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Month: August 2006

  • Shin Tanaka

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    Shin Tanaka makes paper craft, but it’s the first time I’ve seen someone do it with an injection of street style/art. You can even download templates of some of his designs directly from his site. Link via Gridskipper.

  • Ikebukuro's Doujinshi Scene

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    WIRED NEWS has a piece up on Otome Road, that area in Ikebukuro where girls flock for their hit of doujinishi.

  • Cornelius’ Music

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    Momus reviews Cornelius‘ new single, “Music,” which goes on sale August 23. Unlike him, I quite like the track, and find it to be more melodic than anything that was on POINT. You can watch the video for the track here.

  • Ingo Maurer

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    At the Tokyo Opera City gallery to see the Ingo Maurer show. I’ll then go to the ICC.

  • Sake 8

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    Designboom covers the current exhibition at the Kestner Museum in Hanover that examines the re-branding of Sake 8 by designer Konstantin Grcic. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Bottle Blogging

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    Yuki starts blogging what she’s drinking, and where, carefully documenting both in pictures.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    CASA BRUTUS (78) takes on “Traditional Japanese Architecture and Design,” with a fantastic look at all the basics of traditional craftsmanship. Ever better is the fact that it’s one of their bilingual issues — meaning the cover feature gets translated in English — and they’ve really gone all out on creating a very attractive layout…

  • The Cost of Exhibiting

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    If anyone remembers the Tokyo Design Week review piece I wrote last year for THE JAPAN TIMES, you’ll recall that I touched on the difficulties that independent designers face as they have to deal with high exhibiting fees. Case in point (from designer Sonia Chow’s blog): One of the organizers at 100% Design Tokyo, Hiromi…