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Month: January 2007

  • Atelier Oi at Keiji Ashizawa Design Offices

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    Earlier tonight I attended a presentation by the Swiss design unit Atelier Oi at designer/architect Keiji Ashizawa‘s office — they are collaborating together on a new Swatch Group building in Ginza. It was quite nice to learn more about how Atelier Oi approaches their various projects — all quite diverse — and I also got to…

  • Apple iPhone's Partner in Japan

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    Brad offers his take on what it will take for Apple to bring the iPhone over to Japan, but I have to disagree with him on one point. He only mentions that they would go with either the bands used by DoCoMo or AU, but isn’t it pretty obvious that they’ll be doing business with…

  • Shift 122

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    The new issue of SHIFT (122) is up, featuring a cover interview with Barcelona’s Twopoints.Net.

  • All About Tokyo Cafe Mania

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    I’ve always been a big fan of the Tokyo Cafe Mania site — and it’s where I’ve gone many times to get ideas on what cafe I should try out — but hadn’t visited in a while. I recently did go to the site for a refresher, and was surprised to see that the person…

  • No iPhone in Japan until 2008!

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    Sure, the iPhone is all that and more, and I already feel like I can’t live without one — but no release in Asia until 2008! What!?! Bad, bad, Apple! Jon over at Jonkenpon takes a look at the current iPhone-like offerings in Japan.

  • Nike Black Polka Dots Pack

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    My friend Brad — yes, he of the recent game orgy — decided he just had to get his hands on a pair of the new Nike Black Polka Dots Pack (available as a Woven Air Footscape or Air Force 1), a collaboration with Hiroshi Fujiwara, and he did this past Saturday when they went…

  • The Year in Caramel Corn

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    German designer — and friend of PauseTalk — Bianca Beuttel has created this great Caramel Corn-inspired desktop image for 2007! She was obsessed with the seasonal packaging of the brand — loving the way they represented the various Japanese festivals throughout the year — and so collected them all, with the result being what you…

  • Graniph Design Award.1

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    Add one more t-shirt design competition to an already crowded mix, this one the inaugural “Graniph Design Award.1,” with a top prize of 1 million yen (US$9000), and then 10 second place prizes of 100 000 yen (US$900) — all of these also get commercialized — and then an unlimited amount of 10 000 yen…