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Month: April 2007

  • Kansai Art Beat

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    Kansai Art Beat launches, doing for the Kansai region what TAB has been doing quite successfully in Tokyo for a couple of years now. Last December, TAB’s non-profit organisation Gadago entered into an agreement with the Flanders Center, a non-profit foundation based in Osaka to provide them technical/design support for the launch of Kansai Art…

  • Artek by Shigeru Ban

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    Dezeen has posted a few photos from the Shigeru Ban-designed Artek installation in Milan.

  • TABlog on 21_21 Design Sight

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    TABlog has a review up for 21_21 Design Sight‘s inaugural exhibition. You’ll probably recognize the photos, taken from my Tokyo Midtown Flickr photoset.

  • TB.Pensar 004

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    What is TB.Pensar? Find out here. Is it just me, or has everyone in the world picked this month to come to Tokyo for various projects. It’s been a rather hectic month all around, and I’m definitely looking forward to the upcoming Golden Week holiday to re-energize and re-focus — I will also need to…

  • The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Art Fair Tokyo

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    TABlog’s Ashley was not a big fan of the recent Art Fair Tokyo, and Tetsuya Ozaki’s latest “Out of Tokyo” column offers up a different, much more positive, take.

  • Blogging in Japan Is #1

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    From an editorial in today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES: Japanese, a recent survey found, is the most common language for blogging. With 70-some million blogs now in all languages, Japan edged out even English and Chinese for the top spot of blog language. A third of all blogs in the world, or virtual world,…

  • Rinko Kikuchi in the JT

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    THE JAPAN TIMES profiles Rinko Kikuchi, who made her American film debut in last year’s BABEL.

  • DTO at PingMag

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    PingMag interviews one of my favorite graphic design units, Dainippon Type Organization.