Month: May 2007
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Terunobu Fujimori at Tokyo Opera City
[Insert in personal agenda] In need of seeing before July 1: “Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori and ROJO” at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. It would seem others have enjoyed it.
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This Week at Gridskipper
Live at Tokyo Midtown You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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On Design for May 2007
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This month’s edition of my “On Design” column is in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and online here. In it, I cover Shunji Yamanaka’s OVO, the DateBlock calendar, the Dokodemo VAPE No. 1 NEO, Graf and Flame’s DECO LAMP, and SANAA’s Fruit Basket tea service for Alessi.
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Nadiff in Aoyama to Close
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As spotted in Momus’ latest post, the Nadiff store in Aoyama will close by the end of the month, to be re-opened later this year in a new location and under a new name. From their website: Artshop NADiff which celebrated the tenth anniversary in March at Omote-sando, Tokyo, will be closed by the end…
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Alakazam
Boicozine highlights the Alakazam label, made up of illustrators Will Sweeney and Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). I remember when they had launched at Beams T last year, but hadn’t heard anything since. The same post also mentions that Silas is now going to focus solely on its operations in Japan.