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Month: June 2007

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Kyouei, Tokujin Yoshioka’s Kimono Chair, and the No Quiet Mug.

  • Takeji Nakagawa

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    Brian has a post over at Cool Hunting on the very cool sci-fi-inspired wooden toys by craftsman Takeji Nakagawa (or Take-G).

  • Designboom Mart Tokyo 2007

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    Designboom will present its Mart concept again at this year’s edition of 100% Design Tokyo (October 31-November 4), and they’ve now posted info on how you can participate.

  • In Japan, Pantone Is a Brand

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    I never realized that the big push over the past year of Pantone as a brand — seen through totes, stationery, a line of phones for Softbank, and more recently with a t-shirt collection as part of Uniqlo’s UT Project — had been because of a concentrated effort to promote the brand in Japan. Momus…

  • On Design for June 2007

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    This month’s edition of my “On Design” column was in yesterday’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and highlights a few picks from the “Interior Lifestyle” show that took place earlier this month. In it, I cover the latest from METAPHYS, lights from Bunaco, chairs from Suwaru Style, Eau‘s Tree Jacket Hanger, the Waku-Work collection from Nissin, followed…

  • PingMag: Zillion

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    PingMag interviews Tokyo-based David Guarino about his brand Zillion, in which he tries to “revive old Japanese traditions with a quite stylish street wear twist.”

  • New TAB T-Shirts

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    Something has popped up on Paul “Tokyo Art Beat” Baron’s Flickr stream…

  • Prada Gets Animated

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    The upcoming animated sequel APPLESEED: EX MACHINA is set to include a touch of Prada. It turns out that the ferocious-yet-feminine cartoon heroine of this John Woo-produced spectacle will be sporting a very special wardrobe designed by Miuccia Prada herself. Prada_ex_machinaApparently, the queen of streetwise luxury was impressed by the stunning 3-D graphics of the…