Month: June 2007

  • PingMag: Your Guide to Rainy Season

    PingMag has a round-up of fun ideas for the upcoming rainy season.

  • Interior Lifestyle 2007 Coverage at MoCo Loco

    As I mentioned in my moblog post yesterday, I was at Tokyo Big Sight for the “Interior Lifestyle” show, covering it for MoCo Loco. Looks like the photos I took will start appearing there later today. I was quite impressed with what I saw, and the scale felt much larger than what I usually see…

  • Hiroshi Tsunoda’s Design Code

    Cool Hunting covers Barcelona-based designer Hiroshi Tsunoda’s recently launched lighting brand, Design Code.

  • SANAA Houses

    Actar previews the upcoming SANAA HOUSES book. Sanaa’s housing projects, both finished (House A, S House, House in a Plum Grove, Small House and Moriyama House), and unfinished projects (Flower House, Garden & House, Seijo Apartments, Ichikawa Apartments, House in China and Eda Apartments). SANAA’s architecture embraces complexities within deceptively simple appearances. It has many…

  • Issey Miyake Site Update

    The ISSEY MIYAKE brand updates its site with some new movies, including “A-POC INSIDE” by Masahiko Sato. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Odo by Sony

    As Core77 reports, Sony has introduced a new line of products under the Odo moniker. The line bypasses batteries or plugs, with every item getting its juice from the human body. Only prototypes, sure, but an interesting look into a sustainable future.

  • Interior Lifestyle

    At Tokyo Big Sight for the Interior Lifestyle show, which I’m covering for MoCo Loco.

  • Virtual Cyber Megacity Tokyo

    Anime News Network reports that Studio 4C is working on the design of a virtual world called “Cyber Megacity: Tokyo’s 0th Ward.” SBI Holdings has announced that Studio 4°C (Animatrix, Tekkonkinkreet) will work on the overall “grand design” and city design of a virtual world called “Cyber Megacity: Tokyo’s 0th Ward.” Tokyo’s 0th Ward is…

  • DIVVY/dual Bilingual Videos

    The TABlog has posted a few subtitled videos from the DIVVY/dual symposium, “Is Open Source Art Possible,” that was held in September of last year.

  • PingMag: Furi Furi

    PingMag takes a look at the character design work of Tokyo-based Furi Furi by interviewing founder and creative director Mr. Tei.