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Month: July 2007

  • Brockmann Figures

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    Added these two Brockmann figures by Groovisions to my collection the other day. They are part of the Brockmann Extreme series. I picked them up at the Shin-Marunouchi Building, at one of the select shops on the 5th floor.

  • The Missing Spider-Men

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    Added these 2 figures to my Spider-Man gacha-pon collection. I was just missing these 2, so now I have all 6 (except for the secret one — it’s Spider-Man 2099, but they’re selling it for too much). I got them at one of the stores at Nakano Broadway.

  • On Design for July 2007

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    This month’s edition of my “On Design” column was in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and can be read online here. In it, I cover Dainippon Type Organization‘s Toypography, DoCoMo‘s Simpure L2, Kazuhito Ishida‘s Book Hook, and Uniqlo’s Hotels Homes line of home and personal accessories.

  • Badges by Karl Escritt

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    Karl Escritt has made a ton of badges. I want some.

  • Facetime

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    Chris Palmieri has started a new series of font-related interviews for the AQ blog called “Facetime.” As Chris explains, the “series was originally conceived for Japanese designers, to introduce well-crafted Western fonts and the contemporary designers behind them. In the end though, we enjoyed these interviews so much ourselves, we decided to publish them in…

  • Kumiko Okamura’s MDDA

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    Intervall-audio has a new MP3 release, MDDA, by Kumiko Okamura. Read more about the Tokyo-based artist here, where you can also download the album.

  • Feed Fixed

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    It came to my attention (thanks, Roy) that the Feedburner feed to my site, which is the one I link to, wasn’t updating. I guess the problem came from the update I did to my WordPress installation (to 2.2) recently. It’s fixed now, so the feed should be updating as usual.

  • The Plant

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    The Plant are Tokyo-based “Software Mechanics,” as well as the group behind sites like Asoboo and Joblet. The illustrations found on the site are by Hawken King.