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Month: October 2007

  • Creative GBG Site Is Up

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    The site for Creative GBG — the event we will be hosting at Cafe Pause this year in collaboration with Swedish Style — is now up. More info will be added over the next week or so, but for now you’ll already find details on participating creators.

  • REC YOU

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    REC YOU is a new online campaign for the latest SONY Walkman — it uses the One Seg function, popular these days on mobile phones. It looks like you can send a portrait — you’ll find more details at the REC YOU site — which will then be used later on as the project progresses.…

  • Tote Bags by CINA

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    CINA are a Tokyo-based New Zealand design collective, and they send me word that they’ll be a part of this year’s Designboom Mart at 100% Design Tokyo, selling tote bags like the one pictured in this post — nine designs will be available.

  • PaperBird

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    Remember those SpeakerDog papercrafts I obsessed over back in August? It seems like Josh McKible — friend of PauseTalk — also really liked the idea, and so he decided to do something with it, incorporating his own obsession with birds. The result? PaperBirds, which you download, print, and cut! He already has a few designs…

  • UTGP 08

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    If you haven’t already, you still have time to cast your vote (until October 24) for your favorite t-shirt design at the UT Grand Prix 08.

  • Sick Days

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    I’ve just been through one of the worse weekends ever. A trip to Osaka mixed with a nasty cold — my first cold of the year though — means that I’m behind on my mail correspondence, promised posts, etc. I’m getting better, but still not back to normal, so it’s going to take time to…

  • PingMag: Japanese Packaging Design #4

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    Bianca Beuttel continues her series on Japanese packaging design over at PingMag, this time covering Good Design Award winners for functionality and eco concerns.

  • Tokyo Camouflage

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    A reader sent me a link to this article, and I’m having trouble believing THE NEW YORK TIMES would publish something like this. Camouflage vending machine costumes? Come on, this is fodder for tabloids or even THE ONION.