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Month: November 2007

  • PaperBird in the Wild

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    I finally had some time to build one of Josh Mckible‘s PaperBirds. This is the FujiBird. I’ll leave this one out in the wilds of Cafe Pause, and add a few more soon.

  • Imprint Handbag Design Contest

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    Imprint Culture Lab is having a handbag design contest, where you send in a design idea (here’s the template) by January 21 of next year, with all submissions then getting posted to the Imprint site and voted on. The winning prize? A certain LV bag.

  • Japanese iPhone Fans Unite!

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    What? There’s no iPhone in Japan? That can’t be, since you can pick up a copy of the iPHONE FAN BOOK at your favorite bookstore. Thanks, Marxy.

  • TAB Party Video Report

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    Couldn’t make it to Tokyo Art Beat‘s 3rd anniversary party at SuperDeluxe last month? No worries, here’s a video look at the evening that was.

  • Torafu

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    Dezeen has a few posts up for some of the projects from the architectural firm Torafu, including the Boolean cafe space pictured above (it says it’s at the University of Tokyo, but I don’t believe it’s THE University of Tokyo), the Nike Air Force 1 shop, and a house in Yokohama. Update: Apologies, it is in…

  • Love Your Earth

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    One of the things I really enjoyed inside the 100% Design Tokyo tent was the “Love Your Earth” competition posters that were on display. It was a nice graphic break from all the intense product porn on display, and there were quite a few pieces that I honestly wish I could purchase. The competition was…

  • W+K Tokyo Lab Is Blogging

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    Time to subscribe to a few new feeds: W+K Tokyo Lab has launched a blog, and so has the W+K Tokyo office.

  • Hitotoki London

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    Hitotoki continues its international tour, this time preparing for a London edition. The site will launch in mid-December, but they are already accepting submissions.

  • More Photos from Radio OK Fred Sessions

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    A few more photos from our recent Radio OK Fred sessions at Celine Omotesandos, taken by photographer Jeremy Lanig. They were all taken on the 3rd night (November 3). Some bad news regarding the recording of the show that night — it seems like something wasn’t connected right, and we got sound from the mics,…

  • Scott Silvey Interviewed

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    Tokyo-based artist Scott Silvey — you may recognize his name from previous PauseTalk participant lists — gets interviewed over at MYARTSPACE.