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Month: November 2007

  • GYRE by Artless

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    Shun Kawakami of artless is behind the art direction and interface design of the rather nice website for the newly opened GYRE shopping center on Omotesando.

  • Blue Note Street Design Contest

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    Patrick Benny sends me word of a new design contest to help celebrate the release of the club jazz compilation, BLUE NOTE STREET (more details, and track list, here). The contest is done with Design Garden (a sort of Japanese Cafe Press), and it’s for the design of a t-shirt. You have to live in…

  • Sayaka Yagi

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    Since it seems to be turning into a photo day here, let’s add another one, this time photographer Sayaka Yagi. Thanks, Max!

  • Photography by Curtis Christophersen

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    Some more great Tokyo-based photography found on Flickr, this time from Curtis Christophersen. I think that what I especially like from these photos, and the ones from Sean Wood, is that people are the focus of the shots, which is something I tend to shy away from.

  • Photography by Sean Wood

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    I don’t know Sean Wood, but as I always do when people add me as a contact on Flickr, I go and check their photos out of curiosity, and I have to say that I really like what I saw on Sean’s account. He has a website listed, 50mm, but it’s still just a placeholder.

  • PauseTalk Vol. 15 (CGBG Edition)

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    Big thanks to everyone who came to the special edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 15) we had this past Monday, to celebration the “Creative GBG in Tokyo” event at Cafe Pause. It was far removed from how things usually go, with a few presentations (special thanks to Jesper, Julia, Martin, and Marxy for participating) and not…

  • 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.