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Month: November 2007

  • PingMag: Mint Designs

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    PingMag interviews Tokyo-based fashion label (and beyond) Mint Designs‘ Nao Yagi and Hokuto Katsui. Also, catch some of the recent PingMag coverage of Tokyo Design Week, including a look at DesignTide’s “Tide Think” and the “Treasured Trash” project, as well as Swedish Style.

  • Kubittake

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    A recent piece by artist Yuka Yamaguchi, part of a show you can catch right now at the Compound Gallery in Portland. I’m really excited that we’ll be showing some of her works at Cafe Pause in January (and I think we may be able to get her in on that month’s edition of PauseTalk…

  • Tokyo Design Week Dispatches

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    In case you missed them, I wrote a few Tokyo Design Week dispatches for Neojaponisme: one on DesignTide, one on the big Pecha Kucha Night event, and then a one on 100% Design Tokyo and Tokyo Designer’s Week.

  • Cheer Girls

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    Lovely illustration contributed by Audrey that appeared on Neojaponisme last week.

  • Real Drive

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    Finally, another anime series to get excited about: REAL DRIVE, by Production I.G and Shirow Masamune (GHOST IN THE SHELL). The show will start airing in April 2008 on NTV. AICN has an overview.

  • PauseTalk (Creative GBG Edition) Tonight!

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    Just a reminder that tonight is the special edition PauseTalk I wrote about the other day, to celebrate our “Creative GBG in Tokyo” event at Cafe Pause. Doors open at 19:00, and a shortened version of PauseTalk will start at 20:00 — it will include a talk about the event by me and Jesper, and…

  • Never Trust a Man in a Suit

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    Oh, what the hell, might as well keep on going with the photos of me. Just before we started the radio show on Saturday, Ian — Neojaponisme designer extraordinaire — had Jeremy — he of the PKN gallery — take some shots of me, Marxy, and Ian for the Neojaponisme profile page. I do like…

  • Looking Like I’m Looking

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    In that previously mentioned gallery, you’ll find the above photo of me, I think taken during Jesper’s presentation, which I quite like.

  • Gallery from the Biggest PechaKucha Night Ever

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    Missed last Thursdays’s biggest PechaKucha Night ever (I’ve heard attendance was over 2000)? Photographer Jeremy Lanig is sharing a gallery of photos he took throughout the evening.

  • The Shadow

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    Guess whose shadow! Photo by Paul Baron taken during the Radio OK Fred sessions.