Month: December 2007

  • This Week from MoCo Loco

    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering new lights from Chihiro Tanaka, Izumi Okayasu‘s “Kaleidoscope” exhibition, and the latest Plusminuszero products to go on sale.

  • PingMag MAKE

    What a nice Christmas present: PingMag has just launched a sister site, PingMag MAKE. I’ll let Yes! Communications‘ Tom Vincent give you the lowdown: PingMag MAKE is the sister site to PingMag. We use an interview format to put the spotlight on a wide range of people active in rural areas. We document the voices…

  • A Morning in West Tokyo

    I haven’t been writing much about my cycling adventures of late, but I do go out pretty much every morning for a spin in the city. I recently picked up a Thermal Ride Jacket and Insulated Cycling Gloves from Mont-Bell, and so the cold weather isn’t at all an issue. I also wanted to pick…

  • PingMag: Karan Koron

    PingMag covers the “Karan Koron — A Geta Art Exhibition,” recently held in LA and produced by graffiti veteran MakeOne.

  • On Design for December 2007

    This month’s edition of my “On Design” column is in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and can be read online here. In it, I cover the new MoMa Design Store, Kashiwa Sato’s collection of new year cards for Japan Post, the Arch cat toy by Collex, the Dyson/ISSEY MIYAKE “The Wind” collaboration, and Sharp‘s PLC adapters.

  • No Magazine, No Life

    MAGAZINE PICK-UP ALERT: It didn’t take long before I bought a copy of the new issue of TITLE (96). With a cover sporting the words “2008: A Magazine Odyssey,” you just know I had to pick it up. It’s a terrific look at the world of magazines, with the feature claiming “No Magazine, No Life.”…

  • More Trouble for the iPhone in Japan

    BUSINESS WEEK takes a look at the challenges Apple faces in bringing the iPhone to Japan. I still think that no current handset in Japan even comes close to matching the iPhone’s innovative, and user-friendly, interface. (Thanks, Max!)

  • Chihiro Tanaka’s Onduler and Sakulight

    Dezeen covers two new lights from Chihiro Tanaka: Onduler and Sakulight (pictured above).