Month: December 2007
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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.
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PingMag MAKE
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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…
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PingMag: Karan Koron
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PingMag covers the “Karan Koron — A Geta Art Exhibition,” recently held in LA and produced by graffiti veteran MakeOne.
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On Design for December 2007
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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.
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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.”…
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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!)
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Chihiro Tanaka’s Onduler and Sakulight
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Dezeen covers two new lights from Chihiro Tanaka: Onduler and Sakulight (pictured above).