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Month: December 2007

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Harajuku Style Shopping Goes Global Rolling Stone Cafe Maruse Design Shop MUJI Xmas You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Upgrading the Bike

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    I mentioned the other day that I was in love with my MUJI bike again, and that’s because I finally went out and got some upgrades done. For the past few months it had been riding horribly, to a point where I didn’t really like going far with it, and my plans to meet up…

  • INFOBAR2 Invades Ikebukuro Station

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    Lots of ads for the Naoto Fukasawa-designed INFOBAR2 mobile phone at Ikebukuro station.

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    A few things happening tonight (December 7), first off the opening of the “PROTOTYPE” exhibition at Keiji Ashizawa Design‘s new office space, from 19:00 to 21:00. All participating designers should be there, so a good chance to talk design with an interesting bunch. Photographer Yuri Manabe, who did the photo work on the TOKYO LOOK…

  • Business in Japan According to the Economist

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    The feature on business in Japan that I mentioned last week, appearing in the current issue of THE ECONOMIST, can now be read online. Via Tokyomango.

  • Japanese Artist Round-Up

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    The last couple of days of posts at StartDrawing.org cover a few Japanese artists, including Yoko Tanji (pictured above), Makiko Sugawa (I remember seeing an exhibition of her work last year), Shingo Shimizu, and Aya Kakeda.

  • PingMag: Yuji Moriguchi

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    PingMag covers the erotic art of Yuji Moriguchi. If you like what you see, then head on over to Span Art Gallery for the his “Alice Fantasy” exhibition, until December 15.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Masami Takahashi‘s Calendar Cube, Makoto Hirahara‘s Bright Blinds, and the upcoming “PROTOTYPE” exhibition.