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Month: February 2008

  • PingMag: Tomoko Sawada

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    PingMag has a profile on Tomoko Sawada, a Kobe-based artist/photographer whose work I’ve been a fan of for a few years now. I absolutely love her photo booth series, part of which is pictured above.

  • Bingo Was Its Name-o

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    What does Ian Lynam do when he heads back home for the holidays? He gets inspired by the games of bingo he plays with the family, and creates a new “typeface,” which you can get here. Reminds me that I really need to do a full-on presentation of the work he did for me on…

  • The Lobby in Osaka

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    Remember Claska‘s first-floor The Lobby? It’s now turned into a bookstore and cafe located in Osaka. I wonder if the original one will still be part of the new Claska, once it re-opens on March 29.

  • The Return of Smart Girls

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    SMART GIRLS, “the world’s favorite hipster booby magazine” (so says Marxy), is back on newsstands. It had stopped a while back — you may remember the final issue, featuring a pictorial by Karia Nomoto — after founder and photographer Yasumasa Yonehara had a falling out with the publisher, but Yonehara is again involved in this…

  • Relocations

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    The latest TABlog entry runs down a few gallery relocations, including news that the main Nadiff bookstore will re-open in Ebisu, sharing a building with the Magical Artroom gallery. Magical Artroom will move to Ebisu, sharing a building with the Nadiff bookshop, which recently left its well-known location in Harajuku. Taro Nasu Gallery will move…

  • Art Space Tokyo

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    Chin Music Press is at it again, and even though you know I can’t help but show love to them, I’m here to inform you that you WILL be pre-ordering their upcoming release NOW! ART SPACE TOKYO: AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE TOKYO ART WORLD is a guide to twelve of Tokyo’s art spaces by…

  • Shantell Martin on Music Japan TV

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    Tokyo-based illustrator Shantell Martin is everywhere these days, the latest being in a report currently airing on Music Japan TV. You can watch it online here.

  • 86th Art Directors Club Annual Awards

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    I stopped by the Creation Gallery G8 in Ginza the other day for the “86th Art Directors Club Annual Awards” exhibition. I always enjoy going to this to see all of the interesting ad work and TV commercials I don’t see here in Japan, and this year I really liked watching the winning works in…

  • Bape Nitendo DS Lite

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    Having to deal with empty stores (in Tokyo at least), I guess Bape has to do what it can to sell some products. Everybody loves the DS, right? Enter the Bape-branded Nintendo DS Lite. Via Kotaku. Update: If the Bape-branded Nintendo DS Lite doesn’t interest you, then how about a DS co-branded with the Honeyee magazine…

  • Manga Museum in Kyoto

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    THE JAPAN TIMES covers the Manga Museum in Kyoto. I agree with Imprint Talk, why isn’t there one in Tokyo?