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Month: February 2008

  • Shinjuku Struggle

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    What goes on at Shinjuku station, stays at Shinjuku station. Photo by Max Hodges. Update (16/11/13): The photo is no longer available.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering some new colors from Plusminuszero, H Concept‘s Capuc, Karim Rashid‘s bottle design for Finé, and the closing of the Hhstyle.com/Limited shop in Harajuku.

  • Slutty Angels

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    Over at META no TAME, Marxy takes a look at fashion magazine KOAKUMA AGEHA, and the post-kogyaru — and hostess lifestyle — world is revolves around.

  • AOU 2008

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    I attended both days of the AOU 2008 game show at Makuhari Messe (Friday and Saturday), with a few of the photos taken appearing in this Kotaku post, as well as some impressions (and more photos) of STREET FIGHTER 4 — I got a “perfect” win, yes I did! I had an absolute blast at…

  • Patapon Be@rbrick

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    In collaboration with the PSP game PATAPON — which I have to say looks like tons of fun — Medicom is releasing a Patapon Be@rbrick figure featuring art by the same artist behind the game’s graphics, Rolito. The sale date is February 26. Via Kotaku.

  • Suspended Figure by Ayako Maruta

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    Designboom posts a few photos of the new installation at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama. “Suspended Figure” is a light installation by architect Ayako Maruta.

  • Japanese Book Covers

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    Momus takes us on a slideshow tour of Japanese book covers he likes, all taken from Amazon Japan listings.

  • Red Honeycomb Lamp

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    Kyouei‘s Honeycomb Lamp is now available in red — you may have seen that version if you visited the Designboom Mart booth at 100% Design Tokyo last year — from the Designboom Shop.