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Month: April 2008

  • More from Yoshioka for Swarovski

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    Dezeen posts additional photos of Tokujin Yoshioka‘s work on the new Swarovski Ginza store, that opened this week. Yoshioka will also be contributing to Swarovski’s installation at the Milano Salone later this month.

  • TABlog: Art Fair Tokyo

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    Ashley Rawlings interviews Misa Shin, Executive Director of Art Fair Tokyo 2005 (this year’s edition takes place this weekend), on TABlog. The interview is an excerpt from Chin Music Press’ ART SPACE TOKYO, which goes on sale next week. Tonight I’m heading to the opening of the 101TOKYO art fair. Can’t wait! Update: And here’s a…

  • iGoogle Museum

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    Following last month’s introduction of downloadable banners for your iGoogle homepage, Japanese online shopping network ZOZO makes it easy, and fun, to browse through all of the available banners in a slick flash interface that simulates a trip to the museum. Via Imprint Talk.

  • Bookoff Offers to Pay Manga Creators

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    As reported by Anime News Network: Bookoff Corporation, Japan’s largest used bookstore chain, has reportedly offered to pay 100 million yen (about US$1 million) to the Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century, The Japan Writers’ Association, and other creators’ associations. According to the newspapers who first learned of this offer on March…

  • Neojaponisme: Root of Otaku

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    What exactly was the importance of Akio Nakamori’s new column that appeared in a little-read weekly soft-core porno comic (MANGA BURIKKO) back in 1983? “Otaku no Kenkyu” marked the first use of a word in a context we now know so well. Matt Alt translates that column for Neojaponisme.

  • Urawaza

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    Lisa Katayama’s book, URAWAZA: SECRET EVERYDAY TIPS AND TRICKS FROM JAPAN has just been released. You may know Lisa from her Tokyomango blog, but she’s also a contributor to the io9 blog, and writes for WIRED as well. It was actually a piece she wrote for WIRED, on the urawaza phenomenon, that spawned the idea…

  • FTC and Artless

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    I haven’t ridden a skateboard since my early teens, but man, these boards designed by Shun Kawakami of Artless sure make me want to give it another go, or at least just own one. You can get them at the FTC Tokyo Store. More photos from the release exhibition here.

  • ABSENT CAFE

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    Head to the Marunouchi Building to check out Assistant‘s Megumi Matsubara and Hiroi Ariyama’s “ABSENT CAFE” installation, part of “Marunouchi Art Weeks 2008. For Marunouchi Art Weeks, Megumi Matsubara & Hiroi Ariyama (assistant) present “ABSENT CAFE”, an installation mutating a cafe in MarunouchiBuilding into ambiguous absence using a special kind of film. The installation is…

  • Dinky-Bloc

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    Let me point you to Dinky-Bloc, an indie publisher based in Cape Town, and their first release, THE KINEMA POST, by author Hilary Maraney. It’s linked to media brand Chocolate Cake Productions. You’ll notice the use of Japanese on the site, and according to Ben from Chocolate Cake, “the book is soon to be promoted…