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Month: June 2008

  • On Design for June 2008

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    This month’s edition of my “On Design” column was published last week in The Japan Times, and can be read online here. I covered the Tepra Pro label writer, PORE’s Lessev, the Plus Minus Zero Fan, Fumie Shibata’s fumfum magazine holder, and Tokujin Yoshioka’s TO Automatic watch.

  • Nadiff Re-opens Soon

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    For everyone who’s missed the Nadiff art bookshop, it re-opens next week (July 7) in a new art building in Ebisu that will also be the new home of Magical Artroom and G/P Gallery. More details at Art Space Tokyo.

  • Digiki’s Encore Music

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    Digiki has just released a new EP through Tokyo Fun Party, Encore Music. It’s available for download from all the major online stores, and you’ll find the links here.

  • Shantell Martin and Her Wacom

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    Shantell Martin sure likes to use her Wacom tablet when she does live performances and events, so much so that Wacom ended up doing a case study on her. Read the whole interview here.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    This week in my weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco: the Lamp base stand from 100%, Kyouei‘s exhibition and prototypes, and the “Dinner Party of the Dead” exhibition.

  • Tokyo’s Guerilla Gardening

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    Tokyo guerilla gardening in action. Via Boing Boing.

  • Palla Poster Update

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    Over the past few months I know a few of you have asked about the Palla poster that was being offered as part of the “A Swarm of Angels” project. I’d ordered one — same as many of you — back in August of last year. I’ve been in touch with both Palla and Matt…

  • PingMag: RFID Aesthetics

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    PingMag covers RFID aesthetics. This has got to be their most esoteric topic yet, but interesting none the less.

  • July PauseTalk Canceled

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    I’m afraid I’m having to cancel the July edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 23) because, well, I’ll be out of the country. I’m heading to the US and Canada for three weeks — first time back in three years — and even though I was hoping to leave a bit later, circumstances made it impossible. Apologies…

  • Kateigaho International 20

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    The current issue of Kateigaho International (20) has a feature on interior design, kicking off with interviews of Simplicity, Super Potato, Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall), and Akihito Fumita, conducted by the likes of Gelman, Gwenael Nicolas, and Mark Dytham. I contributed the descriptions for these six studios: Tekuto, Torafu, Assistant, Cafe, Graf, and Gift.