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Month: June 2008

  • 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.

  • Amusement

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    If anyone sees a copy of Amusement, a new French gaming magazine, in Tokyo at a reasonable price, please-please let me know. I really want to pick this up — comes off as Monocle doing games — but buying the issue from their site is close to $40 (to Japan).

  • The End of WaiWai

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    Foreign fans of tabloid journalism in Japan will be quite saddened by the news that The Mainichi Daily News has decided to end the popular WaiWai column. More from Marxy over at META no TAME.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Cocco’s Branco bench, Michiko Fukuoka’s TERU-TERU wind chimes, Flame’s Cappuccino Light, and the “Japanese Design at the Milano Salone 2008” exhibition at the Tokyo Design Center. For the exhibition, Keiji will be participating, showing his Gravity Light and a new version of his…

  • Nendo’s Office in Metropolis

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    My good friend Brian has a piece in the current issue of design magazine Metropolis on Nendo‘s office in Meguro. You can read it online here.

  • New Tokyo Art Map

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    TAB has released its second Tokyo Art Map, this time adding two new areas (Harajuku and Yokohama), and featuring five event previews. TAB is also looking for some help in spreading the art gospel — if interested, check the following TABlog post for more details.

  • PingMag: Japanese Rooms

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    PingMag interviews artist/designer Sven Ingmar Thies about his book Japanese Rooms, which I mentioned a while back.