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Month: March 2009
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Furin Wind Chimes
“Furin” was an installation by Toyo Ito and Takram Design Engineering that appeared last year at Okamura Design Space R. Designboom posts more details.
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Tramnesia: Depot
Tramnesia’s terrific “Working” series of short video reports on independent businesses continues with yet another Tokyo-related company — previously Knee High Media and Postalco — this time the Depot Cycle & Recycle bike shop in Ichikawa. Depot Cycle & Recycle is a bicycle shop in Ichikawa, an eastern suburb of Tokyo a little more than…
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Orderly Conduct
Photographer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad has been taking photos in public spaces where everyone is doing something in common. He calls the project “Orderly Conduct,” and the photo above is part of the series he took in Tokyo.
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Uniqlo Love
Year after year, I tend to have a love-hate relationship with Uniqlo. I won’t get into it, but right now I’m in a love period, having picked up quite a few things in the past week or so. First up is the latest “Designers Invitation Project” collaboration, this time with Opening Ceremony. I’m certainly glad…
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12Pixels
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I may be obsessed with my iPhone, but there is still some cool stuff happening with “regular”‘ phones, and Ivan Poupyrev and Karl D.D. Willis‘ 12Pixels projects — created at Sony CSL — actually makes me wish I had one. The app lets you draw and share pixel-based images, all done through your phone’s touch…
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Uniqlo Parka Style CM
I’ve seen it countless times on TV, but I still get a kick out of the latest Uniqlo CM — I especially like the bit with NOMOTO Karia singing Readymade style.
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Tokyo Flashmob
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Want to participate in a flashmob? Details below on the one happening in Shinjuku this Sunday (March 22). With this event we want to criticize the surveillance society which takes away our ability to trust in others. [Rule number 1] Bring a book of your choice, and read it out lout. It doesn’t matter whether…