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Month: April 2009

  • AU + Yayoi Kusama

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    Am I the only person in the blogosphere who doesn’t care for Yayoi Kusama‘s new collaboration mobile phone for AU? Do you really want a phone that looks like it has a disease? I do dig the AC Adapter Midori that comes with it though (below). Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • Koganecho at Night

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    Some beautiful night photography of Koganecho (in Yokohama) at night, by Katsuyoshi Ueno.

  • Hana Table

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    Shige Hasegawa‘s Hana table, designed using an origami technique, and to be shown at the Salone Satellite in Milan later this month. Via FreshMoCo.

  • Kanpyo Udon

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    Great package design work from Nosigner on a new brand of udon noodles, Kanpyo Udon, set to go on sale in June. As Spoon & Tamago’s Johnny describes them, the noodles are ” a new type of udon that use fiber-enhancing dried gourd shavings as an addition to the typically flour-only recipe.”

  • OK Fred Uniform

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    OK, consider me jealous. Pictured, OK Fred ‘s Yoshi, sporting an emblazoned jacket he received last week as a birthday present.

  • Commenting Fixed

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    Commenting should be back up. After being down for a week, it’s thanks to my constant tech lifesaver, Patrick, who suggested I take a look at the site’s database. That was indeed the problem — the comments table had crashed, and was in need of repair.

  • Chocolate Cake Blogs

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    Cape Town-based — but Japan loving — production company Chocolate Cake is now blogging. To find out more about the Japan connection, see this post from last year.

  • Suming Up Tokyo Art Week

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    Antonin (Digiki) — one of the founders of 101TOKYO — gives his take on the art week (101TOKYO, Art Fair Tokyo) that was.