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Month: May 2009

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    This week’s Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, covering Nosigner‘s AWA line, Yurina Kira’s wooden brooches, 16A Architects‘ candle shade, and Ryohei Yoshiyuki‘s Level Stool.

  • Ikebukuro Sighting

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    Yeah, that’s me in the middle — here’s a larger version. The photo was taken last week by Tim as he spotted me on the escalator leaving the Fukutoshin platform in Ikebukuro. He saw me and quickly pulled out his camera, to which I screamed: “Analog!”

  • Pop Goes the Anime Bubble

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    Just the other day I posted on how I haven’t been following anime like I used to, and then today comes a post on Japan Probe illustrating that, apparently, the “anime bubble has burst.” And as a follow-up to my anime post, I have watched the first episode of each series. Verdict? I can’t see…

  • Tokyo Art Map Love

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    Congrats to the AQ crew for getting the Tokyo Art Map series featured in this year’s edition of the Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets book. In other map news, the new one (May/June) just came out, and should be out in the wild.

  • My Famicase Exhibition

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    The very cool retro game shop Meteor in Kichijoji is again hosting an exhibition of dreamed-up cases for Nintendo’s original Famicom (NES) console, “My Famicase Exhibition.” It runs until May 31, but all cases have also been posted on the event’s site.

  • Juice Packaging by Fukasawa

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    I know I’m late on this — I spotted it a while back at CScout Japan, and then at a few other sites, but forgot to do a post on it. Naoto Fukasawa designs a few juice boxes — the Takara Banana one is the only one that has made it to stores so far.

  • Last Week at MoCo Loco

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    Just realized that I forgot to link to my Tokyo post at MoCo Loco last week. It covered more Milan-shown items, including works from Toshiyuki Kita, Arihiro Miyake, Shigeru Ban, and Jin Kuramoto.

  • Audrey Kawasaki Exhibition

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    Artist Audrey Kawasaki has an exhibition that starts tomorrow (running until May 16) at the Space Yui gallery in Aoyama, and she previews the works in this LiveJournal entry. Via Boing Boing.

  • Venom Palette in Tokyo

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    Swedish illustrator Daniel Johansson, otherwise known as Venom Palette, will have a show this coming week (May 8-14) at the Design Festa Gallery in Harajuku. Some of you may remember that I featured a piece Daniel created for PKN Gothenburg a while back over at PechaKucha Daily.

  • Higashiya Closes, Still Reviewed

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    How strange: the beautiful teahouse and sweets shop in Nakameguro Higashiya is about to close its doors (not sure on the date, but soon), yet it gets a “recommendation” post on Cool Hunting, with no mention of said closing.