Month: June 2009
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TABuzz with Yosuke Kurita
I’ve yet to highlight TAB‘s recently launched interview feature, but better late than never. What is TABuzz? Tokyo Art Beat invites movers and thinkers from the Tokyo art world to contribute to this column. Our guest bloggers give their recommendations and thoughts on who to watch and what to see. The latest one is with…
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The Death of Mario
I definitely need to catch this: “The Death of Mario,” an exhibition from artist Koshi Kawachi that tries to capture aspects from the Mario series. It runs at the Lower Akihabara gallery until June 26. Via Offworld.
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Gundam at Night
I’m sure you’ve all heard about and seen the giant 1:1 replica Gundam statue in Odaiba, but have you seen lit up at night? Very nice gallery here, courtesy of Pink Tentacle.
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Newspaper to New Paper Project
Very cool project from Dentsu (from Designboom): Newspaper to New Paper Project from Dentsu Tokyo for Ichida Garden. Old newspapers were overprinted to provide wrapping for fruit and veg sold by a street vendor. It was one of the winners in the Packaging category of the recently announced D&AD’s Yellow Pencil awards.
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Interactive Web Trend Map
You’ve bought the poster, next up, an online interactive version of Information Architect‘s Web Trend Map, set to launch July 14. Also nice to hear that Craig is collaborating on the project.
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Honda Motocompo
Man, how awesome was the Honda Motocompo. Designboom posts a series of images from an original sales catalogue that dates back to the early eighties.
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The Bad Business of Anime
More depressing news on the state of the Japanese anime industry from Matt Alt.