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Month: October 2009

  • COOLPIX Projection

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    What do you do with a bunch of COOLPIX S1000PJ cameras, that have the added function of projecting images? If you’re GT Tokyo‘s Naoki Ito, you strap them on the Helicopter Boyz and produce this performance. Via Creative Review.

  • Bunpei Yorifuji

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    Bunpei Yorifuji — he’s the illustrator behind all those Tokyo Metro public service ads — is having his first solo exhibition at gallery @btf, running until October 25. Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • The New MoCo Loco

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    A few weeks ago I wrote that my weekly Tokyo posts for MoCo Loco were going on hiatus, and mentioned that it was because of some upcoming changes to the site. Well, the new MoCo Loco has just launched — have a look!

  • AQ 03

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    I really like this pared-down design for the packaging of the AQ 03 supplement bottle. Via FFFFOUND! Update (16/12/18): The image is no longer available.

  • Good Ideas Salon Tokyo

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    PSFK is hosting a Good Ideas Salon in Tokyo next week (October 20, from 18:30) at Claska, featuring the topic of “Pure Living” and two loaded panels: Marc Alt, Mark Dytham, Peter Rojas, and PSFK founder Piers Fawkes in the first part, followed by Rie Azuma, Jun Ishida, Hiromi Matsubara, and Danny Choo in the…

  • New Website for Wonderwall

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    You may have already heard about it — it’s been making the web rounds — but Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall) has indeed updated his company’s website, enlisting the aid of flash master Yugo Nakamura. The result is quite fun, although I’m never a fan of sites that make you wait while they load. Portfolio sites can…

  • Tokyo Reflections

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    I haven’t seen it myself — hell, I haven’t seen much of anything over the past three months — but Cheungvogl‘s “Tokyo Reflections” interactive installation on the JR platforms at Tokyo station looks like an interesting one. I found out about it through this post over at Designboom — where you can read more details…

  • Kenji Hirata

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    Cool Hunting covers the beautiful work of Japan-born, New York-based artist Kenji Hirata — loving the chromatic explosions. He has a solo show, “The Way Out is the Way In,” opening next week (October 17) at the Joshua Liner Gallery, and running until November 14.

  • Slit Court

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    Slit Court, a residential project in Kyoto by EASTERN Design Office. Via Dezeen.

  • Tube-1

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    Witness the beautiful Tube-1, a vacuum tube amp and speaker system that can be used with iPods (also comes with an FM antenna). It was designed by Tokyo-based Supercent — made up of the duo of Atsushi Koike and Tadahito Ishibashi — and is apparently being commercialized.