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Month: October 2009

  • Design Festa Vol. 30

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    Design Festa returns to Tokyo Big Sight in just over a week (October 24-25) for an amazing 30th edition, which also marks the 15th anniversary of the event. Expect over 8,500 artists/designers to fill up the space, with tons to see and pick up.

  • The Shinjuku Summit

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    Patrick Macias has a new episode of his Hot Tears of Shame podcast, and fans of otaku culture will not want to miss it. “Otaku Internationale: The Shinjuku Summit” brings together Patrick #1, Patrick #2 (that would be The Otaku Encyclopedia‘s Patrick W. Galbraith), PhD student Renato Rivera, and Otaku2 co-founder Adrian Lozano, covering a…

  • Ensenada

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    Ian Lynam has designed a new font, now available for purchase at MyFonts. Ensenada is “based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico.”

  • Tokyo Realtime Akihabara

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    It’s been a long time coming, but White Rabbit Press has finally released the second volume in its Tokyo Realtime audio tour series, this time covering Akihabara. The tour is currently available as a digital download — for $12, with a sample available on the official site — and the full print package will be…

  • Nendo and Moleskine

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    Nendo is joins the “Detour” Moleskine exhibition — running October 16 to November 4 at the MoMA Design Store in Tokyo — with the piece pictured above. Commenting on the contribution, Nendo explains: By cutting the pages of the sketchbook to create a three-dimensional landscape, we wanted to show the way that sketches function in…

  • IID’s Fifth Anniversary Party

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    The Ikejiri Institute of Design (IID) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary in style, and Tokyo Art Beat co-founder Paul Baron has the pics to prove it. It goes without saying, but I wish I could have attended.

  • Good Design Award 2009

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    The results for this year’s edition of the Good Design Award were recently announced, and you can have a look at all the winning products through the nifty Good Design Finder. Have a look at the top 15 here, which includes this summer’s giant Gundam statue in Odaiba (now sadly gone), and the Panasonic Massage…

  • Photos from Senseware

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    Couldn’t make it to last month to the 21_21 Design Sight”s “Tokyo Fiber ’09 Senseware” exhibition? TABlog has you covered with a gallery of photos from the show’s opening.