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Month: October 2009

  • Zen Foto Gallery

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    Zen Foto Gallery is a newly opened space in Shibuya that specializes in Chinese photography. TABlog interviews the owner of the gallery, Mark Peason. The inaugural exhibition is Liu Zheng’s “Dream Shock” (pictured above) — it runs until October 13.

  • Chiso Memo Block

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    The Tokyo Art Beat online store is now selling the colorful Chiso Memo Block by Kenjiro Sano.

  • DoubleTwist Big Brother Ad

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    While on the topic of Remo, here’s also an ad he recently produced for doubleTwist, inspired by Apple’s classic 1984 ad.

  • Remo Camerota’s Polaroid Portraits

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    Remember Remo Camerota‘s “Polaroid Portraits” project? I previously featured some shots he took during PauseTalks — here, and then here with me. Remo has finally had a chance to give the project a proper exhibition, with the opening happening this past Saturday in New York, as part of the Mark Batty Publisher Urban Arts Fest…

  • CNNGo

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    Chances are you’ve already noticed the tweets and a few posts last week, but yes, I was very happy to see the new CNNGo site go in public beta mode last week. Although it may come off at first as just a new travel portal, the audience for the site are really the expats, the…

  • Meiji Gets a New Logo

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    Chris Palmieri wrote a terrific post for the AQ blog about the recent redesign of the Meiji logo, which brings together the separate identities of Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ldt. and Meiji Dairies Corporation, now simply known as Meiji Group.

  • Hexad

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    Loving these hexagonal Hexad coffee tables, designed by Tomoko Azumi for Rocket Gallery in London as part of an exhibition (“Book A Table”) that runs until November 7. Looks like it was just commissioned for the show, but they should really commercialize it. Via Dezeen.

  • Touch Wood

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    DoCoMo, Sharp, Olympus, and “reforestation group” More Trees have collaborated on a new mobile phone, the “Touch Wood,” using “excess materials collected during forest thinning.” No word on any official release just yet, but it’ll show up at this week’s CREATEC JAPAN 2009 at Makuhari Messe (October 6-10). Via PSFK.

  • Elekit Tube Amp

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    Koichi Futatsumata designs the stunning tube amp pictured above — see this Dezeen post for more visuals. It was produced for Elekit, a maker of “affordable, high-end audio equipment in kit form.”

  • Last Week at MoCo Loco

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    Last week’s Tokyo post at MoCo Loco covered Riki Watabe’s new Riki Air Clock for Lemnos (above), Elecom‘s new keyboards with crystal clear keys, and Jo Nagasaka‘s Paco living unit. Note: my weekly “This Week from Tokyo” series for MoCo Loco is going on hiatus for the month, as the site undergoes some major changes.…