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Month: January 2010

  • SNOW Magazine Part 2

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    Continuing with my look at the soon-to-launch SNOW web magazine, I’d like to start by doing something I forgot to do in the previous post — I’ve of course made a quick and easy iPhone wallpaper with the logo, which you can download here. So why launch a web magazine? It’s an idea I’ve long…

  • The Decade in Japanese Music

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    Néojaponisme takes an exhaustive look at the decade that was in Japanese Music, from J-Pop to indies and everything in between.

  • Radio OK Fred 18

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    And so as promised last week, here we go again with a new episode of Radio OK Fred (18), this time an episode that was recorded in Paris last year, featuring music selections by Marie from Colette. The link to download is below, and remember that you can always just subscribe to the feed. Radio…

  • PauseTalk Tonight

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    And here we go with a reminder that this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 37) happens tonight (January 11) at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 20:00 — the cafe is reserved from 19:30, so feel free to come early. Here’s a link to the Facebook event page. Max Hodges will be on…

  • SNOW Magazine

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    I finally announced it in my big year-end post, and now’s the time to start revealing more details about my soon-to-launch web magazine, SNOW. I don’t want to give an official launch date — it sort of depends on when everything is ready to do go — but I can tell you that it will…

  • Corner

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    A new group show at the Nanzuka Underground gallery in Shibuya entitled “Corner” brings together the following four artists: Alexander Gelman, Paul Davis, Toast Girl, and Yuichi Yokoyama. This exhibition presents the works of artists who continue to produce original works that are not influenced by the fashions and trends in the belief that the…

  • Hanami by Martin Holtkamp

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    Photographer Martin Holtkamp — and fellow PauseTalker — has just launched his first major exhibition at Gallery Speak For in Daikanyama. The show, “Hanami,” runs until January 20, and Martin should be on hand tomorrow (January 11) at PauseTalk Vol. 37 to talk about the show, and he’ll also be presenting at this month’s PechaKucha…

  • Calpis

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    Lovely Package takes a look at a few examples of package design for Japan’s Calpis drinks. The branding was done by Taku Satoh. The packaging pictured is for gift sets of various Calpis drinks.

  • Wedding Invitation

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    To commemorate the wedding of Osamu Akatsu with Manami Kondo in Kyoto last month, Akatsu himself designed the beautiful invitation pictured here. Beast Pieces goes through the intricacies of the invitation, detailing the type of paper used, as well as describing how the one-color metallic design was achieved.

  • New Year Cards 2010

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    Spoon & Tamago shares a few of the New Year cards it has received from designers and design studios in Japan. Pictured here, a card by creative director Yuji Tokuda for his communication design company Canaria. Tokuda is behind the “Retired Weapons” peace design project.