Author: Jean Snow
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Gundam at Night
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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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May Art Links
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The Art Space Tokyo blog has a new round-up of art links, covering the month of May.
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Newspaper to New Paper Project
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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
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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
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More depressing news on the state of the Japanese anime industry from Matt Alt.