Author: Jean Snow

Thanks for giving. We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in Japan, but quite a few people were in a giving mood last night for our special “PechaKucha x ArchiAid” event, held at our regular PK home here in Tokyo,SuperDeluxe. The event brought together architects to share projects that they’ve been working on under the ArchiAid umbrella,…

A space. For games. There are a lot of terrific Kickstarter projects that deserve your attention, and I would need daily posts to describe all of the ones I find interesting. I would like to highlight one in particular though, and it’s for the LA Game Space. My friend Daniel Rehn is behind the project…

A boy, his dog, and his iPad. The illustration above was produced by my very good friend Luis Mendo, who is currently in town working with me on PechaKucha-related projects. It was done earlier this year to accompany an article I wrote for an independent magazine, but because of delays in the release of the…

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Not too long ago I wrote about how cyberpunk was occupying my current mindspace, and it continues to do so. Strangely enough, on the day I wrote that post I found out about Cypher, a new text adventure game with…

What a week. This was certainly the busiest design week I’ve ever had, and I barely even saw anything. All the work was of course because of the very big — and very successful — PechaKucha Night we produced as part of Tokyo Designers Week 2012. This was then followed by a mini PK session…

I’m running again. It’s been a year or two since I’ve run regularly, and the main reason I stopped doing it was that I was finding it difficult to both go out for a run and walk my dog on the same day — and running with the dog proved difficult. I’ve always had it…

My dog gets a personalized cup when he goes to Starbucks. I’ve already written about the fact that we often go to our local Starbucks with him, and he’s become so familiar that not only does the staff usually bring out a cup of water for him, but as pictured in this post, they include…

I’m in a cyberpunk state of mind these days. What mostly kickstarted it was me finally getting my copy of the Android: Netrunner core set, something I had been excitedly waiting on for months. An update of the classic collectible card gamefrom the nineties, and designed by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield, it pits…