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  • Art Setouchi 2010

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    Kenya Hara designs the identity for next year’s Setouchi International Art Festival.

  • Mobile Dining

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    Great furniture design by Nobuhiro Teshima dating back to 2006: the Mobile Dining stowaway table. It not only folds away, the height is also adjustable. Via Boing Boing.

  • Endless Rain Record

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    Created for Kyouei‘s “Rain” exhibition during the Taiwan Design Expo ’09, the Endless Rain Record does just what its name implies: plays the sound of rain endlessly — the grooves on the vinyl form a circle.

  • TiltShift Generator for iPhone

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    Something else I should have posted ages ago: the release of Takayuki Fukatsu‘s TiltShift Generator for iPhone (it was previously released as a desktop app). I’m a huge fan of all of Fukatsu’s iPhone photo apps, and have been having fun with this one as well.

  • iPhone Bicycle Navigation System

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    Here’s a pretty interesting project in which Tokyo-based Ubiquitous Entertainment put together a navigation system that mounts an iPhone on a cycling helmet, with the display running into an eyepiece. Thanks to the device’s compass — if you have a 3GS that is — everything orients correctly as you move your head around. Via Core77.

  • Yuka Contemporary

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    A bit late on this — got lost in my “things to post” list — but last month TABlog covered the opening of the new Yuka Contemporary gallery. It’s located in a neighborhood around Waseda University — so just a bike ride away from my house — that used to be known for washi production.…

  • New Board from OPEN

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    A new planned design at OPEN Skateboards, an homage to designer Kiyoshi Awazu, by Ian Lynam.

  • Time for Coffee

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    Some nice minimalist packaging for bottled coffee. Via FFFFOUND!