Category: Events

  • The Last Participant

    Being pretty much the last Swedish Style participant to check in at the embassy (he leaves Tokyo tomorrow), Jesper gets an entry at the Swedish Style blog.

  • DJ Marxy in da House

    Marxy will be DJing at the Kiiiiiii record release party November 30 at Kichijoji’s Star Pines Cafe. He’ll DJ once solo, and once as MXUT (the team that made the great MXUT edition of Radio OK Fred, which you can download here). Oh, and here’s what Marxy does on Friday nights.

  • Thoughts on Tokyo Design Week

    I’m working on a piece for THE JAPAN TIMES, a sort of round-up of Tokyo Design Week, and I’d love to get your thoughts on the topic — and this could help shape the article, or suggest things that I should address. So if you attended, what did you think? What does Tokyo Design Week…

  • TDW Report at PingMag

    PingMag has a report up on Tokyo Design Week. Going through it, looks like I was at a lot of the same places as the writers. As for my own coverage, next week’s edition of my monthly “On Design” column for THE JAPAN TIMES (on Tuesday) will feature a few favorite items spotted at 100%…

  • Kitanaka

    I love the idea of creating collective art spaces like Kitanaka, but selfishly, wish it wasn’t happening all the way out in Yokohama. Approximately 50 units of artists, architects, designers and individuals engaged in other creative activities have found a new home in two refurbished, 80-year-old buildings that were dubbed “Kitanaka Brick & White”. Next…

  • Tokyo Design Week Pictures, the Finale

    MoCo Loco has put up the final two posts of pics I took during Tokyo Design Week –another one covering Design Tide-related events, and coverage of the Tokyo Designer’s Week “Container Exhibition.” You can get to all the previous posts from here.

  • Mamma Gun for Everyone

    Yuki finally gave our (now over) Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause a visit, and lived to blog the tale. Oh, and she still has t-shirts for sale.

  • Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition at Mitsukoshi

    A reader sends in word that Akira Yamaguchi will be exhibiting some works at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, November 22-27. It’s not listed on TAB yet, but I imagine they’ll have details up soon enough.