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Category: Events

  • New Designer’s Award Exhibition 2005

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    I’m heading out soon for my monthly Ginza outing, and I’ll be checking this out: An exhibition featuring posters of award-winning graphic design work. Every year, designers featured in the Japan Graphic Designer Association Inc. (JAGDA) annual, who are under 39 years old and have created works that are refreshingly new and of high quality…

  • Festival du Film Francais Yokohama

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    If you don’t mind heading out to Yokohama, then take note that this year’s edition of the Festival du Film Francais is happening this week. I wouldn’t mind seeing LES POUPEES RUSSES. With master director Costa-Gavras as its organising committee’s president, this festival introduces in 19 programs (18 feature films plus one short film special)…

  • T-Shirts as Media Exhibition

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    Finally, something else to see at the KDDI Designing Studio: The popular “T-Shirts As Media” tees as well as back numbers of their free-paper Dictionary will be on display. The shirts will also be up for sale. (TAB) Until June 18.

  • Flashback/Flashforward

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    I was recently sent word of the following FILMeX produced film event, which I wrote about on Gridskipper yesterday: Following yesterday’s film festival posts, here’s something you might want to check out if in Tokyo this month. The FILMeX group will organize a three-day film screening (June 24-26) at the Japan Foundation Forum in Akasaka.…

  • Aprils Release Party

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    I haven’t been to a gig in way too long, and this release party event for the new Aprils album, SPACE DREAM BATHROOM, sounds like something I’d be into. Features live performances by Aprils, Ram Rider, YMCK, and Hazel Nut Chocolate, with Plus-Tech Squeeze Box’s Tomonori Hayashibe DJing. It happens July 9 at Shibuya O-nest,…

  • Design21 Exhibition

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    The Design21 “Love/Why?” exhibition sounds good, and the list of included artists (on the TAB page) is just insane. Design21 nurtures the links between man and man, between man and nature – it also stands for a new lifestyle, for design that makes people happy. Design21 is an international design competition looking for young design…

  • Julian Opie Exhibition

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    I’m not really familiar with Julian Opie’s previous work, but I like the image I’ve seen (“Hijiri, Actress 4”) that will be included in the following show: Julian Opie takes the everyday mundane and transforms it into the, er, universal mundane. A model of a car is not just a model but, says London’s Tate…

  • Blythe Exhibition

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    At Spiral right now: “Blythe Anniversary Exhibition – Cinema Princess.” The mysterious Blythe dolls are getting a “Cinema Princess” makeover by various artists and designers to celebrate their anniversary. (TAB) It starts today, and ends June 5. Also, last week’s METROPOLIS had a cover feature on Blythe.