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  • The Art of Living

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    Time to get some tips on improving your homelife. “Are you comfortable at home?” Everybody has their own idea about comfort. But is there a specific type of home which many people would find pleasing? What is the determining factor of a comfortable home? In this event, five architects experienced in various housing issues will…

  • Mystery of Beauty

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    Another promising event in this year’s “Deutschland in Japan” calendar of projects. This is a collaboration between the architecturally impressive, castle-like Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, and Matsushita Electric Works, the headquarters of which are located in an equally impressive highrise building in Tokyo. While German industrial design is primarily…

  • Tokyo International Anime Fair

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    Next weekend (April 2-3) sees the big Tokyo International Anime Fair at Tokyo Big Sight. The biggest animation trade show in Japan attracts over 50,000 visitors in two days to see the latest anime features and TV shows, games and characters goods. 130 Japanese production companies and TV broadcasters, as well as about 30 international…

  • Shinako Sato

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    Barbie, like you’ve never seen her before. Photographer Shinako Sato reportedly worked for five years as a makeup artist for a mortician, daubing the dead with lipstick. Perhaps that explains her fascination with elaborately staged and dressed dioramas of stiff figures (thankfully, dolls not real dead people). Sato works with Barbie dolls and plastic figures,…

  • Uniqlo Creative Award 2005

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    Pics from the “Uniqlo Creative Award 2005” exhibition at Spiral in Aoyama.

  • Canada Goes Wild

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    Canada’s Design Exchange organization — they promote the work of Canadian designers — is organizing the “Canada Goes Wild” event at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (March 31) and at the World Expo in Aichi (April 7). Pictured above is the new stamp from Canada Post to commemorate the Expo. Here’s the official site for…

  • Shirokuma

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    SHIROKUMA is a beautiful flash-based online photographic magazine, and today marks the start of their first gallery exhibition, “Idle Network.” This is Shirokuma’s first gallery exhibition, after over two years on the scene as an online photographic magazine (http://srkm.org). The expressive power of photography was always a topic of concern to us, since photos easily…

  • Akira Exhibition 2005

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    Julia Barnes sends in this bit of info on the upcoming show of artist AKIRA at her Nakaochiai Gallery. Tokyo-based artist AKIRA presents his latest series of oil on canvas and board take on an imaginary world made only of blocks and numerous human figures. The landscape situates the artist in a stream of time,…