Category: Events

  • PROTOTYPE Exhibition Opening

    I’ve put up a Flickr photoset with a few photos from last night’s opening party for the “PROTOTYPE” exhibition. It was so crowded — and I ended up chatting so much — that I didn’t get to take as many as I wanted. Be sure to find out more about participating designers at the event’s…

  • PingMag: The Great Robot Exhibition

    PingMag covers the “The Great Robot Exhibition,” currently showing at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Uneno, until January 27.

  • Happening in Tokyo

    A few things happening tonight (December 7), first off the opening of the “PROTOTYPE” exhibition at Keiji Ashizawa Design‘s new office space, from 19:00 to 21:00. All participating designers should be there, so a good chance to talk design with an interesting bunch. Photographer Yuri Manabe, who did the photo work on the TOKYO LOOK…

  • MUJI Award 02 Results

    The results for the MUJI Award 02 have been announced. The grand prize winner is NIIMI’s Towel with Further Options, pictured above. There were no silver prizes, but judges’ prize winners include Satoshi Yoshiizumi’s Stackable Hanger, Wong Kok Keong’s Chronotebook, and De Meyboom Lab’s Kakujio.

  • CGBG, the Contest

    Following up on last month’s “Creative GBG in Tokyo” event at Cafe Pause, I hand the mic over to Jesper to talk about a contest to win some of the items that were on display: “Creative GBG” at Cafe Pause is long over, but it is still present in our hearts and minds. Remembering such…

  • PauseTalk Tonight

    Tonight (December 3) is this month’s edition (Vol. 16) of PauseTalk at Cafe Pause, with the usual start time of 19:30. Things will be back to normal following last month’s special edition — which I admit was more an evening of presentations compared to the regular talk format. Looking forward to it!

  • TABlog: CET 07

    TABlog covers this year’s edition of the “Central East Tokyo” event, running until December 2.

  • Monocle at TDW 2007

    MONOCLE has posted a video report on this year’s edition of Tokyo Design Week.