Category: Events

  • Happening in Tokyo

    Tonight (September 17, 18:30-20:30) writer Roland Kelts and Masakazu Kubo (key figure in the creation of the Pokemon empire) give a talk at the Tokyo Women’s Plaza in Aoyama (next to the UN University). Tokyo Fun Party’s “Juliana” is back next week (Sunday, November 25) at Soft (19:00-23:00) with guests Yatt and Zen la Rock,…

  • Gravity Light

    Keiji Ashizawa has updated his Gravity Light model (here), with models to be previewed at next month’s “PROTOTYPE” exhibition (which has a site now — the opening is December 7 at 19:00).

  • TDW 2007 at MoCo Loco

    When I first talked about what I would be doing during Tokyo Design Week, I said that I would be taking photos for MoCo Loco, as I’ve done in the past. Two of my regular “This Week from Tokyo” posts also dealt with the week’s happenings, first when it all started, and then as a…

  • PingMag: Best of Tokyo Design Week 2007

    PingMag shares its favorites from Tokyo Design Week 2007 in the form of a top 20. Item Idem‘s installation and our Radio OK Fred performances appear at #11! French artist Item Idem made a catchy installation called Displaysthetics in the basement of Celine shop, with Radio OK Fred doing a live show right in it…

  • DOTMOV Festival 2007

    What’s so great about the SHIFT-produced DOTMOV digital film festival is the fact that all selections are shown online, so anyone can get in on the screenings. You can also catch screenings in various physical spaces, with Tokyo’s location being at COMBINE in Nakameguro (November 1-30, with a special live event on November 21).

  • PauseTalk Vol. 15 (CGBG Edition)

    Big thanks to everyone who came to the special edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 15) we had this past Monday, to celebration the “Creative GBG in Tokyo” event at Cafe Pause. It was far removed from how things usually go, with a few presentations (special thanks to Jesper, Julia, Martin, and Marxy for participating) and not…

  • Imprint Handbag Design Contest

    Imprint Culture Lab is having a handbag design contest, where you send in a design idea (here’s the template) by January 21 of next year, with all submissions then getting posted to the Imprint site and voted on. The winning prize? A certain LV bag.

  • TAB Party Video Report

    Couldn’t make it to Tokyo Art Beat‘s 3rd anniversary party at SuperDeluxe last month? No worries, here’s a video look at the evening that was.