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Category: City Life

  • PKN, Vol. 33

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    Last night’s edition of PechaKucha Night (Vol. 33) was quite fun, and I guess I even got a slide at the start wishing me birthday wishes, but I ended up arriving a bit late and missed it. Overall, there were more Japanese presentations than in recent times, but it was a nice mix, and I…

  • Freitag at Ito-ya

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    Uber-stationery store Ito-ya is holding a celebration of all things Freitag! Two brothers from Zurich, Daniel and Markus Freitag, were bike-riding designers in 1993 when they began making durable, waterproof bags from recycled truck tarps. Freitag bags are put together entirely from recycled materials, including airbags, seat belts and bicycle inner tubes—no two are the…

  • Tokyo Boy 04

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    As I mentioned yesterday, I recorded a new episode of TOKYO BOY last Friday, this time during a speed visit of Ginza (crunched in between a meeting and then heading to work). Again, it sounds like crap, so if the quality from past episodes annoys you, then stay away. I will be getting a small…

  • Atelier Muji

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    I was in Ginza this past Friday (recorded a new episode of TOKYO BOY, which will be up later today) and of course stopped by Muji Yurakucho. The current exhibition at Atelier Muji had to do with stitching, and you had all these children-sized t-shirts mounted on a wall. Here’s another shot from inside the…

  • Lapnet Ship

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    While the Foret building is closed for renovations, the Lapnet Ship gallery has moved down the street (coming from Omotesando, turn left before you get to Foret). The current show covers the Nintendo DS game ANIMAL CROSSING, but I didn’t have time to go in have a look (you had to register or something at…

  • Design Festa Vol. 24

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    Yuki made it out to Design Festa Vol. 24, and has the Flickr photoset (with 62 photos) to prove it.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Robot Fun at KDDI Designing Studio Graniph Design Tees You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Swedish Style 2006

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    There’s finally some info out there regarding this year’s edition of Swedish Style. It’s a bit longer this time, happening November 1-15 (the opening party is November 3), and the theme this year is “paradise.” Me and Jesper have already started planning for another event this year, again to take place at Cafe Pause.