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Category: Books

  • Urawaza

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    Lisa Katayama’s book, URAWAZA: SECRET EVERYDAY TIPS AND TRICKS FROM JAPAN has just been released. You may know Lisa from her Tokyomango blog, but she’s also a contributor to the io9 blog, and writes for WIRED as well. It was actually a piece she wrote for WIRED, on the urawaza phenomenon, that spawned the idea…

  • Dinky-Bloc

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    Let me point you to Dinky-Bloc, an indie publisher based in Cape Town, and their first release, THE KINEMA POST, by author Hilary Maraney. It’s linked to media brand Chocolate Cake Productions. You’ll notice the use of Japanese on the site, and according to Ben from Chocolate Cake, “the book is soon to be promoted…

  • Neojaponisme: Style Deficit Disorder Review

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    Marxy reviews fashion writer and editor Tiffany Godoy’s STYLE DEFICIT DISORDER, a tome on the development of Harajuku’s youth culture. It’s interesting to note that Godoy actually worked as an editor on Japanese art and style magazines.

  • Parallel Strokes

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    I already posted about Ian Lynam‘s book on type/graffiti creators, PARALLEL STROKES, but I really wanted to mention it again since I got my copy today (which I ordered from the site), and it really is a great little book that I think a lot of readers of this site would enjoy. Support small publishers…

  • BCCKS

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    Want to take a peek inside some art/design/photo books coming out of Japan? Then head to BCCKS, a site that offers digital books (and you can make your own) through a very beautiful interface. It was photographer Ani Watanabe who sent me the link — have a look at his books SAIGON and LONG EYES.

  • Parallel Strokes

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    My good friend Tokyo-based graphic designer Ian Lynam — he of my fancy shmancy new series of M31 logos — has just released his first book, PARALLEL STROKES. It’s a collection of interviews with “twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world.” Here’s more on what to expect: The book is…

  • Art Space Tokyo

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    Chin Music Press is at it again, and even though you know I can’t help but show love to them, I’m here to inform you that you WILL be pre-ordering their upcoming release NOW! ART SPACE TOKYO: AN INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE TOKYO ART WORLD is a guide to twelve of Tokyo’s art spaces by…

  • PingMag: Sumie Kawakami Interviewed

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    PingMag interviews Sumie Kawakami, author of Chin Music Press‘ GOODBYE MADAME BUTTERFLY.