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  • Shift 112

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    The new issue of SHIFT (112) is up, featuring a cover interview with Null*, a design project by Artless (Shun Kawakami). It’s work that I really like, and I so wish I could take in the exhibition at SOSO in Sapporo (starting today) — they had a show in Tokyo last September, but I didn’t…

  • CMP Offices, Tokyo

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    Congrats to the Chin Music Press crew on their office space at the Co-Lab collaborative studio. I’ve been hearing some good things about this new Co-Lab space (it launched earlier this year), and look forward to checking it out myself. More on Co-Lab from the CMP blog here.

  • Samurai Girl

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    Francesco, and editor for Hobby Media in Italy, sends me word of a new book he’s co-edited for an art book publisher there (Drago) called SAMURAI GIRL, covering the photography of Julie Watai, who you might have seen as an idol in the group Pikapika or in the pages of SMARTGIRL. S-Style strikes again! S…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Junk Coffee Aoyama Book Center You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Taschen Tokyo Temp Store

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    Seems like the Taschen store at Omotesando Hills is only going to be temporary (until May). When hearing “Hills” in Tokyo, the first thing you think of is certainly Roppongi Hills. But now you have to shift your focus to Omotesando, as a new complex called “Omotesando Hills” opens right where the beautiful Dojunkai Apartments…

  • Speed Tribes

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    Marxy offers up some thoughts on Karl Taro Greenfeld’s 1995 look at Japanese youth culture, SPEED TRIBES. I’m quite interested by the reading suggestions he makes at the end of the piece, things I haven’t had a chance to read (I’m so behind on book reading actually, finding it hard to get through books these…

  • Chin Music Press Does It Again

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    My favorite little Tokyo (OK, Tokyo/Seattle) publisher, Chin Music Press, has done it again with the release of their brand spanking new book, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS? I got my copy in the post today (which I had pre-ordered), and as with their previous effort, KUHAKU, it’s an absolutely…

  • GAS Book 22

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    The next release (22) from the GAS BOOK series covers designer/art director Nagi Noda. Also, this month’s Ginza Graphic Gallery exhibition (February 6-28) is a look at her work, focusing on her “Hanpanda” creations.