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Category: Books

  • 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.

  • Seth Fisher Passes Away

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    Seth Fisher, a comic book artist I really, really liked (VERTIGO POP TOKYO, FANTASTIC FOUR/IRON MAN: BIG IN JAPAN), has passed away due to injuries resulting from a fall off a club’s roof in Osaka. More info on the artist (from CR Briefings) here, here, and here. Update: More info from Drawn! The Illustration Blog.

  • Voices of New Orleans

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    Chin Music Press, ever the forward thinking little publisher, has launched a blog, VOICES OF NEW ORLEANS, to accompany it’s upcoming book, DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS?

  • The Latest from Nao Suzuki

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    Nao Suzuki is a friend whose works (photography/video) I’ve mentioned before, and she lets me know that she now has 3 books and a small poster on sale at the Watari-um Art Museum‘s On Sundays shop. This is the start of a series, with future installments to incorporate different styles/formats.

  • Here Comes the Judge

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    Big congrats go out to our favorite Tokyo-based book designer — I’m talking of course of Chin Music Press‘ Craig Mod — for having been selected as a judge for this year’s edition of the ADC (Art Directors Club) Awards. Let the love for CMP spread, and spread…

  • Update on Design Tide

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    I’d say that the inaugural edition of Design Tide during last year’s Tokyo Design Week was a good show — ICON magazine agrees, and is set to cover the event and its results in their next issue — and I’m glad to hear that there are still things happening on their end. In the TDW…

  • Book Cover Exhibition

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    For all you book binding fetishists (Craig, I’m thinking of you): When you leave Ochanomizu station, cross the Hijiribashi bridge, and walk along Sotoboridori toward Akihabara with Yushima Seido on your left, you will find on your right a small shop named Misuzudo. It belongs to a book bindery, the main factory of which is…

  • Midnight Eye Update

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    Midnight Eye has just updated with some new articles/reviews. Nevermind that it’s almost Christmas, they’ve gone all horror on us: an interview with Norio Tsuruta (RING 0), a feature pondering the death of J-Horror, frightful reviews aplenty, including RAMPO NOIR, THE RAVAGED HOUSE, KOKKURI, even a book review (THE RING COMPANION).