I don’t really get what this event is all about, but Groovisions have something to do with it, which is enough for me to take notice.

At Spiral until April 6.

Time to get some tips on improving your homelife.

The show is currently running at Living Design Center Ozone until April 5.

Andrew Duckworth of Anko lets us know that his tees are currently on sale.

I saw this, GA HOUSES PROJECT 2005, at Junkudo yesterday, and was definitely tempted to pick it up. It looks at various projects, featuring Tadao Ando, Jun Aoki, Atelier Bow-Wow, among others. Bonus: the content is presented in a bilingual format.

It’s a new watch designed by Tokujin Yoshioka for Seiko. Ain’t it purty? Link via Dezain.net.

Another promising event in this year’s “Deutschland in Japan” calendar of projects.

It happens at the Matsushita Electric Works HQ in Tokyo, April 7 to May 5. Official site for the event.

A garbage can in Harajuku.

I haven’t been keeping up with the magazine KATEIGAHO INTERNATIONAL. Although it does sport some gorgeous photography throughout, the content just doesn’t seem to interest me that much, as their focus definitely wanders towards the more traditional aspects of Japan. I did have a look through the latest issue (Spring 2005) earlier today, and there are a few articles of note: a brilliant pictorial with cover girl Chiaki Kuriyama, a look at the Meguro-ku area (we meet the Organic Cafe’s Kazumasa Aihara — who also runs Depot and NEMS in the area — and Transit’s Sadahiro Nakamura), and a talk with Cow Books creator Yataro Matsuura about libraries in Japan.

The Meguro-ku article reveals some interesting news. The Organic Cafe will definitely move sometime in 2005 (I’ve been hearing this since last year, with no set date), to make way for the Nakameguro Redevelopment Progam, whatever that is. As for Transit, they will be opening two new Claska-like hotels: one in Shibuya, and one in Akasaka.

Well, it only took 3 issues: COMPOSITE is no longer bilingual. The new issue (Vol. 3 No. 3), pictured above, has ditched the English insert they used to have in the back — for more content I suppose. First PAPER SKY, now COMPOSITE…

The new issue of the magazine TITLE features a cover story on the new up and coming CM queens, and comes with a DVD that includes personal messages from all your favorite gravia idols. Ain’t that sweet.

Speaking of TITLE, anyone know if there’s an official website for the magazine? I wanted to inlclude the cover in this post, but couldn’t find anything — distributor Fujisan only has a an old cover up.

Update: Here’s a link to their official page.

I’ve started by weeklong stay at Gridskipper, so don’t forget to drop by. It will probably end up being Tokyo heavy.

I was at Claska last Friday to see the “Catholic” show — very enjoyable, and loved the vibrating cat — and thought I’d stop by Office in Meguro, since I’m never in that area. I first went up to the desk person at the hotel to find out when it opened, and she looked at me strangely, and then when I asked again, she said the place was already closed, which didn’t make sense to me. I ended up going to the cafe, only to find that it had been closed down, and was now only available as a room to be rented. The Transit site doesn’t seem to have been updated though.

After a 3-month absence, Toe is blogging again at Groovisual Diary. We missed you!

Another sign that Bape is nowhere near where it was a couple of years ago: I stopped by the Bape Cafe in Aoyama earlier today only to see that it had closed down, with a tiny sign on the window explaining that this had happened for “certain reasons.” Yeah, certain reasons. Love the brand or hate it, it was still a nice cafe, created by Wonderwall.

Miru-Kenchiku has 3 new galleries covering some of the big-name fashion brand boutiques in Ginza: Dior, Lanvin, and Louis Vuitton. Link via Dezain.net.