Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming in Tokyo -- sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for the following online/offline publications:
Time,
Inside (Australian Design Review),
Gizmodo,
Gridskipper,
Kotaku,
Tokyo Q,
Superfuture,
OK Fred,
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel,
I.D. (International Design),
Metropolis,
Azure,
MoCo Loco,
Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's
Game|Life,
PingMag, and
The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at
Cafe Pause.
He also works with
Pecha Kucha Night, helping out on various projects, including updating
Pecha Kucha Daily, a blog that highlights the creativity coming out of PKN events worldwide.
Tokyolife: Art and Design covers Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives. Jean Snow provided coordination assistance.
The
Superfuture Superguides are a series of PDF travel guides to some of your favorites cities, updated monthly, and obsessively compiling the best places to shop, eat, and drink. The
Tokyo guide is edited by Jean Snow.
Radio OK Fred is a (mostly) weekly podcast series hosted by Jean Snow and
OK Fred magazine founders Yoshi and Ay2. You can download
previous episodes, and also subscribe to a
feed of the show.
He is editor-at-large at
Neojaponisme, a web journal covering social and cultural aspects of Japan. Read the manifesto, by founder and chief editor W. David Marx,
here.
PauseTalk is a regular series of events that take place at
Cafe Pause on the first Monday of every month, with a start time of
20:00. The idea is to create a forum where Tokyo-based creatives can get together and discuss their own projects, as well as cultural currents of the city. The next edition happens
July 6.
