2005.04.16
- RELAX continues to experiment with its layout and design, and this month goes glossy! It’s also thicker than it was, but there’s something about the glossy pages that just doesn’t feel right. After releasing a nice couple of issues (following a disastrous relaunch), it looks like they’re heading in the wrong direction again.
- This month RELAX also releases an all-Uniqlo mook. Brilliant piece of marketing actually — it’s basically a catalog made to look like an issue of RELAX. It seems like the brand is really pushing for some cred this year, something they will continue to do with the launch next week of their Seleqlo shop (April 23 to May 22), located at Rocket Gallery in Aoyama. It’s Uniqlo trying to crossover to the Harajuku/Aoyama crowd, and I’ll admit that I absolutely want that Groovisions tee that was featured in the mook, even if it has a Uniqlo logo on it. Could this finally be the year that Uniqlo comes out with a decent tee line?
- BRUTUS looks at out-of-the-ordinary jobs, framing their story as a search for a job that will really make you happy. Again, the slow movement gets some mainstream attention.
- CASA BRUTUS has a cover feature on museums of the 21st century, and somehow it seems like we’ve seen this type of article (or at least the buildings featured) one time too many in recent months. Sure, it’s nice architectural porn, but not particularly exciting.
- PEN suggests shops where a man can have a meal alone. Mostly a look at counter-centric restaurants, and a lot of them French.
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Jean Snow lives and breathes design and pop culture 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,
Game|Life, and
The Japan Times. He also manages the gallery space at
Cafe Pause.
Jean Snow is a daily contributor to Wired magazine's game blog,
Game|Life, covering game news from Japan and beyond.
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.
He is also the design/culture editor 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
August 4 (there is no July edition).
