Sep 27, 2005
On Design
My new column for THE JAPAN TIMES, called “On Design,” is going to appear in the lifestyle section of tomorrow’s paper (Tuesday), and will continue on a monthly basis every fourth Tuesday. In it, I will spotlight 4-5 items that I feel to be noteworthy for their design. For this first edition I chose 4 diverse things, to give an idea of what will be covered, but future columns will probably have a theme to them. So pick up the paper tomorrow (or read it online), and let me know what you think.
For manufacturers/designers reading this, please send me press releases and contact info for items that you feel might be of interest. Take note that the column covers Japan designs only.
Update: The column is now online.
Jean Snow is a contributor to 
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of 
Congratulations on the column!
Japan Times really needs to clean up the editing process a bit, they’ve run the column with headers then slipped the headers in again as the first sentence of the paras below them. Clunky.
The old-fashioned newsprint version seems to read OK. Wouldn’t be surprised though if JT suffered the same online problems as countless other publications around the world, employing dozens to work in the newsroom and leaving the webpage to one or two guys who sleep under their desks in order to keep the entire ship afloat… and then blamed the same said bleary eyed technicians for their “incompetence”. So I heard anyway. Nice one, Jean. Looking forward to more…
Yeah, it’s fine in the newspaper, the error only appears online.
Enjoyed the column on the way to work today. look forward to the next one.
Are you just looking at product design?
Yeah, that’s what the editor wanted, a column that covers product design only — basically a showcase of pretty objects.