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Month: October 2005

  • Houen

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    About Houen, at the Design Gallery. Update: The show featured ceramic pottery in the form of dishes. Not really my taste.

  • PlayStation Spot

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    At the Ginza Sony Building, where you can try out new PSP games. Update: I had a blast (the most fun I’ve ever had at the Sony Building) and was probably there for close to an hour playing games. The wireless PlayStation Spot works like a charm, and I was able to try out 5…

  • GGG

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    At the GGG for this month’s show. Update: The show, “Laboratoires CCCP,” was a real letdown for me — not really the kind of graphic work that I enjoy seeing. It’s probably the quickest I’ve ever checked out an exhibition at the GGG — I was out after 5-10 minutes.

  • NWA Ad

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    The new NWA ad campaign. Update: The reason I took a picture of this is that I find it interesting how they’ve based the compaign around the use of the QR barcode. Just goes to show how popular it’s become — pretty much every ad you see includes a QR barcode that leads to more…

  • Where do Babies Come from?

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    This is an ad — and it also represents one of the mini-games — for Sega’s follow-up to the most excellent Nintendo DS game FEEL THE MAGIC. The game is called WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM? (AKACHAN WA DOKO KARA KURU NO?), and it’s out in Japan next week (October 20). This post from Kotaku…

  • The Latest GAS

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    A new collection of tees, “Nostalgia – vol. 01,” has just been released. By 4 designers (Surface to Air, Spotliss, Steve Wilson, and Andrio Abero) who were all asked to interpret the theme of “nostalgia,” the t-shirts are now available at Beams-T. Vol. 2, including the works of 3 more designers, will be out in…

  • Jesper at Ozone

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    Some info (in Japanese) on the talk that Jesper will be giving at Living Design Center Ozone on November 5, as part of Swedish Style.

  • Santa Marta au Lait

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    Trying this flavor today — not bad.

  • Twelve

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    Twelve, a new Naoto Fukasawa-designed watch for the Issey Miyake brand. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Design Column for October

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    I have a new design column up at Tokyo Q. This month: a look at a few Good Design Award winners, Toyo Ito, some Tokyo Design Week info, and Roughtoyz/Loughtoys’ Snapazoo.