Tees from Skwat
Get your anime/manga flavoured Apple-lovin’ tees from Skwat, a Belgian t-shirt designer! Link via Cult of Mac.
Nov 30, 2005
DoCoMo International Architectural Design Winners
Have a look at the winning entries for the 1st DoCoMo International Architectural Design Competition. Link via Dezain.net.
Nov 30, 2005
iPod Bar
From TUAW:
Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has installed an “iPod Bar” in the Tokyo Apple Store, which functions like the Genius Bar, but fields only iPod-specific questions. I can just hear the Genius Bar workers from across the globe exclaiming, “We’re sick of resetting iPods!” Hence the iPod Bar was born. Check it out if you live near the Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo.
Nov 30, 2005
Schooling Pad Workshop
This page features results form a recent workshop held at Schooling Pad. Link via Dezain.net.
Nov 26, 2005
Abandoned Buildings
Tropolism points to this site that chronicles abandoned Japanese buildings.
Update: Momus posts his own thoughts on the site. Oh, and the site’s name translates to “Haikyo Deflation Spiral.”
Nov 26, 2005
On Design Is Online
This month’s “On Design” column is now online. As I mentioned the other day, it’s a look at some standouts from 100% Design, and features Chihiro Tanaka’s Spore, Bridge’s Ice Partition (by designer Kenichiro Ohmori), Metaphys’ Factory, the E.P.A + GELCHOP Bike Protector, the JDMC Ryu Line Black Series of chairs, and pd DESIGN’s Green Day.
Nov 26, 2005
Echika
You know all that annoying construction that has been going on for months now at Omotesando station? Well, it was all for a new underground shopping/food court called Echika, set to open on December 2. Doesn’t sound terribly exciting, but I hope it means that all exits will again be open.
Nov 26, 2005
Designing the Perfect Balance
My Tokyo Design Week article that appeared in today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES (in the Arts section) is now available online. The piece was published with additional reviews by Sébastien-Philippe Fortin, which you can read here. For some reason, last Tuesday’s “On Design” column still isn’t online, but hopefully will be up shortly.
Nov 25, 2005
Virginie Lavey Exhibition
One of my favorite events during Tokyo Design Week was definitely the “Fresh Touch” food design exhibition at Laune Galerie, and that show’s art director, Virginie Lavey, has a new project, a photo/video show, taking place at Ebisu Garden Place from tomorrow until December 25. More info here (in Japanese).
Nov 24, 2005
Emma & Malena & NCM
Fresh from their contribution at our Mamma Gun event (they still have goods on sale there, in case you’re wondering), Emma & Malena have opened a temporary store at the Next Century Modern offices in Gothenburg. Oh, and NCM is also behind their nice new site.
Nov 24, 2005
Hideki Kaji at Cafe Pause
During our Mamma Gun event at Cafe Pause, Hideki Kaji came over to check things out, and he even blogged about it here (scroll down a bit).
Nov 24, 2005
so+ba
Alex Sonderegger is a Tokyo-based art director who creates under the so+ba monicker. Check out his portfolio.
Nov 24, 2005
Realms of San Francisco
The Nakaochiai Gallery is getting ready for its next show, and it’s a major one: “Realms of San Francisco.”
Nakaochiai Gallery is proud to present seven artists representative of the San Francisco art scene that is currently drawing attention in the US and worldwide. Their work has been part of exhibitions at such world class museums and galleries as San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Jack Hanley Gallery and New Langton Arts as well as New York’s Deitch Projects.
In ‘Realms of San Francisco’ artists present moderately-sized works on paper in which they create meticulously detailed worlds with intriguing intimacy: Robert Gutierrez’s dreamscapes where pseudo sci-fi lands float together with animist spiritualism; Xylor Jane’s hypnotic fields find order through mathematics; and Oliver Halsman Rosenberg’s dimensions of “sphereism” reveal inherent patterns of nature found in both the micro and macro universes.
In the wake of Art Fair Tokyo’s successful summer debut with the motto, “Change the situation and open the art market,” the gallery’s owner, Julia Barnes, is excited to help debut these 7 American artists in Tokyo: “I believe the ideas and energy in ‘Realms of San Francisco’ will inject refreshing dialogue into the Tokyo art scene.”
‘Realms of San Francisco’ is a new landmark in Nakaochiai Gallery’s effort to provide cultural interchange through art.
The show will be held from November 27 to December 23, with an opening reception November 26 (18:00-21:00).
Nov 24, 2005
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