What you see here is by far the most fun I’ve ever had at the KDDI Designing Studio. I wrote a post about it on Gridskipper yesterday, and here’s a Flickr photoset I put up (and I talk about playing with the robot in my most recent TOKYO BOY podcast).

• Robot Fun at KDDI Designing Studio
• Graniph Design Tees

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During his last few days in New York, Momus finds the time to interview artist Koki Tanaka.

There’s finally some info out there regarding this year’s edition of Swedish Style. It’s a bit longer this time, happening November 1-15 (the opening party is November 3), and the theme this year is “paradise.”

Me and Jesper have already started planning for another event this year, again to take place at Cafe Pause.

I’d never seen anything like this before, it’s built just to store construction equipment. This is on Meiji street, close to the crossing with Omotesando.

Even though Foret is currently closed and undergoing some rennovations, the Lapnet Ship is still open, and has just moved down the road (see the access section of their site). The current show covers DOUBUTSU NO MORI (ANIMAL CROSSING):

Having to make reservations sounds a bit strange, I’ve never seen a show there where you had to do that.

I stopped by the Aoyama Book Center earlier in the week, and the outside of the store was plastered with the signs you see here, for some sort of promotion between STUDIO VOICE magazine and Birkenstock. The second picture was taken inside the store.

Just a reminder that my “On Design” column for this month will be in tomorrow’s (Tuesday) edition of THE JAPAN TIMES. This time, I go with my base instincts and cover something I’m sure will come as no surprise to any of you: all things white!

Update
The column is now online (free registration required after a week).

Spiral now has an online store, including a section for Spiral Records!

A shot of the newly opened Nakata.net Cafe in Aoyama, on the same spot as the Xbox Lounge from a few months ago. It’s a temporary cafe setup for the duration of the World Cup, with all matches being shown on giant screens inside. Here‘s the post I wrote for Gridskipper last week, and one more shot.

I put up two more pics of the new Paul Smith Space store on my Flickr account (here and here, and there’s this one from earlier in the week).

Spotted this temporary event space still under construction at Omotesando Hills earlier in the week. The event, a collaboration between RTA and Narita Airport’s new Terminal 1, was set to start this past Friday, and also includes an exhibition at the Spiral building. Two more pictures here and here.

I was at the Junkudo bookstore earlier today and ended up picking up the latest +81 (32), which is their “Graphics the World Over” issue, as well as the newly relaunched ATMOSPHERE (3) from GAS. I was unpleasantly surprised by what the latter was selling for: 2300 yen. Seems a bit expensive, and it’s double what the previous issues sold for (and this new one doesn’t seem to be that much thicker). From all the magazine-related posts I write on this site, you probably know just how much I love magazines, but damn, why do design magazines have to be so expensive? And don’t get me started on all the imported magazines that go for 2-3000 yen…