2006.06.14
- TITLE (76) offers up a “Tokyo Relax Tour,” which is well worth picking up as it has some attractive picks — the feature even includes a tilt shift lens shot by photographer of the year (in my book at least) Naoki Honjo! There’s also a rather nice survey of the works of design unit Intentionallies.
- The latest issue of STUDIO VOICE (367) is devoted to photography, presented in the form of lessons, with tips from major names in the field. There’s also a guide to the must-see anime of 2006.
- I’ve lost count, but the new BRUTUS (595) is the umpteenth issue of a magazine devoted to book surveys I’ve seen this year. This time, the list includes 730 titles, which are presented in various categories, as well as lists by various celebrities.
- As I mentioned before, the latest PEN (177) devotes its entire issue to an exhaustive look at the life and works of designer Kashiwa Sato. It’s actually better than a lot of designer profiles/monographs I’ve seen in book form.
- Following Italy last month, this month’s CASA BRUTUS (76) heads to Germany. There’s obviously a heavy focus on World Cup-related material (like a look at all the new soccer stadiums), but still, it’s a rather nice guide to all the country’s architectural highlights, and would make a nice guide of things you should try checking out during a visit. They also include a pull-out “gluttons” guide to Tokyo restaurants. I also quite liked the article that shows Kazuyo Sejima (of SANAA) giving a workshop to kids about architecture, in which they go through all the steps of construction, from planning, all the way to creating playhouse-sized buildings out of cardboard.
- OK, it’s official, I’ve lost interest in RELAX, with the new issue’s (113) “Relax_Season Diaries 2006″ feature just the latest in a series of un-engaging topics that revolve around relaxation and health. There are still a few interesting things to find in the back pages, but I’m not even sure I’m going to bother picking it up (or browsing) for that anymore. RELAX has become just too “relaxed” for my tastes.
- This month’s issue of SOTOKOTO (85) presents the “LOHAS Design Award 2006″ selections. Is it just me, or can pretty much anything be considered LOHAS-friendly?
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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
September 1.
