More guerilla retailing from Uniqlo in the US:
Uniqlo will deliver container stores modeled after a ship’s cargo containers to various locations in Manhattan and beyond during Labor Day weekend, according to Women’s Wear Daily. As a precursor to the October opening of Uniqlo’s 36,000-sq.-ft. flagship in SoHo, the container stores will operate every weekend until the flagship opens. The exterior of the container stores is made from corrugated metal, while the inside is fitted with shelves. The container stores, which are arriving from Tokyo, will be transported from the pier on flatbed trucks, then lifted by cranes and placed on streets throughout New York. Merchandise in the container stores will vary to reflect the demographics of each neighborhood. The SoHo flagship will be the largest of the company’s 730 stores worldwide. (
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Time-lapse video of busy Tokyo, set to a track by the Teriyaki Boyz. Link via Boing Boing.
Me, in full action pose, sporting my snazzy new W.A.S.T.E. tee. Don’t know W.A.S.T.E.? They are of course the evil nemesis of supercool agent Casanova Quinn, and if you aren’t already, you gotta be reading the new CASANOVA comic by my friend, and probably undercover special agent himself, Matt Fraction, featuring gorgeous art by Gabriel Ba.
I’ve mentioned the work of Maku Remu in the past — he also did the Knee High Media site, as well as the recently launched blog for MAMMOTH magazine — and his latest site is for an all-girl grunge/punk band from Fukuoka, BO-PEEP, who are getting set for a second tour in the UK this year in October (they have a growing fanbase there). The sheep you find scattered throughout the site are by Junko Kanamori, who is again working with Maku Remu on the design of the band’s next album release.
Rather nice packaging and logo design for the new Acuo gum, done by Nendo. Link via Design BLOG.
Some beautiful cityscapes from Yuki. She shared a few more at PauseTalk this past Monday.
It’s really the day for previews and trailers: here’s one for the upcoming GHOST IN THE SHELL: SOLID STATE SOCIETY film, which is a follow-up to the 2 recent STAND ALONE COMPLEX series, not the Mamoru Oshii-directed films.
You can view a long-ish preview (low, medium, high) of Katsuhiro Otomo’s upcoming FREEDOM project — what you saw in those recent Cup Noodle commercials — which gets released in October (part 1 will be out October 27). From the look of this preview, I think this is going to make AKIRA fans very, very happy.
Shift Blog has info on an upcoming series of live performances by Masakatsu Takagi at the Laforet Museum in October.
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