Jesper had a chance to go see PMKFA‘s solo exhibition in Barcelona, “A Bag of Grease” (until July 31), and offers up these photos of the show.

Dezeen has a few photos up of the Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161 in Basel.

I’m surprised I missed this — I was even in Ginza yesterday for one of my gallery tours — but Swatch Group Japan’s Nicolas G. Hayek Center (7-9-18 Ginza), designed by Shigeru Ban, is now open. The photo above comes from this TimeZone post, which includes a few more shots of the building.

Remember that Uniqlock site I pointed to last week? It’s now live, and turns out that it’s a flash-based clock featuring music by Fantastic Plastic Machine, and includes a widget (as seen above) that you can put on your site. You can only do Tokyo right now, but other cities will be added very soon. Thanks again to Patrick for the heads-up.

I stopped by the Ginza Graphic Gallery yesterday to have a look at the current exhibition (until June 27) covering the works of Masaki Hiromura, and quite liked what I saw, enough to pick up the accompanying GGG Books (81) volume for the show. The signage work alone he did for the CODAN Shinonome residential complex is enough to make me want to live there!

Rather nice site from ad agency TBWA/Hakuhodo. I stopped by the Guardian Garden gallery in Ginza yesterday for Kenjiro Sano’s “Botsu” exhibition — Sano works for Hakuhodo Design — and I liked the way they presented the show (walls are covered, floor-to-ceiling, with printed out A4-sized pages of his work). Link via JoshSpear.com.

• Chelsea Cafe
• Burger King in Japan
• Tokyo Big Sight
• Sunshine Studio

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Tim Rudder is offering up prints of some of his recent photos, so best to go quick and take him up on his offer now!

Update
Please take note that you’ll need to cover the printing and postage cost.

Dezeen posts some photos from the “Vitra Edition 2007″ show in Basel. Above is the Kimono Chair from Tokujin Yoshioka, and below a series from Naoto Fukasawa.

I know a lot of you have commented on the seemingly dead — or resting — MoCo Tokyo site that I used to edit. Harry, the MC of all things MoCo, has been quietly working on some things that I can’t get into, but as of this week I’m finally back in the MoCo family. The first thing you’ll be seeing from me is a series of posts, “This Week from Tokyo,” the first of which is up now. It’ll be a weekly round-up of design news and happenings, appearing every Wednesday.

This is just so great. It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of comics/BD/manga, and I do enjoy taking in art shows as well, and so Tokyo Art Beat has come up with the idea of combining the two for a new series of comic art reviews by Jun-Pierre Shiozawa! The first strip covers the Leonardo Da Vinci show at the Tokyo National Museum.

Roland Kelt’s JAPANAMERICA now has a Japanese edition, and the launch party happens tonight (June 14) at SuperDeluxe (start time is 18:00, with free entry). The celebrations will continue with a few more events, including a night of cosplay at the Pink Cow on June 19.

I’ve been waiting for Marxy to comment on this month’s issue of TOKION JAPAN, with a cover feature on Hiroshi Fujiwara, and now here it is. It’s not exactly what you’d expect.

MoCo Loco posts some more of my photos from last week’s “Interior Lifestyle” show.

Graniph recently announced the winners of their first design awards. The gold prize went to Jonathan Lax of Israel for the image you see in this post, as well as 4 more. You can view all the prize winners (gold, silver, and bronze) here.