Arata Sasaki

HITS FAMILY

At one of the events I attended last Friday — the Soe store opening in Nakameguro — I met a web designer by the name of Arata Sasaki. Looking at his work, there’s definitely a lot to like, from the website for his company, KOTENHITS (which includes the NO JAPAN JAPAN webzine pictured above), as well as the HITSPAPER design blog to which he’s a contributing editor. He also blogs by himself here.

Category: Design • Web

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Thank you very much.
It’s arata sasaki.I wanna talk with you more tiem.I’ll talk to you soon.

08.03.31 23:34
Posted by arata sasaki
Cool, looking forward to seeing you again!

08.03.31 23:40
Posted by Jean Snow
Thanks for the soe plug!

08.04.04 18:43
Posted by Martin Webb
I would have plugged it more, but unfortunately I was so busy chatting while I was there that I didn’t take any photos to share!

08.04.04 18:50
Posted by Jean Snow

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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 August 4 (there is no July edition).