2008.05.11
- BRUTUS (639) asks “How do you live?” and reports with a look at the ways people find to make their homes what they are. I tend to be quite fascinated by these peaks into people’s homes (an obsession I share with the way people work as well), and so I love this sort of feature. The magazine’s insert, the “Interior Book 2008,” covers furniture ideas in various style categories.
- STUDIO VOICE (390) presents its “Temporary Guide for Absolute DVD Collectors,” and as you’d imagine, they manage to offer a pretty decent list of the titles (280 in all) that you should include in your collection. There were a few that I didn’t really get though — Kim Basinger’s CELLULAR?
- This month’s EYESCREAM (2008/06) is the skateboard culture issue and features coverage of plenty of skaters, as well as artists, brands, and companies that revolve around the world of skating.
- Can’t say that I found much to like in the latest PEN (221), with its “Discovering Dino World” feature. I’ve just never had much of an interest in dinosaurs, even as a child (unless they’re biting off someone’s head on the big screen or in a game).
- Even though I didn’t care much for the cover feature on business tools (mostly covering suits and leather accessories), there’s always a lot of good stuff to find in the pages of REAL DESIGN, and the latest issue (24) is no different.
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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.
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June 2.
the brutus is fab (save for the stupid graf/INAX infomercial and some of the sillier lush california houses) - for me only the 3rd one worth keeping in the last 3 years.
the, however small, feature on the sawada aptmts is great and it should be mentioned in reference to the recent reference here to the pingmag feature that there is what you could call a boom of interest in danchi; quite a number of newly published books on the subject aside from what was mentioned there .
> unless they’re biting off someone’s head on the big screen or in a game
Indeed. Rampage kicked ass!