Very cool project from Dentsu (from Designboom):
Newspaper to New Paper Project from Dentsu Tokyo for Ichida Garden. Old newspapers were overprinted to provide wrapping for fruit and veg sold by a street vendor.
It was one of the winners in the Packaging category of the recently announced D&AD’s Yellow Pencil awards.
Jun 14, 2009
You’ve bought the poster, next up, an online interactive version of Information Architect‘s Web Trend Map, set to launch July 14. Also nice to hear that Craig is collaborating on the project.
Jun 12, 2009
Beautiful illustrative work by a Kyoto-based artist — the only profile info on the site lists her name (Jun) and that she’s a 21-year-old student. Via Max.
Jun 12, 2009
Man, how awesome was the Honda Motocompo. Designboom posts a series of images from an original sales catalogue that dates back to the early eighties.
Jun 12, 2009
More depressing news on the state of the Japanese anime industry from Matt Alt.
Jun 11, 2009
My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering a couple of prototypes from Nosigner for KDDI’s iida line, a Muji and Rebita collaboration, and a color update to 100%’s Straw Vase.
Jun 11, 2009
New York Art Beat is celebrating its 1st anniversary with a party and exhibition this Saturday (June 13, from 19:00) at the Dumbo Arts Center. The event will include lots of performances, including Shantell and Hiro. Here’s wishing everyone a great event, and a long life for the site!
Jun 11, 2009
It’s here, the new mix from Tokyo Fun Party‘s SoccerBoy, a whopping 55 tracks in 65 minutes for 450 yen, now being sold at the following stores: Technique, Ticro Market, Flake Records, and Jet Set, which offers international shipping.
Jun 11, 2009
Uniqlo does it again, introducing yet another flash web app to help promote the brand, this time in the form of a calendar that shuffles time-lapse videos of tilt-shift style photos. Looks great, and they’ll release it as a screensaver soon too. Via Marxy.
Jun 10, 2009
I’ve been really wanting to see Ryoji Ikeda’s “+/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo — I even included it as a recommendation in a recent edition of the Superfuture Superguide for Tokyo — but haven’t had a chance to see it myself yet. Looks like Max quite enjoyed it, based on the rather extensive review he’s written for it on his blog.
Jun 9, 2009
Tokyo-based eco collective PangeaSeed is organizing an event, “No Fin No Future,” on July 30 at SuperDeluxe. From the official website:
PangeaSeed will feature a special screening of the award winning documentary Sharkwater. The event will be supported by special guest speaker, Kim McCoy of the Shark Angels, guest bands, and DJ. As well as a charity art exhibition which will feature some of the worlds most sought-after modern artists, photographers, and designers.
These individuals have all donated their time and extraordinary talents to creating one of a kind originals and/or contributing existing artwork to help raise awareness and save one of the worlds most important and misunderstood animals. All artwork will be available for purchase and proceeds will be donated to an organization helping to save sharks.
Some of the works are on display here.
Jun 9, 2009
Another PauseTalk (Vol. 32), another great audience. Seems like the new plan to reserve Cafe Pause for the event was justified since we again ended up with a 30+ crowd, and the new table arrangement — a pixelated triangle, courtesy of the cafe’s manager — made for a better round-table discussion. We covered quite a few interesting topics and projects, and got a nice preview of Patrick W. Galbraith‘s upcoming The Otaku Encyclopedia, out in Japan later this month.
Something else I tried for the first time was to have an attendance sheet (pictured above), since I’ve had trouble in the past in remembering everyone’s name for these posts. The list is still incomplete, but is much better than what I would have come up with on my own. Huge thanks also to Remo Camerota for the great photos posted in this entry — take a look also at some examples of his “Polaroid Project.” The next PauseTalk happens July 6.
Jun 5, 2009
The great polaroid montages you see in this post are part of Remo Camerota‘s new “Polaroid Portraits” project. The project will eventually be shown in an exhibition in Tokyo, and what you see here are some of the latest additions, taken during this week’s PauseTalk (Vol. 32). Above, James Okubo and Erika Nishizato, below, Anna Antoniades and Hawken King. He’ll be doing some more at the next PauseTalk — he’s threatened to get me in one.
Jun 5, 2009
I’ve been meaning to mention it for a while, but a second Kenta Cho shooter is now available for iPhone in the form of Noiz2sa. To be honest, I don’t like it as much as rRootage, but it’s still good fun. For those of you who don’t know, Kenta Cho is an acclaimed independent developer of abstract shooting games, and also the centerpiece of the shmup (shoot ‘em up) chapter in Arcade Mania.
Jun 5, 2009
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 June 4.
We hereby define a new term, that of the magaziner, described as a person who exerts an unhealthy amount of love for all things magazine. The Magaziner is a site that mostly focuses on the intersection between magazines and the digital frontier, and what it means for the medium. This does not preclude the inclusion of a healthy amount of print love.
Jean Snow is a contributor to Arcade Mania, your guide to the arcade gaming scene in Japan (Amazon US/Amazon Japan). He also provided assistance on Tokyolife: Art and Design, a guide to Tokyo's cultural output of the past few years, covering the works of over 80 influential creatives.
He will be contributing to the upcoming fifth editions of The Rough Guide to Tokyo and The Rough Guide to Japan, due for release in 2011.
Jean Snow is Executive Director of the PechaKucha organization. He also helps run the PechaKucha Night in Tokyo -- please get in touch if you are interested in presenting at a future event. For a more intimate salon-like discussion group, join him at his monthly PauseTalk event.
A longtime resident of Tokyo, he lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online/offline publications, including the following: Time, Inside (Australian Design Review), Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Kotaku, 1UP, Tokyo Q, Superfuture, OK Fred, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, I.D. (International Design), Metropolis, Azure, MoCo Loco, Kateigaho International Edition, Wired's Game|Life, PingMag, CNNGo, Phaidon, and The Japan Times.
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