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Month: December 2009

  • Kaoiro

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    Mixing digital culture with a bit of old-school stationery love, the Kaoiro stamp from Ginghami lets you stamp out all those kaomoji “faces” found in text/email correspondence in Japan.

  • House 01

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    The thing about sci-fi-esque House 01 — a project designed by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects — that surprises me the most is that it’s currently under construction. See this post over at Designboom for more details.

  • Peace Sweater at TAB Shop

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    Some good news if you’ve been wanting to get your hands on the Peace Sweater — which I covered in my “On Design” column last month — as it’s now available for purchase online through the TAB Shop.

  • A Mathematician’s House

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    Another fine Japanese home — yes, yet another — to gently drool over, this time “A Mathematician’s House” (named after the owner, maybe) in Hiroshima. It was designed by Tetsuya Nakazono. Via Dezain.net.

  • 0300TV Visits 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

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    0300TV has another great video tour up, this time covering the SANAA-designed 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. Via Dezain.net.

  • PMKFA Site Re-launches

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    Tokyo-based graphic designer Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) has just re-launched his website. I’m happy to announce that a brand new version of www.pmkfa.com is open. With new content only and hundreds of images from projects that PMKFA have been involved in, everything downloadable as PDF’s so you can view the work offline, a extensive press archive…

  • Books We Make

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    If you followed the link in my last post about next year’s Web Trend Map Atlas, you’ll find Oliver mention that the project will be done in collaboration with “Books We Make.” Visiting the website, I see that it’s a new project by Craig Mod, and I’m quite upset that I don’t know anything about…

  • Web Trend Map Atlas

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    GaijinPot.com interviews Information Architect’s Oliver Reichenstein, in which he talks about the Web Trend Map, and reveals that for next year they are planning on releasing a book — a Web Trend Map Atlas — to be published just in time for Christmas 2010.

  • Panwriter

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    The Japanese Index Typewriter MAC M-40, otherwise known as the “Panwriter.” What a beautiful device, and it’s available for purchase on eBay. This is a Japanese typewriter “Panwriter.” Manufactured by Nippon Typewriter Company. This machine still works. Japanese can be printed very clearly. The character about 2000 or more is usually used in Japan. Each…

  • Photo Salad

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    PauseTalker and photographer Stephen Lebovits — who also works at the Design Festa gallery — has posted an invitation for an upcoming photography-related event that’s happening there called “Photo Salad.” Design Festa is having a blow-out photo event next month – all 3 floors of the East Gallery will be taken over by Phat Photo…