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Month: December 2009

  • Ishizuchi House

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    I have to say I quite like the openness and blockiness of Kazujuki Okamura‘s Ishizuchi House — there are more photos here, where you can better see that various parts of the home. Via MoCo Loco.

  • Beijing Noodle No. 9

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    The Great Indoors Awards were announced last week, and one of the five winners is Japanese studio Design Spirits for their Las Vegas noodle bar, Beijing Noodle No. 9. Dezeen takes a closer look at the space.

  • Google Push in Japan

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    When it comes to searching on the web, Google is king pretty much everywhere in the world, but not Japan. Nope, here, Yahoo! still reigns supreme, and Google has just started a new big push in the country to try and get more people using the G-rated search engine. The new campaign includes of course…

  • Next Week’s PauseTalk (Vol. 36)

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    Time to remind everyone that this coming Monday (December 7) is this month’s edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 36). As always, the event will take place at Cafe Pause, with an official start time of 20:00. Also, I invite everyone to come earlier to hang out a bit before the official talk session starts — the…

  • Tokyo Blues

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    Color me jealous: former Tokyo resident Adam Greenfield — and current head of design direction at Nokia in Finland — is one of the people behind the newly-launched Do Projects, which has the following goals: Develop words and images that make the people who encounter them re-see themselves and the world around them; find the…

  • Japanese Graphic Design

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    I don’t really get what the context is for this post that features a few examples of classic Japanese graphic design work, but I sure like it. Via FFFFFOUND. Update: Ian Lynam says: “It’s about things that look like infographics, but actually represent no real information.”

  • Game Center Dilemma

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    Matt Alt shares the responses from a 2channel post that asks Japanese gamers what they play when they go to game centers. The last one he highlights is a bit sad (but almost understandable): Whenever my friends and I go to the game center we basically stand around for a while and leave because there…

  • Feeling Good About Uniqlo

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    Marxy explains the success of Uniqlo over at The Business of Fashion blog. My favorite bit from the piece: In fact, perhaps the brand’s most powerful asset is its neutrality. Wearing Uniqlo carries no meaning of its own. It’s as close as apparel has ever come to interchangeable LEGO blocks.