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  • May Art Links

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    The Art Space Tokyo blog has a new round-up of art links, covering the month of May.

  • Newspaper to New Paper Project

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    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.

  • Interactive Web Trend Map

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    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

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    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.

  • Honda Motocompo

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    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.

  • The Bad Business of Anime

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    More depressing news on the state of the Japanese anime industry from Matt Alt.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    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.

  • New York Art Beat 1st Anniversary Party

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    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!

  • Sucker Bombaclaat Vol. 1.3

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    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.

  • Uniqlo Calendar

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    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.