Designboom posts a few images covering the works of Yuichi Higashionna. He has a new show, “Refract,” that will run from May 16 to June 5 at Calm & Punk Gallery.

PingMag interviews capsule toy company Yujin. I was amazed to find out they come up with 25 new product ideas a month!

My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Takumi’s Mini Chimney AM humidifier, Elecom’s EGG MOUSE, and Tokujin Yoshioka’s Heaven chair.

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Naho Matsuno’s Cube 6, the new Maruni Tokyo showroom, and Hiroshi Sasagawa’s Animal Index.

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Plusminuszero’s fan, Jo Nagasaka’s Bench2, Hidebumi Yamaguchi’s IMAnoWA collection, and a new furniture collection by Steve Lidbury for Arti.

My “On Design” column for the month was in yesterday’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES (although I’m told there was a printing error that put some of the text underneath an image), and can be read online here. In it, I cover Generate Design’s “PROTOTYPE” shop, Takumi’s Icon Clock, the Comore Mizusashi watering pot, Rice-Design’s Edible Tableware, and Kyouei’s Mobile Light.

The logo you see up there? It’s real, and it’s the new logo for Japan’s DoCoMo. Read more about the change here. Via Japan Probe.

Pingmag takes a look at Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-on sound visualizer.

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering a few Japan-related Milano Salone items, Fumiaki Goto’s musical dining table, and the latest from Nosigner.

Some nice new IDs for MTV Japan by W+K Tokyo.

Very cool promotional site, “Hello World,” for Softbank by THA. I love how you can interact with the people (making them clap, for instance) and quickly zoom in and out. Via Shane Lester.

Wonderwall updates with a few new projects, including galleries for the Bape Store Harajuku, Abbey, and Sea Sky lounge and guest rooms.

I mentioned it in my Tokyo post for MoCo Loco last week, but I wanted to again bring up the fact that Generate Design have created a section of their online store to sell final versions of most of the items that were included in last December’s “PROTOTYPE” exhibition. If you’ll recall, the show took place at Keiji Ashizawa’s new studio, and featured prototypes of works from a very interesting group of Japanese and Tokyo-based designers. Ronnie from Generate was talking about doing something like this when I saw him at the show’s opening, and I’m very happy to see that it all came together.

The Speakerdog paper toy exhibition at Cafe Pause is now on! Even better, it will be running for two weeks, until April 20.

The exhibition includes 60 designs, which make up a collection of favorites from all 5 series of Speakerdog paper toys that have been released so far.

If you love what you’re seeing in these photos, go here and download any template and make one yourself!

Ben and Fiona, the fine folks behind Speakerdog, are actively looking to get submission from Japanese artists, illustrators, and designers in order to release a Japan Series later this year. You can contact them directly for more details.

As part of the exhibition, I also invited Josh McKible to bring in his first series of NaniBird paper toys, and it even includes a collaboration between Josh and Ben (pictured below).

I’ve added a few more photos in the following Flickr photoset, and will add some more over the next week.

My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Spiritual Mode’s Illumination Shower, Ideaco’s CUBE umbrella holder, and Nendo’s Kazadokei.