From tomorrow (April 12) you can catch the iGoogle Art Cafe in Roppongi Hills. The limited-time cafe (until April 24) is part of W+K Tokyo’s artist campaign for iGoogle. Via Shane Lester’s blog.

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.

Today I put up the second poster in the “Cafe Pause Poster Series,” replacing the previous one that was designed by Ian Lynam. The new poster is by PMKFA. Thanks, Micke! Below is a better a look at the poster.

It’s been a while, but designer Koji Kimura has brought in some new chairs at the cafe. Currently there are two like the one pictured above (the other one is yellow), and I believe there will be a third one, but I’m not sure if it’ll have the same shape, or if it’s something else entirely.

A few photos from the live event by Hiroaki Koshiba and Shantell Martin held this past Sunday (March 16) at Cafe Pause, marking the end of Hiro’s exhibition at the cafe.

They each took turns on separate canvases, switching midway.

Update
Here’s a video of the two in action.

My new coffee mug, which my wife got for me the other day when we went to newly opened J.S. Burgers Cafe in Aoyama (it’s on the street that leads to the A to Z Cafe). The J.S. stands for “Journal Standard,” but I like to pretend they are the initials for my name.

Remember Claska’s first-floor The Lobby? It’s now turned into a bookstore and cafe located in Osaka. I wonder if the original one will still be part of the new Claska, once it re-opens on March 29.

Cafe Pause is currently hosting an exhibition of prints by Yuka Yamaguchi, “Strict! Japanese High School,” until January 13. It was also great to have her participate in this week’s edition of PauseTalk, where she talked about her works. I’ve put up a Flickr photoset of the show.

Update
Yuka talks about the show on her site.

• Harajuku Style Shopping Goes Global
• Rolling Stone Cafe
• Maruse Design Shop
• MUJI Xmas

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Instead of having an empty signboard at the entrance of Cafe Pause, I decided to start a seasonal poster series. First up, a contribution from Tokyo-based graphic designer Ian Lynam. Below is a better look at the poster. Thanks, Ian!

We have now launched the Cafe Pause T Gallery at Cafe Pause. All the t-shirts pictured here are for sale, and collections will rotate over time. Currently, you’ll find the 5 designs from the latest Tokyo Art Beat collection, as well as a few t-shirts from The King of Games. Prices vary: all TAB tees are 4500 yen, with the KOG tees going from 4700 to 6000 yen. Future tees and collections will be sold online through my site.

We’re always on the lookout for new tees or series to sell, so feel free to get in touch with me (please note that we do not produce any tees, only sell them at the cafe).

• RAKURA Cafe
• Mo’ MUJI

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Picked up some chocolates from the 100% Chocolate Cafe in Marunouchi today. The package design is by Groovisions.

• Marronnier Gate
• Potage Patisserie
• The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel
• Akihabara’s Bandage Girls

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Singapore’s The Analog Girl stopped by the cafe earlier today to do a soundcheck for tonight’s live performance — more details about the show here, which starts at 21:00.