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Category: TB.Grafico
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Ginza the Edge
This past Friday night saw the opening of Alin Huma’s new gallery space, Ginza the Edge. The inaugural show, “Photography,” runs until February 29. It was a great turnout, and we pretty much filled up the relatively small space. The gallery actually takes up Alin’s apartment, and so every piece of “daily living” got removed…
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Food & Wine & Tokyo
A few months back I met up with the travel editor of FOOD & WINE magazine, who was in town doing a piece on Tokyo. Salma’s article appeared in the February 2008 issue, and she writes a bit about what we did on that day in this part. After we had lunch at Maisen, we…
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Gaffer Tape Typography at Nippori Station
When I went to and came back from Narita airport last week for my trip to Taipei, I passed through Nippori station, where I spotted plenty of great gaffer tape signs (the station is currently undergoing major renovations). I’m guessing it was done by Shuetsu Sato, who is famous for his previous tape signs at…
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Brockmann Light Desktop Calendar 2008
Again this year, my calendar of choice is the Groovisions-produced Brockmann desktop calendar. It changes shape every year, and this times comes in the form of 6 cubes, each covering 2 months.
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Yusaku Matsuda Exhibition 2007
I was at the Shin-Maru Biru today, having lunch at Rigoletto on the 7th floor (something me and the wife have been doing fairly regularly of late — I love their pizza). There’s currently a “Yusaku Matsuda Exhibition 2007” show going on throughout the floor, of which you can see a few photos in this…
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PROTOTYPE Exhibition Opening
I’ve put up a Flickr photoset with a few photos from last night’s opening party for the “PROTOTYPE” exhibition. It was so crowded — and I ended up chatting so much — that I didn’t get to take as many as I wanted. Be sure to find out more about participating designers at the event’s…
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INFOBAR2 Invades Ikebukuro Station
Lots of ads for the Naoto Fukasawa-designed INFOBAR2 mobile phone at Ikebukuro station.
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MUJI Xmas in Yurakucho
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the MUJI Xmas knits, later in the day I went to the MUJI Yurakucho store, and was greeted by what you see above. Make the jump for two more photos.