Month: July 2006
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Cafe Pause Blog
The manager at Cafe Pause has just started a blog for the cafe, which she will be updating herself. The picture you see here is of yours truly, hard at work on creating labels for I believe the Canadian Style event back in February.
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Get Your Head #2
“Get Your Head #2” is a new piece from Akiko Sakaizumi, and you can watch a video of the work — which is also available for purchase here — on YouTube.
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Pharmaceutical Pictograms
Funky new pictograms by the Risk/Benefit Assessment of Drugs-Analysis and Response (RAD-AR) Council of Japan found on pharmaceutical packaging. More here. Link via Core77.
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Muji Vs. Mammoth
From the recent exhibition at Atelier Muji in Yurakucho, which featured a collaboration between MAMMOTH magazine and Muji, in the form of stamps for the D.I.Y. Muji bags.
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Fukasawa Vs. Satoh
The 21_21 site has been updated with a talk between Naoto Fukasawa and Taku Satoh. Link via Dezain.net.
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Miru-Kenchiku Relaunch
Miru-Kenchiku has just relaunched with a new site (and new domain), and offers up new galleries of Toyo Ito’s MIKIMOTO Ginza 2 and Tadao Ando’s Omotesando Hills.
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This Week at Gridskipper
Tokyo Luxury Hotels Aoyama Cafes You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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Ikebukuro International Art Festival
An international art festival in my hood of Ikebukuro!?! Cool!
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Muji Buys Out Idee
A reader sends me some very intriguing news. It would seem that Muji has bought out the remains of Idee. Idee has been in a bit of a state, following founder Teruo Kurosaki’s selling of his interests in the company, and so this comes as a bit of a surprise twist. What this means for…