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Month: July 2006

  • Tabaimo Interview

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    The Tokyo Art Beat blog has been getting quite active, with lots of event reviews, and they’ve just updated with a rather long interview of Japanese artist Tabaimo.

  • Cool: Creator’s Infinite Links

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    As a follow-up to my post on Mieko Sai, it seems that you can pick up the bilingual art magazine COOL at Nadiff, this bookstore in Gaienmae, and TACO Che in Nakano.

  • On Design for July

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    Just a reminder that this month’s edition of my “On Design” column appears in tomorrow’s (Tuesday) edition of THE JAPAN TIMES. In it I cover a finger-mounted optical mouse, a mower, an aluminum-based outdoor “shed,” and a stool. Update: You can now read it online here (free registration required after a week).

  • Mieko Sai

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    The other night when I was out for dinner with an old friend who was in town for a visit (at a stylish Italian restaurant in Odaiba called Fragile), I met graphic/web designer Mieko Sai, whose site you can view here (I dig the interactive cursor animation). She was telling me about a NY-based art…

  • PauseTalk Update

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    I have just updated the PauseTalk site with a (much requested) complete list of attendees at the edition we had earlier this month (Vol. 2), as well as the proposed theme for next month’s edition (which will be held on the third Monday, August 21). Also, I’m about to launch a PauseTalk mailing list, to…

  • The Latest from Decoylab

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    US-based designer Maiko Kuzinishi has been up to a few new things, including a re-design of her main site, Decoylab, adding a few new items to her webstore (including some new plates — I have the original 4, and absolutely love them), and has also started a blog to show her works in progress. If…

  • Cafe Pause Blog

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    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.

  • Cafe Surfing

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    Someone uses an iMac at Cafe Add+Ress in Ikebukuro to surf the web.