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Month: August 2007
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This Week at MoCo Loco
My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco. This week I cover the two new products from Kyouei (Umbrella Pot and Topography Soup Plate), an event for 60VISION, and Bridge Design‘s HANA-MI.
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On Design for August 2007
This month’s edition of my “On Design” column is in today’s THE JAPAN TIMES, and can be found online here. In it, I cover KYOSHO‘s MANOI PF01 hobby robot, the MACINARI-TAKUMI pens and pencils, POM2‘s “Mine-Remove Sticker Program,” Flames‘ TU-KI light, and Flask’s Flower Kitchen Clip.
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New Karl Escritt T-Shirts
Kyoto-based Karl Escritt is had created a new collection of t-shirts for Eno in Shanghai. You can see all the designs here, and it seems that there will be a full online shop up within a few weeks.
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TABlog: Tokyo Galleries
TABlog has a nice round-up of the latest generation of galleries to dot the city’s artscape.
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Tokyo Wonderland
I mentioned Tokyo-based photographer Jonathan Savoie a while back (he’s from Eastern Canada, like me), and this time it’s for an online project called Tokyo Wonderland, which accompanies a book to be released in the fall.
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PingMag: Sou Sou’s Jikatabi
PingMag covers modern jikatabi (“split-toe canvas shoes with rubber soles that are favored by construction workers”) designs from Kyoto-based Sou Sou.
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Classic JAL Bags
Patrick Benny went to Haneda Airport yesterday to pick up some re-issues of classic Japan Air Lines flight bags, both pictured above. They were limited to 1000, so are probably all gone now.