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Category: Design

  • Miyamoto on Game Design

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    Great little video produced by Vox interviewing Shigeru Miyamoto about game design, and also giving a bit of history on his start.

  • New Year Love from AQ and KDa

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    I don’t receive New Year cards (nengajo) like I used to — although I still enjoy looking at a lot of them, courtesy of Spoon & Tamago and 8-4. In fact, I only received two this year, but they were both from people I love so much. Up top is the card sent by design crew AQ,…

  • Oral History of Final Fantasy VII

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    I haven’t read the whole thing yet, but I’m in awe of the massive oral history of Final Fantasy VII that was published on Polygon last week. It’s pretty fantastic to see this sort of intensely researched piece get made in this day and age of fast content for the web.

  • Groovisions iMessage Stickers

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    I have so much love for Groovisions, absolutely my favorite graphic design unit from the 2000s, and not only are they being celebrated right now in Tokyo courtesy of an exhibition at Spiral — which I’d so love to check out — they’ve also released a set of animated stickers for use in iMessage.

  • Interactive Story and Video Game Art

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    A few years ago I had the great pleasure to include game developer and academic Chris Solarski in one of our PechaKucha Night events in Tokyo — where he did this presentation about his book Drawing Basics and Video Game Art. He has a second book out now, Interactive Story and Video Game Art, which…

  • Tokyo Saryo

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    Fuck hand-drip coffee, here’s the arrival of hand-drip green tea, which you can get at this newly opened — and beautifully minimalist in design — cafe in Sangenjaya, called Tokyo Saryo. More details and photos in this Spoon & Tamago post.

  • 2017 New Year Cards by Designers

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    Spoon & Tamago has posted its annual round-up of New Year cards sent out by designers/design offices, and as always, it’s a great collection of imagery that celebrates that year’s animal, which this year is the rooster. Pictured, the card sent out by illustrator Minoru Arita. I can’t wait for the 8-4 PLAY blog to…

  • Nara Versus W.Lab

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    File this under “ridiculous.” We all know the art of Yoshitomo Nara (I’m a longtime fan), and over the years there have certainly been plenty of cases of Nara pakkuri (stealing/copying) — I myself was fooled by the art on the Fukigen bottle back in 2003. Well, there’s been another case, this time by Korean cosmetics…

  • Mr. Saturn Cases

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    Yesterday I was pointing out the fantastic Mother-themed planners from Hobonichi Techo, but I failed to point out the also excellent Mr. Saturn cases. I kinda want them all.

  • Hobonichi Techo 2017

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    I haven’t used a paper planner in years and so can’t really justify getting one (I even still bought one for years, that would never see much use), but I still lust for one every year, and the object of my desire is always the Mother-inspired covers that have been part of the Hobonichi Techo collection…