Category: Art & Design

  • OPEN Skateboards T-shirt

    Here’s a look at an upcoming t-shirt for OPEN Skateboards, based on the Kiyoshi Awazu homage board. The tees will be very limited, and should go on sale on the site soon.

  • TAB iPhone App Startup Screen

    It may not have come out in November as promised (it will soon though), but here’s a sneak peek at what the startup screen for Tokyo Art Beat‘s iPhone app will look like. The image was created by AQ‘s Eiko Nagase.

  • Kaoiro

    Mixing digital culture with a bit of old-school stationery love, the Kaoiro stamp from Ginghami lets you stamp out all those kaomoji “faces” found in text/email correspondence in Japan.

  • House 01

    The thing about sci-fi-esque House 01 — a project designed by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects — that surprises me the most is that it’s currently under construction. See this post over at Designboom for more details.

  • Peace Sweater at TAB Shop

    Some good news if you’ve been wanting to get your hands on the Peace Sweater — which I covered in my “On Design” column last month — as it’s now available for purchase online through the TAB Shop.

  • A Mathematician’s House

    Another fine Japanese home — yes, yet another — to gently drool over, this time “A Mathematician’s House” (named after the owner, maybe) in Hiroshima. It was designed by Tetsuya Nakazono. Via Dezain.net.

  • 0300TV Visits 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

    0300TV has another great video tour up, this time covering the SANAA-designed 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. Via Dezain.net.

  • PMKFA Site Re-launches

    Tokyo-based graphic designer Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) has just re-launched his website. I’m happy to announce that a brand new version of www.pmkfa.com is open. With new content only and hundreds of images from projects that PMKFA have been involved in, everything downloadable as PDF’s so you can view the work offline, a extensive press archive…

  • Web Trend Map Atlas

    GaijinPot.com interviews Information Architect’s Oliver Reichenstein, in which he talks about the Web Trend Map, and reveals that for next year they are planning on releasing a book — a Web Trend Map Atlas — to be published just in time for Christmas 2010.

  • Panwriter

    The Japanese Index Typewriter MAC M-40, otherwise known as the “Panwriter.” What a beautiful device, and it’s available for purchase on eBay. This is a Japanese typewriter “Panwriter.” Manufactured by Nippon Typewriter Company. This machine still works. Japanese can be printed very clearly. The character about 2000 or more is usually used in Japan. Each…