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Category: Art & Design

  • Photo Salad

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    PauseTalker and photographer Stephen Lebovits — who also works at the Design Festa gallery — has posted an invitation for an upcoming photography-related event that’s happening there called “Photo Salad.” Design Festa is having a blow-out photo event next month – all 3 floors of the East Gallery will be taken over by Phat Photo…

  • Rroomm

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    A fun idea, if possibly a maddening one: Rroomm is a clothing shop in Osaka that was recently renovated by architects Ninkipen, and the main feature is a series of eleven doors, six of which are fake. Via Dezeen.

  • Secret Garden

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    I have to say I’m quite a fan of these secret gardens you hear about, located on Tokyo rooftops. The one pictured above is not in Tokyo, but rather in Isezaki (Gunma prefecture), and was designed by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. I’ve been told that KDa‘s Astrid Klein has one of her own.

  • Fixie Girl

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    Tim Rudder took the afternoon to draw a girl on a fixed gear bike, and walks us through the process.

  • Portraits from PauseTalk Vol. 36

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    I’ll have the list of participants from last night’s PauseTalk (Vol. 36) up later today or tomorrow, but in the meantime I wanted to share the latest round of portraits taken by Max Hodges, which are all viewable in this gallery. As with last time, I’m really loving these, and I’m hoping that Max keeps…

  • Kokeshi

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    Very nice modern take on the traditional Japanese Kokeshi doll, by Pen Pencil Stencil. Via Josh McKible.

  • INCUBOT Productions

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    Matt Alt and Alen Yen have teamed up to form Incubot Productions, a company that plans to release retro robot collectibles. First up are the Nekobot USB robots (pictured above), with a 2GB capacity, and now on sale through their site.

  • Street Art in Tokyo

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    A video showing street art and stickers in Tokyo, from the RUN FFM Popculture blog.

  • Mr. Sanpo

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    Mr. Sanpo — also known as Sir Sanps-a-lot — is a new papercraft design that was introduced by Josh McKible at the recent “Urban Paper” exhibition at the Cafe Pause. Josh has made the templates for Mr. Sanpo available for download — you can get either the original designs, or blank templates that let you…

  • Sia Aoyama Building

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    0300TV has put together a rather nice video of the Sia Aoyama Building, designed by Jun Aoki. Via Dezain.net.