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Category: Art & Design

  • Photos from Senseware

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    Couldn’t make it to last month to the 21_21 Design Sight”s “Tokyo Fiber ’09 Senseware” exhibition? TABlog has you covered with a gallery of photos from the show’s opening.

  • Amazon Kindle in Japan

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    You may have already heard the news, but if you haven’t, the Amazon Kindle is coming to Japan (and 99 other countries). While you’ve always been able to buy one wherever you are, this new international version means that you’ll able to use the 3G access to buy books anytime, anywhere. For the time being,…

  • Dai Sugano

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    Dai Sugano has a rather nice portfolio of photos and videos. Via Craig Mod.

  • Zen Foto Gallery

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    Zen Foto Gallery is a newly opened space in Shibuya that specializes in Chinese photography. TABlog interviews the owner of the gallery, Mark Peason. The inaugural exhibition is Liu Zheng’s “Dream Shock” (pictured above) — it runs until October 13.

  • Chiso Memo Block

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    The Tokyo Art Beat online store is now selling the colorful Chiso Memo Block by Kenjiro Sano.

  • Remo Camerota’s Polaroid Portraits

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    Remember Remo Camerota‘s “Polaroid Portraits” project? I previously featured some shots he took during PauseTalks — here, and then here with me. Remo has finally had a chance to give the project a proper exhibition, with the opening happening this past Saturday in New York, as part of the Mark Batty Publisher Urban Arts Fest…

  • Meiji Gets a New Logo

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    Chris Palmieri wrote a terrific post for the AQ blog about the recent redesign of the Meiji logo, which brings together the separate identities of Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ldt. and Meiji Dairies Corporation, now simply known as Meiji Group.

  • Hexad

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    Loving these hexagonal Hexad coffee tables, designed by Tomoko Azumi for Rocket Gallery in London as part of an exhibition (“Book A Table”) that runs until November 7. Looks like it was just commissioned for the show, but they should really commercialize it. Via Dezeen.

  • Touch Wood

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    DoCoMo, Sharp, Olympus, and “reforestation group” More Trees have collaborated on a new mobile phone, the “Touch Wood,” using “excess materials collected during forest thinning.” No word on any official release just yet, but it’ll show up at this week’s CREATEC JAPAN 2009 at Makuhari Messe (October 6-10). Via PSFK.

  • Elekit Tube Amp

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    Koichi Futatsumata designs the stunning tube amp pictured above — see this Dezeen post for more visuals. It was produced for Elekit, a maker of “affordable, high-end audio equipment in kit form.”