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  • Last Week at MoCo Loco

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    Last week’s Tokyo post at MoCo Loco covered Riki Watabe’s new Riki Air Clock for Lemnos (above), Elecom‘s new keyboards with crystal clear keys, and Jo Nagasaka‘s Paco living unit. Note: my weekly “This Week from Tokyo” series for MoCo Loco is going on hiatus for the month, as the site undergoes some major changes.…

  • Nagoya Design Week 2009

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    Tokyo Design Week is less than a month away (October 30-November 3), but you can get an earlier hit of design event-ness if you head out to Nagoya next week for Nagoya Design Week 2009 (October 14-18).

  • Liminal

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    For his upcoming lecture at “Arttalking #4 ‘On the Street,’” Ian Lynam has produced a limited edition and numbered booklet, pictured above. More details on the event itself — which happens October 8 — here.

  • Urbanized Typeface

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    PSFK covers Takahiro Yamaguchi’s “Urbanized Typeface: Shibuya 08-09,” and interactive installation that presents a typeface he created by riding his GPS-equipped bike. It’s presented as part of the ICC’s yearlong “Open Space 2009” exhibition.

  • Typography 101

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    Ian Lynam is teaching the Typography 101 class again this semester at Temple University Japan — today (September 29) is the last day you have to enroll, with the class starting tomorrow. Ian describes the class in this post over at META no TAME, and you can sign up here.

  • Kinshachi Font Project

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    SHOTYPE‘s Kunihiko Okano covers on the Tokyo-based foundry’s blog the Kinshachi font project, an interesting new endeavor that looks to create a new city-specific typeface for Nagoya — it’s part of the larger Cityfont Project, developed by Type Project’s Isao Suzuki.

  • Terashima Design Poster Exhibition

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    Hokkaido’s Terashima Design is currently holding a web exhibition of posters that were produced in-house. It goes offline after September 30. Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • Four Boxes Gallery

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    Following yesterday’s Atelier Bow-Wow studio tour, now we get a look at one of their latest projects: Four Boxes Gallery, a building for Danish college Krabbesholm Hojskole. There’s more to see at Designboom.

  • Happening in Tokyo

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    French-Cameroonian designer Serge Mouangue is hosting the “WAfrica: A Dialogue with Japanese Culture” event (October 3-23) at the French Institute in Tokyo, with the intent of “[introducing] Japan to Africa in previously unimagined ways.” The Tokyo Game Show starts today at Makuhari Messe with two business days, but Saturday and Sunday (September 26-27) are open…

  • Exhibition Design in Kanazawa by Nendo

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    Nendo is designing the exhibition space for the upcoming “The Current State of Kanazawa Crafts” show, to be held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, October 13-25. The exhibition acts as a Kanazawa World Crafttriennial 2010 pre-event.