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Category: Art & Design

  • Kamon

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    Craig Anczelowitz has a produced a new collection of stationery for Awagami based on Japan’s family crests (called “kamon”). Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    In this week’s Tokyo post for MoCo Loco I cover Metaphys‘ Soh calculator (above), Terata Shunsuke’s clear wood plates, and an exhibition by Tonerico.

  • ART iT Online

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    ART iT’s planned online re-launch — replacing the print magazine — was set to launch in July, but it’s already up and running. Via TABlog.

  • TABuzz with Yosuke Kurita

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    I’ve yet to highlight TAB‘s recently launched interview feature, but better late than never. What is TABuzz? Tokyo Art Beat invites movers and thinkers from the Tokyo art world to contribute to this column. Our guest bloggers give their recommendations and thoughts on who to watch and what to see. The latest one is with…

  • The Death of Mario

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    I definitely need to catch this: “The Death of Mario,” an exhibition from artist Koshi Kawachi that tries to capture aspects from the Mario series. It runs at the Lower Akihabara gallery until June 26. Via Offworld.

  • Gundam at Night

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    I’m sure you’ve all heard about and seen the giant 1:1 replica Gundam statue in Odaiba, but have you seen lit up at night? Very nice gallery here, courtesy of Pink Tentacle.

  • May Art Links

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    The Art Space Tokyo blog has a new round-up of art links, covering the month of May.

  • Newspaper to New Paper Project

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    Very cool project from Dentsu (from Designboom): Newspaper to New Paper Project from Dentsu Tokyo for Ichida Garden. Old newspapers were overprinted to provide wrapping for fruit and veg sold by a street vendor. It was one of the winners in the Packaging category of the recently announced D&AD’s Yellow Pencil awards.

  • Interactive Web Trend Map

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    You’ve bought the poster, next up, an online interactive version of Information Architect‘s Web Trend Map, set to launch July 14. Also nice to hear that Craig is collaborating on the project.

  • Jun

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    Beautiful illustrative work by a Kyoto-based artist — the only profile info on the site lists her name (Jun) and that she’s a 21-year-old student. Via Max.