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Category: Art & Design

  • Honda Motocompo

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    Man, how awesome was the Honda Motocompo. Designboom posts a series of images from an original sales catalogue that dates back to the early eighties.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering a couple of prototypes from Nosigner for KDDI’s iida line, a Muji and Rebita collaboration, and a color update to 100%’s Straw Vase.

  • New York Art Beat 1st Anniversary Party

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    New York Art Beat is celebrating its 1st anniversary with a party and exhibition this Saturday (June 13, from 19:00) at the Dumbo Arts Center. The event will include lots of performances, including Shantell and Hiro. Here’s wishing everyone a great event, and a long life for the site!

  • Uniqlo Calendar

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    Uniqlo does it again, introducing yet another flash web app to help promote the brand, this time in the form of a calendar that shuffles time-lapse videos of tilt-shift style photos. Looks great, and they’ll release it as a screensaver soon too. Via Marxy.

  • +/-

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    I’ve been really wanting to see Ryoji Ikeda’s “+/- [the infinite between 0 and 1]” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo — I even included it as a recommendation in a recent edition of the Superfuture Superguide for Tokyo — but haven’t had a chance to see it myself yet. Looks like Max…

  • PangeaSeed

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    Tokyo-based eco collective PangeaSeed is organizing an event, “No Fin No Future,” on July 30 at SuperDeluxe. From the official website: PangeaSeed will feature a special screening of the award winning documentary Sharkwater. The event will be supported by special guest speaker, Kim McCoy of the Shark Angels, guest bands, and DJ. As well as…

  • Polaroid Portraits

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    The great polaroid montages you see in this post are part of Remo Camerota‘s new “Polaroid Portraits” project. The project will eventually be shown in an exhibition in Tokyo, and what you see here are some of the latest additions, taken during this week’s PauseTalk (Vol. 32). Above, James Okubo and Erika Nishizato, below, Anna…

  • Naked Tokyo 2009

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    This year’s edition of the “Naked Tokyo” exhibition is happening soon, a one-night event on June 26 at SuperDeluxe. It’s of course very nice to see that a few friends and PauseTalkers are participating, and I do look forward to checking out all the works (I’ve unfortunately missed passed showings). Above, a photo by Carla…

  • Web Trend Map 4

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    Information Architects have released the fourth edition of their annual Web Trend Map, and it’s looking better than ever, all in black. IA’s Oliver Reichenstein dropped by PauseTalk earlier this week, and to hear it from him, it was actually quite an involved process to get the poster produced this year — see photos from…

  • Carl Randall's Portrait Project

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    Carl Randall is a Ph.D. student in oil painting at Tokyo National University of Arts, and he’s looking for volunteers for a new project. He’s currently on the lookout for hundreds of people to pose for portraits that would appear on large canvases, and later exhibited in Tokyo and London. If interested, you can get…