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Category: Art & Design
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This Week at MoCo Loco
My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Schemata Architecture Office‘s Kurage lamp (above), Shigeru Ban‘s Carbon Fiber Chair, Yuki Futa’s Isu chair, and Naoki Terada‘s Write In Measure.
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In Search of the Lost Taste
Ian Lynam has art directed and designed a new vegan cookbook by Joshua Ploeg called In Search of the Lost Taste, which he describes as “half-recipes/half-adventure/sci-fi/fantasy novella with cover illustration by comic maestro Aaron Renier and interior illustrations by the mighty overlord Nate Beaty.” Ian has a bunch of copies available for 1,200 yen postpaid…
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Design Festa Vol. 29
Couldn’t make it to this past weekend’s Design Festa (Vol. 29)? Tokyomade‘s Masao posts a Flickr photoset.
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BLACK Comme des Garcons
From the Neojaponisme Twitter feed: Comme des Garcons launching a new cheaper brand called BLACK in Shibuya Parco on June 5.
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This Week at MoCo Loco
My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Alexander Gelman’s Lohas Design Award nomination, Naoto Fukasawa for B&B Italia, Nosigner‘s “The Rose Nebuta,” and Yukio Hashimoto’s Moonbird.
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Nakameguro in Bloom
Overhead shot of Nakameguro while the cherry blossoms were in bloom in early April. Via Craig.
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Goliga Books
Andrew just brought to my attention Goliga Books, an independent Tokyo-based editorial firm that creates books about photography, art, and design for various publishers, and run by Ivan Vartanian, a former New Yorker. I see its behind Tiffany Godoy’s Style Deficit Disorder, a Harajuku fashion primer I quite enjoyed — Néojaponisme was a bit more…
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Kosuke Tsumura's Mother Piece
Fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura — here’s an interview with him from PingMag — presented his “Mother Piece” (pictured above) at the “Tokyo Fiber 09 Senseware” exhibition in Milan. Each “garment” is composed of interlocking pieces made of a soft material called felibendy. Via Designboom.
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Kiyoshi Awazu
Graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu passed away late last month — he was 80 — and Designboom features a few of his classic works. Update: Néojaponisme also shares a gallery of works by Awazu.
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TiltShift Generator Is Out
Takayuki Fukatsu’s TiltShift Generator app is now out. You can either use it online from this page, or download an Adobe AIR version.