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Category: Art & Design

  • Naked Tokyo Call for Submissions

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    Naked Tokyo is prepping up for its next show — June 26 — and they are now accepting submissions. The details: Naked Tokyo: 2009 photography exhibition will take place on Friday, June 26, 2009, at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo, Japan. Theme is “Naked + Tokyo” — Supercharged Sexuality & Hardcore Eroticism, Gender Issues, Political Incorrectness, Ironic…

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, again with previews for next week’s Milano Salone. Included in the round-up: Studio Ito‘s Kigokoro lamp (above), Books‘ Bambi and Web chairs, Gwenael Nicolas‘ Mist Bench, Shigeru Ban‘s 10 Unit System, Naoto Fukasawa‘s lights for Panasonic, and Drill Design‘s Paper-Wood Stool.

  • Black Hall

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    “Black Hall,” one of the facilities found in the Senzoku College of Music, was designed by Terada Design — more photos over at Spoon & Tamago.

  • Tape4fun

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    Before heading off to NYC, Shantell had another Tape4fun event this past Monday in Yoyogi park — see the Flickr photoset.

  • A.i.R. Project

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    The A.i.R. Project — it stands for “Art in the Room” — is a new device from Bandai that acts as a sort of high-tech sculpture, with a combination of lights and blown air creating a soothing yet dynamic effect. It was designed by artist Taro Suzuki, and you can see it in action in…

  • Publik

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    Publik, a new Japanese site selling designs by Genevieve Guckler, Parra, and Rinzen, among others. Via JoshSpear.com.

  • AU + Yayoi Kusama

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    Am I the only person in the blogosphere who doesn’t care for Yayoi Kusama‘s new collaboration mobile phone for AU? Do you really want a phone that looks like it has a disease? I do dig the AC Adapter Midori that comes with it though (below). Via Spoon & Tamago.

  • Koganecho at Night

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    Some beautiful night photography of Koganecho (in Yokohama) at night, by Katsuyoshi Ueno.

  • Hana Table

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    Shige Hasegawa‘s Hana table, designed using an origami technique, and to be shown at the Salone Satellite in Milan later this month. Via FreshMoCo.

  • Kanpyo Udon

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    Great package design work from Nosigner on a new brand of udon noodles, Kanpyo Udon, set to go on sale in June. As Spoon & Tamago’s Johnny describes them, the noodles are ” a new type of udon that use fiber-enhancing dried gourd shavings as an addition to the typically flour-only recipe.”