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Category: Art & Design

  • OK Fred Uniform

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    OK, consider me jealous. Pictured, OK Fred ‘s Yoshi, sporting an emblazoned jacket he received last week as a birthday present.

  • Chocolate Cake Blogs

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    Cape Town-based — but Japan loving — production company Chocolate Cake is now blogging. To find out more about the Japan connection, see this post from last year.

  • Suming Up Tokyo Art Week

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    Antonin (Digiki) — one of the founders of 101TOKYO — gives his take on the art week (101TOKYO, Art Fair Tokyo) that was.

  • Luis Mendo’s Tokyo Diary

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    Art director Luis Mendo decided to take a 3-month “inspirational retreat” in Tokyo, and he’s been keeping some brilliantly illustrated diaries of his everyday experiences — see the Flickr photoset of some of the pages. He’s also putting together a great web-based diary of his Tokyo adventures, featuring photos, videos, etc.

  • Eclipse Light

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    The latest post I did for MoCo Loco includes news of the Designersblock exhibition at this month’s Milano Salone featuring works by Chris Kirby, Drill Design, Mikiya Kobayashi, and Keiji Ashizawa. The item Keiji will be showing is the Eclipse Light (above and below). The Eclipse is made up of a circular sheet that is…

  • Generate LE*

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    Ronnie of Generate Design sends me word that they have now opened a bilingual (English/Japanese) section of their site — Generate LE* — to sell rare and limited items. Above, the Pool light by In Design.

  • PMKFA, the Book

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    Tokyo-based Swedish graphic designer Michael Thorsby (PMKFA) has released his first book through French brand Sixpack. The tome covers works from throughout his career, and is available for purchase online.

  • This Week at MoCo Loco

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    My weekly Tokyo post for MoCo Loco is up, again with coverage of Japan-related projects to be shown at this month’s Milano Salone. Above, Chris Kirby‘s Spiral Lamp.

  • ART iT Goes Online-Only

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    I happened to pick up the latest issue of ART iT (23) yesterday for the cafe, and now I learn that it’s the final issue (or close to it). According to Digiki — who tweeted the news — the magazine is moving completely online.

  • Des Ailes

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    My dearest Audrey — and Radio OK Fred co-host — has produced a new book, and the launch happens tonight (18:00-20:00) at NOW IDeA by UTRECHT in Aoyama — this will be an advance sale of the book. Des Ailes is an adaptation of the Graine-d’aile fairy tale by French surrealist poet Paul Eluard, featuring…