Category: Art & Design
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Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & 70s
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Tokyo-based publisher Goliga Books is about to release Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & 70s — here’s a teaser.
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This Week at MoCo Loco
My new Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Kisa Kawakami’s Kisawings lamp (above), Hironori Inada’s Ceramic Pendant Lamp, and Spoon & Tamago’s round-up of 2010 calendars by D-BROS.
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Pleats Please + Tokujin Yoshioka
Tokujin Yoshioka redesigns the Pleats Please Issey Miyake store in Aoyama — see photos of the new interior at Dezeen.
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Muji Tote Bags
Continuing with the special events and items planned for the upcoming major re-launch of the Ikebukuro Seibu branch of Muji — set for September 18 — the latest is that Muji has invited 34 artists and designers to create imagery for a series of tote bags. Each bag will sell for 100 yen.
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Tokyo Art Map for Sept/Oct
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TAB‘s Tokyo Art Map for September/October is out — with spiffy new colors — and can be picked up around town at the usual spots (including Cafe Pause, of course). You can also download a PDF version here.
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Graniph Design Award Winner
About a month late on this, but pictured above, the winner of this year’s Graniph Design Award, designed by Tokyo-based Choi Hwang Ho. You can see the rest of the winners here — I have to say I prefer a lot of the runner-ups.
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Urban Paper
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Despite the fact that I’ve been house-bound and on my back for the past month, I’m very glad to say that the “Urban Paper” paper toy art show and book launch is still happening at Cafe Pause next month. Produced by Josh McKible — who you all know from NaniBird — it celebrates the recently…