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Category: City Life

  • Ikea 4.5 Museum

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    Well, finally, we’re just a short two weeks away (April 24) from the opening of the Ikea Funabashi store, which marks Ikea’s return to the Japanese market. You can already see all items and prices online, but I was looking for a way to order a catalogue — Ikea still sends out catalogues, right? —…

  • Uniqlo T-Shirts 06

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    Looks like Uniqlo is going all out this year with their t-shirt collection, including a series curated by Colette, one by Staple Design, and one by Lodown. As always, all tees go for 1500 yen.

  • Dynamicity

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    Oh wow — I dig that QR barcode pattern on this yukata. It’s by Atelier Bow-Wow, as part of their contribution for a project called “Dynamicity, Tactics for a Changing Metropolis.” More here from We Make Money not Art, as well as this Flickr photoset. Link via Dezain.net.

  • Bondi Books Moving

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    Bondi Books, an English bookstore in Kichijoji, is about to move to a new bigger location not far from where they are now, and it sounds like they’ll be expanding their selection quite a bit. Time for a bigger space. Its official. We are moving into a new space just around the corner from our…

  • New York & Paris in Tokyo

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    Ever since organizing the Canadian Style event, I’m slowly becoming aware of more and more Canadian artists with activities in Japan, and here’s the latest, an exhibition by Toronto-based artist John Coburn that starts tomorrow. Toronto artist John Coburn is heading to Tokyo for his first solo exhibition, to be held at Printemps- Ginza, April…

  • International Portable Film Festival

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    Continuing with the video theme, here’s the International Portable Film Festival, which looks like a fairly ambitious project. Already showing is their “Six Cities” program. The Six Cities project features the work of filmmakers from around the world including Tokyo, New York, Montreal, London, Melbourne and Vancouver. Each filmmaker was asked to create a film…

  • Mirrorball Nippon 2

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    Time to get ready for another music video festival in town, this time courtesy of Mirrorball Nippon, and taking place at everyone’s favorite creative venue, SuperDeluxe. The music video showcase Mirrorball, screened annually at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. To mark the occasion, the acclaimed event will be presented…

  • Color Waves

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    Hiroaki Koshiba is presenting a new exhibition, “Color Waves,” at The Pink Cow this month (until April 30), and it will culminate in a closing party and live painting session on the last day, from 18:00 to 22:00 (the live painting will happen from 19:00 to 20:00).