Category: City Life

  • Tokyo Design Week Photos Continue

    MoCo Loco continues to post exclusive pics I took during the various Tokyo Design Week-related events. Here are some direct links: Design Tide Tokyo Designer’s Week Student Exhibition 100% Design Tokyo Part 4 Swedish Conceptual Design 100% Design Tokyo Part 3 100% Design Tokyo Part 2 Tokyo Design Week: 100% Design

  • Million Mama

    Lil continues to post great pics from the Yokohama Triennale. Pictured here is from Shiegaki Iwai’s installation, “Million Mama.”

  • Son of a Gun Party Pics

    Cafe Pause has put up a whole bunch of pics on their site covering all aspects of the Mamma Gun event, including a bunch from last Saturday’s “Son of a Gun” party. Also, let me invite you all to another “sort of” party we’ll be having at Cafe Pause this coming Saturday night. It’s not…

  • The Latest Wonderwall Designs

    Masamichi Katayama of Wonderwall recently updated his site with new pics for various projects. Here are some quick links: United Arrows Nagoya D.Office The Tokyo Tower Sea Sky Guest Rooms and Lounge LOOPWHEELER Darjeeling Days Marunouchi BAPEXCLUSIVE Harrods Brompton BAPE CAFE!? Also, the shop section of the site has a new item in the “Grand…

  • 3 Trees Make a Forest

    A heads-up to any readers in the LA area on a show that I wouldn’t mind seeing. “3 Trees Make a Forest” brings the illustrative works of Tokyo-based Tadahiro Uesugi, Enrico Casarosa, and Ronnie Del Carmen (these last two also happen to work at Pixar). The show will take place at Nucleus Gallery, starting November…

  • Tokyo Design Week Pictures

    You may be wondering why I haven’t posted any pictures from the various design events of this past week. Well, I took tons (300-400), and gave the exclusive to MoCo Loco, so that’s where you’ll be able to see them. They’re being posted over a few of days — here are links to part 1…

  • Olafur Eliasson

    From Tropolism: As you may know, I do work from time to time with Olafur Eliasson. I get all of the invitations to his openings, wherever they may be. They are so numerous, it is impossible to keep up. However, this one is of note: his first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum. Olafur…

  • The PechaKucha Trilogy at PingMag

    PingMag covers this past week’s Tokyo Design Week-related “PechaKucha” events at SuperDeluxe. Parts 1 and 2 here, part 3 here.