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  • Mamma Gun: The Site

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    Jesper has whipped up a site to help promote our “Mamma Gun sager: Ta en PAUS” event at Cafe Pause. It just went live, and so doesn’t have much yet, but it will get updated over the coming weeks as we have more info to share.

  • Snapazoo for Swedish Style

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    As part of the Swedish Style events we’ve been organizing, we’ve managed to get the Laughtoys‘ inaugural product, Snapazoo, be names as official mascot. The image you see above (created by NCM, and which you’ll also recognize as part of my new site banner) was used in Swedish Style’s press presentation from last week, and…

  • Jean Prouve

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    D-Akihabara Temporary is really batting them out of the park these days! Working as an architect, designer and engineer, Jean Prouve is one of the most versatile and innovative creator of the 20th century. This exhibition comes traveling from The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, where it was first held last year, showing…

  • Sin City Bar

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    I loved the movie-adaptation of SIN CITY (and I’m a huge fan of the comics), and was really surprised to hear about this limited-time SIN CITY themed bar in Aoyama, especially with Maki Nomiya (whose new album, PARTY PEOPLE, is out tomorrow) being involved. From METROPOLIS: After catching the new Bruce Willis flick, keep the…

  • iPods at 7-11

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    Can they get any more ubiquitous? If you’re in Japan later this month you may be able to duck into a 7-11 convenience store and order an iPod. Macworld UK reports a UPI story that Apple has cut a deal with Japan’s largest convenience store group to sell five iPod models, including the iPod nano,…

  • Rendering of the Xbox Lounge

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    Kotaku has just posted this rendering of what the Xbox Lounge in Aoyama (to open November 2) will look like. I do like the openness of it. Update (16/09/04): The image is no longer available.

  • Mamma Gun Flyers

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    I want to start previewing more of the stuff that we are preparing for our Swedish Style event at Cafe Pause (“Mamma Gun sager: Ta en PAUS“), and here’s a look at some sketches NCM has designed for the event flyers/postcards. The one on the right features a young Mamma Gun (Jesper’s actual mother —…

  • Koizumi Makoto’s KuRaSiGoTo

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    I like the concept behind the exhibition space for this Koizumi Makoto show, “KuRaSiGoTo.” Koizumi Makoto has been designing not “only furniture”, and not “only products”, but “lifestyle” per se. He is a rather quiet person who always takes a sober approach to creating things, which might be a reason why visitors to this exhibition…