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Category: City Life

  • MUJI Award 03

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    MUJI has announced details on this year’s edition of their “MUJI Award” competition. The theme for 2008 is “Found MUJI.” From the site: What can you create, when considering the life, culture and tradition of a particular region of the world, giving it a MUJI viewpoint, while at the same time respecting its origins? The…

  • Art Space Ginza

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    The Art Space Tokyo maps keep on coming, with Ginza (the gallery covered in the book is Tokyo Gallery + BTAP) now available as a downloadable PDF.

  • Mixed Media Art Project

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    At the last PauseTalk (Vol. 21), artist Robin Anthony Coe talked about the mixed media art projects he’s worked on, and that he’s currently preparing a fourth one, and would love to get some new collaborators. A few words from Robin: What is the next project? A mixed media art work combining word, image and…

  • PingMag: Cocca

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    PingMag interviews Nanami Maejima of the shop Cocca in Daikanyama, purveyor of beautiful printed fabrics.

  • Design Gallery

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    I also stopped by the Design Gallery at Matsuya Ginza. The current show, “Matsuya and Good Design: Its Activities and the Japan Design Committee,” includes a look at the gallery’s past exhibitions and items that have been featured in the adjacent Design Collection retail space. That wall you see in the photo is covered in…

  • Bishin Jumonji

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    I stopped by the Guardian Garden gallery the other day in Ginza to catch the Bishin Jumonji exhibition (ends today). The show there is actually an extension of the show on at Creation Gallery G8, and that’s the one I preferred.

  • Travel Cafe

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    I found myself in Kasumigaseki the other day, and needed a cafe to rest for a bit, and ended up in this branch of the Travel Cafe chain. Can’t say that it’s particularly special as far as cafes go, but the toast with ham and cheese I had was quite decent. The coffee? I couldn’t…

  • Cafe in Shinjuku

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    I was digging through recent photos, and found these of a really nice cafe in Shinjuku I went to last month. It was my friend Max who brought me there, and I can’t remember the name, but it’s on the fifth floor of a building, somewhere between the station and Kabukicho. Speaking of cafes, my…