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  • Creative GBG Site Is Up

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    The site for Creative GBG — the event we will be hosting at Cafe Pause this year in collaboration with Swedish Style — is now up. More info will be added over the next week or so, but for now you’ll already find details on participating creators.

  • Tote Bags by CINA

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    CINA are a Tokyo-based New Zealand design collective, and they send me word that they’ll be a part of this year’s Designboom Mart at 100% Design Tokyo, selling tote bags like the one pictured in this post — nine designs will be available.

  • Tokyo Camouflage

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    A reader sent me a link to this article, and I’m having trouble believing THE NEW YORK TIMES would publish something like this. Camouflage vending machine costumes? Come on, this is fodder for tabloids or even THE ONION.

  • Designboom Mart Preview

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    Designboom has started previewing their Designboom Mart, presented again this year as part of 100% Design Tokyo (October 31 to November 5). First up, Kouichi Okamoto and his Umbrella Pot.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Soba Kichi Billboard Live Tokyo The ‘Monocle’ Quality of Life Index Timberland Shibuya You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • PROTOTYPE

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    I recently posted about Keiji Ashizawa’s plans for an exhibition at his new studio space before he moves in. The show now has a name, “PROTOTYPE,” and below is the list of participants. Izumi Okayasu Jo Nagasaka Nosigner Yuko Nagayama Keiji Ashizawa Chris Kirby Mikiya Kobayashi Thomas Antonietti DRILL DESIGN Takafumi Nemoto (PORE) Hironao Tsuboi…

  • Kenya Hara’s Designing Design

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    Kenya Hara — quite possibly my favorite art director/graphic designer — has a new book out, DESIGNING DESIGN. Dezeen has gotten its hands on some spreads from the book, and if you’re lucky enough to be in New York next month, then you can attend a talk he’ll be giving about the book at an…

  • Tokyo Design Week: Deroll

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    Readers of this site will certainly recognize the name Dezain.net, since it’s a site I regularly get good links from. The editor of the site, Eizo Okada, is producing an exhibition this year during Tokyo Design Week called “Deroll,” to be held at Ars Gallery in Harajuku (October 31 to November 4). The idea is…

  • Backpackers in Ikebukuro

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    A few weeks ago I was sitting inside Cafe Pause, working on my laptop, when a girl walks by and notices me through the window. She walks in, comes up to me, and starts asking me if my friends traveled a lot. I was a bit confused, not really knowing where this was heading —…

  • Asiagraph 2007

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    Congrats to Yuki — one of her pieces was chosen for the Asiagraph Awards 2007, and is on display at the UDX Gallery in Akihabara until today (October 14).