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Category: Stores
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The End of Intelligent Idiot
Chin Music Press‘ Craig reports: It’s with a heavy heart I have to report that one of my favorite English language bookshops here in Tokyo is closing its doors this week. Intelligent Idiot sits next to Yoga Jaya in the Las Chicas courtyard in back-alley Omotesando. It’s small and it’s selection limited. But thanks to…
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Dezeen Takes a Look at Bapexclusive
Dezeen profiles Bape’s Bapexclusive store, taken from Dezeen editor Marcus Fairs’ own TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DESIGN.
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Stylewise for January 2007
Martin Webb’s latest “Stylewise” column for THE JAPAN TIMES takes a look at, among other things, the BAPE KIDS shop.
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Graniph Design Award.1
Add one more t-shirt design competition to an already crowded mix, this one the inaugural “Graniph Design Award.1,” with a top prize of 1 million yen (US$9000), and then 10 second place prizes of 100 000 yen (US$900) — all of these also get commercialized — and then an unlimited amount of 10 000 yen…
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Bali Barret Jingumae
I’m liking the look of this branch of Bali Barret in Jingumae. It was designed by Franklin Azzi Architecture. Found on Designboom. Update: More pics of the store at JoshSpear.com.
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Uniqlo Mixplay
Uniqlo lets you mix your own CM, on their flash-based MIXPLAY site. Fun — and great looking flash-based video!
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This Week at Gridskipper
United Cinemas Toyosu Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hysteric Glamour but Were Afraid to Ask You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).
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iTunes Japan Tracks Worldwide
Anime News Network is reporting that even though you can’t register with a non-Japanese credit card on the iTunes Music Store Japan, you can buy tracks no matter where you are with an iTunes Japan Music card, which can be purchased on Amazon Japan and Jbox.
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BAPE KIDS
Want to see more from the recently opened BAPE KIDS shop in Harajuku? The Wonderwall site has updated with a few new galleries, including this one for the store.
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LOGOS Gallery Winter Sale
The big foreign books winter sale at LOGOS Gallery starts this Friday (December 29), and will run until January 15. This is always a great opportunity to get some nice art and design-related books at heavily discounted prices. I stopped by the LOGOS store today while in Shibuya, and ended up picking up a copy…