A photo by Sai Hashizume spotted on Alin Huma’s Fin de Cycle Tokyo blog.
The full post focuses on high heels, and also includes an illustration by Setsuko Hori.
Fin de Cycle Tokyo is a new project by Huma that combines cycling, books, events, coffee, and much, much more.
2010/04/15 [Fin de Cycle Tokyo]
Photos of the interior of the Omotesando branch of the Pass the Baton shop, designed by Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall).
Kazuo Shinohara receives the Golden Lion in Memoriam Award at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Shintaro Fujiwara and Yoshio Muro (FujiwaraMuro Architects) have designed the House of Slope, with an interior that features plenty of angled floors.
Shigeru Ban’s Scale 1/30 brings architecture to the dinner table.
Graphic designer Bunpei Yorijuji updates his website with plenty of new works. (via Spoon & Tamago)
A video look at Tokujin Yoshioka‘s current “Snow” installation at the Mori Art Museum.
Time to get HARD again, with the announcement by Tokyo Fun Party that the next party in the series (Vol. 4) is coming in October.
Need something tougher and more natural to protect your iPad? How about this wooden case/stand by Sasaki Kogei.
French comic creator Lewis Trondheim has been drawing up observations on Japan in his online comic diary of late.
Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
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Another “tight fit” residence (or if you prefer, an example of “pet architecture”), this time in the form of Atelier Tekuto‘s OH House.
A new edition of the “Magazine Library” moving exhibition is set to take place September 11-30 at Maison Aoyama, as part of this month’s “Fashion’s Night Out” event.
Samuel Cockedey has created a new time-lapse video filmed in Tokyo, “Inter // States,” this time collaborating with music artist Paul Frankland (Woob).
Artist/designer Lucie Kim is on the lookout in Tokyo for participants to her “Wake Up/Make Up” project, photographing them as they wake up, and then after they’ve applied makeup.
Tokyo-based design firm AQ recently moved into a new space in Nishi-Azabu, and it has now started chronicling some of the DIY projects that have helped make it more functional.
As part of the launch festivities surrounding the new Kickstarter-funded edition of Art Space Tokyo, a special evening was organized at the TOD’s flagship store in Tokyo.
Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz collaborate together on “Rec & Play,” an interactive project that takes the form of pens that draw/record and play sounds.
