Organizers for this year’s edition of Tokyo Designers Week are set to hold a press briefing this Thursday (July 29) to talk more about what to expect from TDW this year — as it celebrates its 25th anniversary — and also to reveal the show’s new look, which this year is courtesy of Gwenaël Nicolas (Curiosity).
This year’s event will be held from October 29 to November 3, again at Meiji Jingu Gaien, and the theme is “Environment.”
Pictured, a peek at this year’s t-shirt design.
TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA redesigns the packaging for Japanese cosmetic brand Suqqu.
NRM ARCHITECTS OFFICE design a new residence in Osaka, KH:3 House, that keeps things private even though it is located on a street corner.
JUNYA ISHIGAMI + ASSOCIATES have been awarded the Golden Lion for best project at the 12th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
FAMED ANIMATION DIRECTOR Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Paprika) has died from cancer at the age of 46.
ARCHITECT HIROYUKI MIYABE (Speac Inc.) renovates his house and covers it in ivy.
SNOW Magazine teams up with Another Africa for this piece by site founder Missla Libsekal on the SAWA sneaker brand.
As we reported earlier, next year’s “You Are Here: Berlin – Tokyo” festival is having a preview event tonight (September 3) at Vacant in Harajuku.
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SNOW Magazine contributor Mari Kojima has teamed up with fellow photographer Patrick Tsai to start indie publishing house Bathysphere Books.
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On August 22, music store Shibuya HMV shut down operations. Surely it’s never good to see a large-scale culture shop smack middle in Tokyo’s central youth shopping district have to close its doors, but the obituaries have focused more upon HMV’s historical role than the possible contemporary impact of its disappearance. Mainichi called it the “holy ground” for the ’90s epoch-making music genre Shibuya-kei. As we will see, this is only partly true.
The latest installation to fill up the space at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyama is “Rolls” by Chikara Ohno (Sinato).
Tokushi Tokai Paper doesn’t only have a new name — it was previously known as Tokushu Tokai Holdings — it also has a colorful new headquarters interior courtesy of Hiromura Design Office.
Designboom is teaming up with this year’s edition of Tokyo Designers Week for “Endangered Species,” an international graphic design competition.
Néojaponisme interviews Sally Suzuki, media director and co-founder of the collaborative online journal Beholdmyswarthyface.com.
In a rare and intimate one-night event, apparel/book/font designer, publisher, and manufacturer of design objects, Andy Cruz of House Industries will speak about his work and House’s most recent collaboration with the estate of Charles and Ray Eames.
