Designboom is teaming up with this year’s edition of Tokyo Designers Week for “Endangered Species,” an international graphic design competition.
As was brought up in Craig Mod‘s reports (parts one and two) from this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW), Japan doesn’t have much of a presence at the annual tech gathering, something Tokyo-based tech/mobile journalist Paul Papadimitriou wants to help change.
But Does It Float posts a collection of classic infographics by Kazuo Abe and Fumihiko Nishioka.
Studio Voice is back, sort of. The celebrated culture magazine which ceased publication in 2009 is now reincarnated as an iPhone app, with an iPad version coming as well.
Matt Alt looks back at eighties transformable toys GoBots and offers up some thoughts on why they never quite competed with Transformers in North America, despite their success in Japan.
Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
www.azito-art.com
Patrick Macias‘ TokyoScope cult film talk series is back with Vol. 6, this time for “Bad Girls and Wild Women! Stray Cats, Lady Yakuza & Delinquent Bosses.”
A great piece of “Pet Architecture” is in full evidence with Avehideshi Architects and Associates‘ tobacco shop and residence in Osaka
Last year saw the release of Northern, a book by photographer Daido Moriyama featuring black and white shots taken in Hokkaido.
Editor’s Note: This month’s Graniph + SNOW Magazine contest is now over, and winners will be contacted within the week. We’d like to thank everyone who entered and contributed names of artists. For those who didn’t have a chance to enter, please note that the next contest will kick off in just over a week.
“You Are Here: Berlin Tokyo” is a brand new cultural festival set to bring Berlin’s creative culture to Tokyo in the fall of next year.