For a Good Catch: Edible Monuments

The second of a three-part series looking at superstitions surrounding fishing in Yaizu, one of Japan’s most notorious fishing ports.

Classic IDEA Cover

Cover to issue #62 of Japanese graphic design magazine IDEA, published in December 1963.

Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism

Vending Machines: Coined Consumerism is a new book by Christopher D Salyers that takes a wide look at the world of automated dispensing.

Oshibori Art

For his latest column, Paul Baron finds an app that will show you exactly what to do with those wet hand towels (oshibori) you receive at Japanese restaurants.

Tokyo Illustrators Society Site Update

Tokyo-based web studio AQ has produced a new site for the Tokyo Illustrators Society.

AZITO

Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
www.azito-art.com

Adrian Tomine Covers Yasujiro Ozu

Graphic novelist Adrian Tomine has created beautiful cover artwork for a new Criterion Collection release of two films by director Yasujiro Ozu.

Bread Palette

Ryohei Yoshiyuki‘s Bread Palette is exactly what it sounds like it should be, a painters palette made from a slice of bread.

Infiniti Brand Journey: Kyoto

The original idea was to blog our activities on this two-week German-language road trip around Japan with relative frequency, but with twelve-hour shoots and a mild head cold, I have found little time to recap the day in WordPress form.

Pasona Urban Farm

Now that Pasona has moved to their new headquarters in Marunouchi, their eco project — growing rice paddies inside — has now opened to the public.

For a Good Catch: Shirts for Fishing

The first of a three-part series looking at superstitions surrounding fishing in Yaizu, one of Japan’s most notorious fishing ports.

Roppongi in VHS

Cover to a Roppongi brand video cassette from the early eighties, found by Patrick Macias.