Claire Tanaka continues her series of interviews with creative people living in and around her home prefecture of Tokushima.
Kyoto-based essayist and designer Bianca Beuttel has recently started taking traditional Japanese tea ceremony classes, and as a result has started a series on her blog in which she brings up observations that often relate to the world of design.
If you pick up the latest issue of Wallpaper (August 2010), you’ll find a paper cut-out — it forms a house — designed by architect Ryuji Nakamura.
The 21_21 Design Sight museum — part of the Tokyo Midtown complex in Roppongi — has just released a new free iPhone app.
Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
www.azito-art.com
SNOW Magazine is very happy to announce that it is teaming up with Tokyo-based design t-shirt label Graniph to not only give away a few t-shirts, but to also enlist your help in future design collaborations.
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).
Can’t catch Tokujin Yoshioka‘s installation at the Museum Beyond Museum in Seoul? Relief comes in the form of this video.
Architect and product designer Masayuki Kurokawa has launched “design-proposal,” a website that aims to bring manufacturers and designers together in developing new creative ideas.
Spoon & Tamago’s Johnny Strategy is in town for a few weeks, and while here he attended Iida‘s launch party for its planned 2010 releases.
The latest in a series of visual excerpts from the out-of-print book 和英文字レタリング (Japanese and English Lettering) by Tsunetoshi Hurusawa (古沢恒敏), a collection of assorted lettering styles culled from history.