A clean home is a happy home, or so the saying goes. And perhaps for as long as that quote has existed, so has Japan used charcoal as a natural cleaner to absorb impurities in air and water. And no, ...
This weekend my wife Tomomi’s clothing line will unveil an exciting new collaboration with graphic designer Nobuko Hori. Their new line of kids clothing, spoon x chogre, will debut at the Carro...
What a gorgeously minimalistic USB drive (and case). In this tiny empty bottle, you can store many, many messages – up to 2 GB of messages. It’s, quite literally, a digital reincarnation ...
Last night in Tokyo, Softbank announced that their latest cell phone, the PANTONE 5 series, would go on sale later in July. Masayoshi Son, the president of Japan’s 3rd largest mobile phone operator, ...
Sitting down for dinner in Japan requires a certain amount of dedication, especially if you’re not familiar with the endless rules surrounding dining etiquette. Many of those guidelines concern thems...
I’m loving the pieces in SIWA’s new 2012 collection, which includes wine bottle carriers, envelopes for small accessories and some lovely tote bags. SIWA (previously) is a collaborative project betwe...
images courtesy midtown design award | click to enlarge In the wake of Japan’s nuclear disaster and subsequent shutdown of all nuclear reactors, designers have been scrambling to generate ideas and p...
What’s the best way to leave a coworker a note if they’re away from their desk? Why, simply use these adorable keyboard memo pads, of course. source: press release
stillshots from the video, courtesy shinkenchiku | click to enlarge If there’s 1 thing you should know about “House in Chiharada” it’s this: the home’s Japanese name is much more interesting. Transla...
Sea of Memory 012 (2010) | click images to enlarge. All photos by Shin Ono Over the weekend at LIC Open Studios I stumbled upon the intriguing work of Noriko Kuresumi, a Japanese artist making anemon...
Link from Zelda | click images to enlarge Mega Man/Rockman and his trusty sidekick, Rush. The artist has admitted that Megaman is indeed Capcom, not Nintendo, but couldn’t resist because he has...
image courtesy tokyo source It was announced last week that Koki Tanaka, the 37-year old video artist (not the 27-year old member of boy band KAT-TUN) would represent Japan next year in the 2013 Veni...
images courtesy makoto azuma | click to enlarge Remember botanical artist Makoto Azuma’s bottle flower series? Well he’s creating a new series, “Bottle Flower Quadrilateral,” this time in...
I’m writing this post from my phone as i just received this message and am away from my computer all day. Takeshi-san is a good friend of mine. I’ll update this post as I get more informa...
How adorable is this little dude? ChibiDashi is a miniature wooden jewelry drawer with a tiny space for small jewelry and a plenty of space for personality. I love how you pull him out from his behin...
It’s a well-established fact that tattoos, despite recent acceptance by a younger generation, still largely remain taboo in Japan. Japanese celebrities like Namie Amuro and Mika Nakashima, who freque...
Back in April we previewed Yasuaki Onishi’s upcoming installation at Rice Gallery in which the Japanese artist uses the simplest of materials – translucent plastic sheeting, strings of black glue, fi...
a miniature house-shaped flower vase for your small saplings “hanabunko” – because every bookshelf needs vegetation “sasso” begins as a candle but is intended to be used...
As a child, did you ever wrap springs or wire clamps around your finger, pretending they were jewelry? If so, listen up! Kouichi Okamato of Kyouei Design just announced his latest product – wi...
images courtesy gallery deux poissons | click to enlarge a poetic visualization of the time shared between two people The Tokyo-based gallery deux poissons, 1 of only 3 galleries in all of Japan who ...
photos by guen-k 2012 is shaping up to be a year of great change for Tokyo, at least in terms of landscape. Within the last month we saw the opening of 2 new mega-retail complexes: Tokyu Plaza Omotes...
top and bottom images courtesy tokyo-hotaru.com The inaugural Tokyo Hotaru festival was held last weekend. And kicking off the festivities were an impressive display of 100,000 LED lights – made to r...
Gilstad uses a single line to divide and connect the different elements of the meal – the ingredients, where they are stored in the kitchen, and in what order and how they are prepared all images cou...
images are all courtesy japan-architects, who visited the open house in early May. Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka is master of the unconventional. Whether he’s designing igloo-looking noodle shops...
I’m going a bit crazy over this Landskip Bag designed by fu-na. What a great idea! My kids would love this. The LandskipBag takes its name from “landscape” and “skip” – describing a perso...
Kohei Oda is a botanist. But not just any botanist. He runs a shop in Hiroshima called Qusamura (pronounced, kusamura), where he sells one-of-a-kind, slightly off-beat cacti with “nice faces.” But no...
This is what happens when you motion-capture a pop girl group and release it on the internet as a free download. Perfume, if you don’t know them, are an all-girl trio that have gained popularity, in ...
click images to enlarge It’s not too often I get to write about product design AND packaging design in the same post. In this case, I think the packaging design beats the actual product. Japanese fur...
“fluctuation of life” 2010 (photos by kozaburo sakamoto) |click to enlarge Japanese artist Mika Aoki creates exquisite glass sculptures inspired by her fascination with the visible and in...
photo by Katsuhisa Kida /FOTOTECA | click to enlarge I love this new home built in Kamakura, Japan and designed by Tezuka Architects. “House to Catch the Mountain” was completed in February 2012 and ...
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