Dear PingMag readers, It’s the last day of 2008, and we have a sad announcement to make. From today, PingMag will be taking an extended hiatus, and will not be updated for the foreseeable futur...
Many of you have probably already finished work for the year and had your bonenkai, and now you’re getting ready for a big cleaning day and the celebrations for the new year. And yes, this is t...
Today we enter the world of a YouTube celebrity. If you’re an avid user of the popular video sharing site, chances are you’ve encountered the videos of Magibon — those big eyes and ...
Dearest PingMag readers, Merry Christmas! Yes, it’s already Christmas time again. Have you sorted all of those Christmas presents for your loved ones? Instead of giving you a lovely present, to...
Once you arrive in Tokyo’s busy commercial district of Shimbashi, a short walk from the station brings you to a noisy highway overpass, and beside that the futuristic Nakagin Capsule Tower. The...
Manga is familiar to all Japanese, and it has also become a part of their culture they are proud of sharing. Eico Hanamura started her career as a manga artist in 1958 and is much loved as a pioneer ...
Open the door to the bathroom, and the toilet lid automatically rises. A soothing sound emanates from the toilet, and as you sit down, deodorizing functions begin to work. Push a button, and the toil...
When is a videogame magazine more than just a videogame magazine? That’s what you get with “Amusement,” a French “lifestyle” magazine that has been mixing game coverage ...
It was around six months ago when I first saw the works of HIROCOLEDGE. Just as I was looking for a small Japanese gift for a friend abroad, I noticed the “SLEEVE BAG” in interior shop CIBONE’s...
A glass kiosk stands at the side of the highway, covered in gaudy neon lights. Inside, a young woman with her body more exposed than covered sits at a glass table, making something. Photographer Masa...
Chances are you know the names of several Japanese fashion designers, heavy-weights like Rei Kawakubo or Yohji Yamamoto, and maybe even some up and coming ones like Nao Yagi and Hokuto Katsui from Mi...
The England-based KithKin collective has made it its mission to not only inspire others, but to explore the depths of conceptual design and creativity through a host of exhibitions and installations,...
It’s the first Thursday of the month, and so time to present a recent PingMag MAKE delight, to direct your cherished attention to Japan’s arts & crafts scene. This time, we look at ceramic artist...
Early this year, London-based Swedish photographer Maria Stengard-Green went on a breathless city trip to re-discover what she calls organic décollage — the many layers of half-torn and weather...
When you look back at the Japanese club scene from the 80s and 90s, the visuals that come to mind for most people might be the illustrations of Katsura Moshino. He’s an illustrator who not only...
A while ago, we gave you some insight on how a foreign designer set up his company in Japan. This time we’re letting a university professor explain from a researcher’s point of view. Aust...
You’re surely familiar if not an ardent devotee of MAKE, the techie magazine by O’Reilly publishing founded by a certain Tim O’Reilly. Just as in a TV program for kids, this fabulous mag ...
With the advent of the MP3 era, the same album cover lovers who had to cope when smaller CD artwork came along, are again shrieking with horror as artwork shrinks further (nicely enough, iTunes reali...
Dearest readers, remember the time you spent in an arcade game centre? Now it’s time to declare your undying love for arcades since they are very much alive and kicking! For the new Arcade Mania! boo...
To celebrate our beloved PingMag’s third anniversary, we started shopPingMag two months ago. Why? Because you, cherished readership, have been patiently waiting to finally lay your hands on goo...
It was a fateful encounter: On the very first day of the new term at a French art school, Michael Amzlag who was wearing a blue postman jacket from the 1950’s, blue worker pants, blue socks and...
Advanced Beauty is a wondrous new DVD compilation comprised of 18 visuals by 20 artists, or rather sound sculptures, as curator Matt Pyke of UK-based Universal Everything would say. These transient p...
This May, a massive earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in China. Reaching a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it claimed the lives of 400,000 people. Half a year later, though the destruction seem...
Ever since Tokyo Designers Week a week ago we’ve been aware that Icelanders produce the loveliest stuff, be it fancy knitwear or the most practical stamp calendars. (So please, will the financi...
We know for sure that you, beloved reader, want to know all about upcoming Japanese graphic designers! Maybe artless sounds familiar to you? Tokyo-based artless, a.k.a. Shun Kawakami is one of the ho...
Recently, Max Hodges of White Rabbit Press has been pretty busy. With a camera and a microphone he started documenting the street life of Tokyo for Tokyo Realtime, a new series of English audio-guide...
Just lasting for a couple of days and yet so much to see! Design Week Tokyo 2008 is (sadly) over now, but like every year, cheerful Team PingMag ran tirelessly around town, uber curious to see all th...
It’s the first Thursday of the month again! Meaning, for today, we introduce you to one of the recent PingMag MAKE delights to direct your cherished attention to Japan’s arts & crafts...
Imagine one day you find everyone around you suddenly going blind. One by one, the epidemic causes its victims to see only white darkness. And this is precisely what you‘ll get to see in Blindn...
Japan is facing a lot of problems when it comes to town planning: a decreasing population that will soon be overaged, shrinking towns in the countryside, and a fading government budget that is tinted...
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