Continuing until the end of this week at the Centre For Cosmic Wonder Tokyo: original prints from the Cosmic Wonder Free Press Sunday Edition [read more]

Fans of the legendary poster designer Tadanori Yokoo should be making the most of cheap flights to Japan this October. [read more]

Everybody knows Japanese architects have got it going on. While we marvel at their edifaces all the time, it is less comon to be able to peek behind the ‘walls’ into their prepatory processes. In recent flea market rummaging I scored Drawings by Contemporary Japanese Architects [read more]

Risa Nakazawa works as an artist coordinator and marketing manager for GAS Japan. As a company, GAS does so many things that we feel slightly dizzy writing them down. Through the GASBOOKS publishing arm, CALM & PUNK GALLERY and 20,000,000 fragments (20MF) fashion label, GAS provides a platform for artists all over the world to showcase their work to a wider audience. Recently, GAS also started workshops that connect kids with artists to hopefully “make world little bit happier with the creative mind-set”. Risa took time out to chat briefly with us about the latest GAS projects [read more]

In a short space of time Kazuya Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have achieved international acclaim with projects around the world such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Louvre Annex, Lens, France; the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan [read more]

Takashi Homma wields his camera with the exactitude of a surgeon. Tokyo’s dusky suburbs, rigid parking lots, discarded McDonald’s cups, miniscule rooftop gardens and shadowy shopping window reflections all yield to his crisp gaze. His Tokyo Children and Tokyo Teens – dubbed ‘homo transcendants’ in an essay by po-mo maverick Douglas Coupland – are placed on par with the city itself; its living embodiment, inscrutable, chilly, endlessly intriguing. Interestingly, the doe-eyed child offered up as ‘My Daughter’ in a series is not in fact Homma’s, but a friend’s – is fiction or form here stronger? [read more]

Meet Takeshi Hamada’s pet tiger. The type designer and art director founded the e-magazine as a project back in his student days. Since 2000 it has existed as a platform for visual experimentation with the only restriction being the dimensions of the virtual ‘pages’. Luckily for us, all back issues are archived on tiger.org, making for a mouth-watering buffet of utterly original graphic design, illustration, page layout and photography [read more]