A new magazine of ‘romantic geography’ [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 10:42 AM, September 1st, 2011 1 comment
Fragments of the Comme des Garçons magazine [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 10:50 PM, August 13th, 2011 1 comment
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]
Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 2nd, 2009 0 comments
Fans of the legendary poster designer Tadanori Yokoo should be making the most of cheap flights to Japan this October. [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 1:24 AM, October 22nd, 2009 0 comments
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]
Posted by nadia 7:09 PM, July 16th, 2009 0 comments
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]
Posted by angela 1:45 AM, July 1st, 2009 0 comments
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]
Posted by amelia groom 2:28 AM, June 18th, 2009 0 comments