THE 11TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
In recent years many media art festivals appear all over the world. Here in Japan is not exception. Among those festivals best known is Japan Media Arts Festival run by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. This y...
In recent years many media art festivals appear all over the world. Here in Japan is not exception. Among those festivals best known is Japan Media Arts Festival run by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. This y...
Kimihiko Okada has won many prizes, especially in design competitions. His long-awaited residence will be completed this year. This exhibit could be a pre-cursor for that. You can see a sense of floating or transparen...
A hotel room turns into a permanent gallery space! The Chelsea hotel in New York is known for the art fairs it hosts, and Agnes Hotel Art Fair 2008 is leading the scene in Tokyo. At Agnes Hotel and Apartments T...
The winning works of still images, animations, interactive art installations and games were selected for the 13th Student Computer Graphics Contest, showcasing high level of creative CG works from in and out of Japan....
From 1st to 30th of November 2007, "DOTMOV FESTIVAL" was held in 4 cities in Japan. In Tokyo, a book cafe space in Nakameguro Combine had presented screening during the festival month. Also as a collaborated event, ...
APMT (apartment) is an art & design conference hosted by creative portal website CBCNET. Every time they feature people who are active in the front lines of their fields, and they give us pleasant unique sessions...
There was the HIGH5, a design conference organised by Hitspaper, a design web magazine, at the AXIS gallery in Tokyo on the 1st of December. This lecture hold to cheer Japanese design up like doing HIGH5.Thre...
The venue was absolutely huge. If you go there with your friends and get separated form them, that's it. It's quite unlikely to see them ever again. I got lost for a few times actually.. The first booth I looked in...
Now that Tokyo Designer's Week has successfully wrapped up, with the legions of designers catching flights out of Narita its time for a little rest and to sum up for those that couldn't make it. DesignTide is in its ...
Adventure in the darkness created by Imagination and Science. "Underground" - a photo book by Hideaki Uchiyama has been getting attention as a remarkable way to tell the attraction of underground. Have we ever ...
This exhibition, the 5th in the series, started in 2003 by ufp members who had lived in the 5 continents; America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Africa. As its name indicates, this is a global photo exhibition named after...
Quiet, mysterious and comical. A creative organization showing the rediculous but high-developed performance, Blue Man Group is finally coming to Japan. Blue Man Group is a creative organization founded by Phi...
In the end of summer, I visited Metamorphose 2007 on Aug 25th and 26th. A great number of people attended more than ever as they celebrated 8th anniversary this year. I was wondering if this big event obtained its r...
"LIFE: Fluid, Invisible, Inaudible..." is an exhibition at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) at Shinjuku, Tokyo, from 15th September to 4th November. It is newly corroborated Ryuichi Sakamoto with Shiro Takatani fr...
It's that time of the year again! T-shirt Design Olympics, brought to you by Uniqlo! Uniqlo's annual T-shirt design competition, known as "Creative Award" since 2004, is now re-named as "UT Grand Prix" from thi...
Design Festa recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festival is called ‘the biggest international art event’, so about 6000 people from 32 countries and all over Japan came to exhibit, sell and present their or...
And A is a select shop that presents fashion, goods, music and art. They have original items and import items mainly from Europe. They have produced many collaborative items with various designers and artists. Also, t...