AVALON
What is needed today is an expression with 'depth'. The urban scene of Poland where the setting of 'Avalon' is laid in looks more futuristically rather than hackneyed scenes of 'Tokyo'. The simple and austere appearan...
What is needed today is an expression with 'depth'. The urban scene of Poland where the setting of 'Avalon' is laid in looks more futuristically rather than hackneyed scenes of 'Tokyo'. The simple and austere appearan...
Lomo is a cheap old-fashioned Russian camera, designed in the 70's and produced in St.Petersburg, that has come back into vogue in the 90's. As a look extension, this little camera shoots pictures without skill requir...
Benzin: Young Swiss Graphic Design showcases the work of young Swiss designers. The bright pink-colored cover catches your eyes first. As you turn the pages, numbers of works and interviews of spirited young graphic d...
The Japanese film 'Blister!' won the Fantaland Grand Prize and got the best reputation from audiences in this year's Yubari International Film Festival. It gives a good picture of the everyday life of so-called Geeks ...
In Japan, most people are interested in mobile phone and it's been featured in not only business magazines, but also in general and fashion magazines. i-Mode was started by NTT Docomo last spring. This is, in brief, ...
The CodexSeries is an ongoing CD ROM project that consists of projects by different talents in the digital medium. The Series explores narrative, design and interactive work. Somewhere between a compilation CD and a d...
What I'm now interested in is free paintings and illustrations such as 'Scrawl: Dirty Graphics & Strange Characters' published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, and silent visual expressions featured in the IDEA magazin...
The album “Ninth Elegy” of Tsuki No Wa leaded by a vocalist Fuminosuke has just arrived. This album was produced by Amephone who is included in Gasbook 5 and I can feel the sound of urban night. It's absolutel...
This year's Yubari International Film Festival screened a number of animations. 'Toy Story 2' (invitation) was one of the special-feature films, and another special one must have been 'Jin-Roh, The Wolf Brigade' (mad...
Gasbook 7 consists of a Video (60 min.), CD-ROM, T-shirt, and catalogue, and features very important creators in visual and graphic design from all over the world including Me Company (well-known for producing the...
I am astounded by the ability of Japanese magazines to collect information about London. They have already covered all the where-to-go in new cutting edge areas and now they are looking for the next hot spot which eve...
A design group led by Philippe Di Meo called RESO Design reached the tenth anniversary of its founding. As a celebration project of this anniversary, ten pieces of original objet d'art such as Bouddhours (a Budd...
"A pen and paper. They're the most familiar tools to output one's impulse of expression. And paper which we can bring with us everywhere is note. "NOTE" is a showcase of works and new talents. Whether they're well-...
Chalk is editor Brandon Ho, art director Calvin Ho, 'head of the house' Wendy Lee, and stylist Claudy Ho. All of whom are multi- talented, Brandon writes music for local artists and has his own band, Calvin is a tale...
The text frightened me today is the special feature 'TOKYO DESIGN' in June issue of Studio Voice. It features lots of people who create and send off old, middle and new visuals in today's Tokyo. I'm happy to read th...
I cannot write text at all and I'm frightened by text. Because I think text is an ultimate form of multimedia, and text is what all things in the universe are coded and visualized. Recently kanji (Chinese character) ...
The comic by Tubatomic Studio, "Jonni Nitro". A secret agent Jonni is involved in various cases one after another. It's just like a spy movie making full use of motion trace and high contrast photographic images in...