The film, "Twentieth Century Boys" features the fantasy that the members wrote at their secret base in their childhood. In their prophetical book, the story was that an evil organization schemed world domination with ...

TOKYO TEN

2008.8.31　 Text: Vicente Gutierrez

W+K Tokyo Lab is a Tokyo-based record label and expressive outlet for renowned creative agency Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo. Five years ago, WKTLAB was founded on the concept of “hybrid” and began experimenting with new for...

RISA FUKUI “TARACHINE”

2008.7.15　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Risa Fukui is a Kirie (Japanese paper cutout) artist who has been established her own expression style with the traditional Japanese technique and innovative approach. Her Kirie works with bold structure and precise ...

TATTOO IN JAPAN

2008.5.29　 Text: Mariko Takei

There are various ways to express the word "tattoo" in Japanese kanji. In Japanese, "irezumi" is the word for "tattoo", and you can express it in 7 or more different words written in kanji characters. In addition, the...

INSIDE/OUTSIDE

2008.5.5　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

The Street is a media that is approachable by anyone and everyone and its fair the streets are open to all, free from any bureaucratic way of thinking. Artists had started graffiti as a reaction against the art world,...

UT INSPIRED: NUMBER

2008.4.1　 Text: Yurie Hatano

UT Inspired vol.5 "Number" UT Inspired is a world wide design project, curators in cities become the center for artists from all over the world. Their mission, to make a T-shirt. The theme of the fifth series, cura...

AURORA

2008.2.12　

The spectacle drawn by 4 artists who have never seen an Aurora accidentally leaves an impression we've never felt before. A collection of drawings by four Tokyo-based artists, Izumi Shiokawa, Noritake, Asami Hattori,...

SCRATCH ON THE WALL: JAPANESE GRAFFITI

2007.10.18　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

“Scratch On The Wall: Japanese Graffiti” is the collection book of works and interviews that connects graffiti and painting. There are variety of casts: DOPPEL the live painting duo; LOOT the expert graffiti writer; Q...

REBUILD OF EVANGELION: JO (PREFACE)

2007.10.11　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Rebuild of Evangelion was just released as a film version for the second time after 10 years, and it consists of four films; Jo (Preface), Ha (Breaking Up), Kyu (Rush) and the final (the title yet to be confirmed). ...

NEWNEU.

2007.9.4　 Text: Yurie Hatano

It is not a designer bag but a bag which everyone can be a designer. A new bag collection of a new brand NEWNEU, "MONOLITH" has released from Corroche, which gives us new idea of creation from basic designes. "...

UT INSPIRED: FOOTBALL

2007.8.23　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The first edition for the new series of UT "UT Inspired", which curate the artists from all over the world. UT Inspired is a world wide design project, curators who are in metropolis become the hypocenter to artist...

MDGS T-SHIRT

2007.8.9　 Text: Yurie Hatano

In order to help eradicate and raise awareness about world poverty, the United Nations has created the messase T-shirt which will be sold from Gas As Interface. The shirts have been created with cooperation of many ar...