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DESIGNINGS
Observing the font boom amongst the young designers, one can tell that fonts are a very good mean to express the designers' identity. Then, how about 'patterns'? As there have been many different 'patterns' out there ...
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ERO POP CHIRISMAS
Takashi Murakami has been the center of the attention in the Japanese modern art scene ever since he made up his original character DOB-Kun a few years ago. He runs an art factory Hiropon Factory that is firmly ...
PEOPLE
SAJU
The singing voice such as a transparent lake. It was my first impression when I listened to saju. She went back and forth between Japan and Peking, and produced the 3rd album. The foremost ambient musicians including ...
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GOOD NEWS SHARING
A new shop GOOD NEWS SHARING has just opened in a building in Harajuku, Tokyo. They deal in a variety of 'products' such as misprinted fax prints sent from Tomato, T-shirts with memorandums by Malcolm Mclaren, nicely...
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TAKEHIKO SANADA EXHIBITION
A solo exhibition by Takehiko Sanada is taking place on the basement floor at Tokyo International Forum. Weaving the animal hair of sheep, horse and goat, he creates hand-made coats of the felt which is meticulously m...
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YOKOHAMA FILM FESTIVAL ’98
Yokohama France Film Festival aims to introduce the French films which are not on show to Japanese audiences. As it's the 6th year of the festival at Pacifico Yokohama, more people joined to enjoy the rare Fren...
THINGS
COMMONS & SENSE
Cover illustration: Ed. Tsuwaki commons & sense, a post card sized visual magazine, has been redesigned with its 5th issue, featuring fashion visuals, photos, illustrations and interviews regarding fashion an...
THINGS
DICO
Felissimo, a publisher that specialises in mail order catalogue book, launched 'dico', a email order catalogue exclusively for the internet shopping service, whilst a lot of publishers of the kind are trying to br...
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SASQUATCH.
sasquatch. is rocking with the collection of the product created by Japanese promising fashion designers and artists. It deals in a great deal of fashion gears such as clothes, accessory, shoes, even furniture,...
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TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM
There is a unique western style house along the Aoyama Kottoh Street in Tokyo. It used to be the house of Taro Okamoto, a prominent Japanese artist who passed away in '96. The house has been refurbished and open to th...
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SIMON FISHER TURNER “BLUE”
As one of the events of UK98, a retrospective of Derek Jarman took place at Cine Vivienne in Roppongi. Simon Fisher Turner came over to Japan to dj to the footages of BLUE. a great deal of mixed ambient sounds whi...
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THE 1ST JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
The first ceremony of the Media Art Festival that is organised by the Agency for Cultural Affairs was held at Opera City in Shinjuku. The festival was set up in order to support and develop game software, CGs, animati...
