BUSINESS ARCHITECTS
This month's cover design was produced by Yugo Nakamura who belongs to 'bA (Business Architects)' that has quickly grown into a leading web development agency in Japan since its establishment. You may already know his...
This month's cover design was produced by Yugo Nakamura who belongs to 'bA (Business Architects)' that has quickly grown into a leading web development agency in Japan since its establishment. You may already know his...
The 'Buro 30: Electronicaccident Experimental Express 2000' event was held for three days from November 3rd to 5th at CAY (basement of Spiral Hall) in Aoyama. Buro is the event which has showcased 'new forms of electr...
This month's cover design was produced by Enlightenment, led by Hiro Sugiyama, an illustrator who also goes on tour with Towa Tei as a member of Graphickers. With the free magazine called 'Track' Hiro has established...
Shinichiro Arakawa has been developing his collections with innovative ideas and approaches (such as collaborations with Honda and Jenny) since he went to France alone in 1989. He made his first appearance in the '93 ...
As the current stream in furniture and interior design, the activity of powerful designers in Europe stands out and it's getting into the news for a few years in Japan. Hitoshi Saeki who runs a housewares product gall...
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The Furi Furi Company just started in January, 1998. They have been featured in various media for only a year and a half, and have been recently watched. Their works mix cute characters and cool graphics and are gaini...
Abstract vocal tunes started to launch for the world from Tokyo. The break beats, techno and abstract label "ns-com" established by Dj Miku (a.k.a. MIK) in 1997. The supervisor Miku, Dub Squad, Ebizoo, Takayuki Shiroi...
Steve Eto plays an active part as the only Japanese-American metal rock percussionist living in Japan and also active as a member of the mixture-music band 'DEMI SEMI QUAVER'. He also shows his unusual talents as a fa...
Nowadays it gets warmer and springlike. Today is the 3rd of March, the Girl's Festival and also the special day for 'CHAPPIE', the charactor playing dress-up created by GROOVISIONS, and the precious day for CHAP...
In 1992, he succeeded in the event 'Tokyo Gamer's Night Groove' that made games had an impression as Otaku and club culture unite. Then he established the indies techno label 'Frogman Records' with several partners, a...
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 ...
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 ...
This month we have a cover graphic which was contributed by a Japanese design collective TRESPASSER. Combining fashion and graphic design, they are actively creating various pieces of work and working hard on the web....
As a creators' collective, Pied Piper (Paranoia Factory) shows their versatility in architecture, art, interior design, visuals and clothing design. Armed with a strong will, they are now pearmeating into the times......
There is an architectural label "Intentionallies"(ITL) which was set up to practice creation through architecture in '95. While drawing the attention of mass media, it has committed themselves to designing a wide rang...
Shuya Okino has been leading Japanese Jazz club scene with his various works such as producing Mondo Grosso and Monday Michiru, playing as a DJ and operating a club "ROOM" at Shibuya, Tokyo. Lately, he released an al...