NANZUKA UNDERGROUND

2008.6.30　 Text: Naoko Kawaguchi

In October 2005, having associated with a cooperated office Mixrooffice, operated by a famous video director, VJ Naohiro Ukawa and upcoming creative group iseneehihinee, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND was opened as a new contemp...

CAI 02

2008.6.17　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Odori West 5 is the busiest center area of Sapporo. On the second basement of the most accessible building directly-connected to the Odori subway station exit 1, a new place of creative dispatch has appeared. It is "...

SPIN

2008.6.10　 Text: Wee Ling Soh

Spin Shanghai is the kind of store a customer has to especially make a trip to. Hidden in the compound of nondescript industrial buildings, one has to walk past factory gates and know exactly which building to ...

COCOMAYA

2008.6.5　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Chocolates, chocolates, and chocolates! As soon as opening the green door with “COCOMAYA” emblazoned in gold, you may feel like you are floating, otherwise, feel free to scream with joy. Here they are, chocola...

BAUHAUS MUSEUM

2008.5.26　 Text: Filip De Haes

The Bauhaus Museum was constructed in 1976-1979, partly based on plans of Walter Gropius. Apart from just being a museum it hosts a library and many activities like workshops, lectures and discussions are held in the ...

NEW MUSEUM

2008.5.19　 Text: Shane Johnston

A few years ago, the Bowery existed as a haphazard ménage of old New York City fire escapes, refurbished refrigerators and the poor souls that found themselves at the Bowery mission. It was hardly a posh neighborhood,...

WITTE DE WITH

2008.5.16　 Text: Kana Sunayama

The first thing art fans can think of when hearing the name of town Rotterdam will be Boymans van Beuningen Museum where contains Bruegel's 'Tower of Babel' as its collection. Contemporary art fans might have their a...

SHIBUYA PUBLISHING & BOOKSELLERS

2008.5.14　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

How many times have you been to book stores in this month? How many books have you read in the month? You might be missing something if you haven't been there lately. Shibuya Publishing & Booksellers is a uniq...

ART TOWER MITO

2008.5.12　 Text: Yutaka Takamura

After a 20-minute walk along a gradual slope from Mito station, a spiral tower remotely shows itself between buildings in the city. As I walk toward the tower, I encounter a green scene of a grassy plaza with 3 zelkov...

PARADISE ROW

2008.4.7　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Brick Lane is such old news in terms of the art scene in East London. Even the Sunday street market has encroached onto Cheshire Street so why not the art galleries as well? Easter shopping on Brick Lane then, so off ...

MUJI SOHO

2008.3.29　 Text: Tetsuro Mise

Homegrown brand MUJI is now synonymous with a minimalistic design approach that is recognized as distinctly Japanese. MUJI features over 7,000 environmentally-friendly products which are rooted in practical innovation...

HYPER ISLAND

2008.3.26　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

Hyper Island has been the hype of Europe's and the world's web design industry. No wonder, many of the students who graduated from Hyper Island have opportunities to work in many of the leading web design companies a...