GASBOOK 7

2000.1.24　 Text: Akira Natsume

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...

LONDON ZOKU

1999.12.24　 Text: Akemi Takagi

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...

BOUDDHOURS (A BUDDHA BEAR)

1999.11.24　 Text: Aki Ikemura

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...

NOTE 02

1999.9.23　 Text: Akira Natsume

"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

1999.6.23　 Text: Drafus Chow

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...

TOKYO DESIGN

1999.5.23　 Text: Akira Natsume

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...

DOBSF

1999.5.23　 Text: Akira Natsume

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) ...

JONNI NITRO

1999.4.30　 Text: Mayumi Kaneko

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...

MONSOON

1999.4.23　 Text: Akira Natsume

The next is "MONSOON VOL.02" whose the great cover by Hirohiko Araki who dealt with 'JOJO'. The contents is also great and too deep. The sense of those that we can feel at the actual scene drives into my eyes with ...

∀ (TURN A) GUNDAM

1999.4.23　 Text: Akira Natsume

Illustration: Imai Toons When I saw the mobile suit designed by Syd Mead in Young Magazine first, I had everything go black. This is the design before GUNDAM!? The director Tomino said, "Affirm all GUNDAM" in...

KAMUI FUJIWARA “COLOR MAIL”

1999.3.30　 Text: Chibashi

All colors were taken from the world!! The work consisting of the quiet new expression and sense of cartoon, adopted the plot and interface of a role playing game style and having the story to get back the colors one ...

TRACK

1999.2.26　 Text: Akira Natsume

When I went to buy some cds to a record shop in Daikan-yama, a visual caught my eyes. "What is this cool photo?" I got the impression that it likes the photo of a stag beetle in the cd jacket of Massive Attack. I took...