From Cornelius x Koichiro Tsujikawa's "DROP - Do It Again" and Towa Tei's Naohiro Ukawa produced "Audio Sex", to Ryoichi Kurokawa, Takagi Masakatsu, Omodaka, and Meikyo Shisui, experimental and stimulating works of Ja...

ART IT

2003.11.2　 Text: Yuki Ishida

Now, there's one more topic. Recently, there is "art vogue" in the publishing world featuring art topics in general magazines. In this situation, one deep art magazine has started. It is "ART iT". ("iT" is an ab...

KAZUHIRO NAKAMURA “MIZU” (WATER)

2003.8.1　 Text: Satoshi Ota

Photography book "Mizu" (Water) exhibition was held at the beginning of July at Depot in Nakameguro, Tokyo. It ran about two weeks for the release of the photography book of Kazuhiro Nakamura "Mizu (Water)". The ven...

NIKE PRESTO 04

2003.5.21　 Text: Sachiko Kurashina

Innovative and surprising. "Nike Presto/Instant Go" campaign gives us a fresh impression every time. In the latest campaign, a creator "Skwerm" at a globally famous street art group Barnstormers, an artist Sasu base...

PETIT THEATER

2003.5.21　 Text: Sachiko Kurashina

Do you want to put a different essence in your ordinary days? If so, here is the best one to make a small change. They are not big hit famous films but they will fill your private time with a lot of pastel colours. ...

A BICYCLE IN “E.T.”

2002.9.29　 Text: Satoshi Ota

I think everybody dreamed of having a flying bicycle when the film "E.T." was on screen. Of course, I was one of these dreamers and I clearly remember the scene that the boys were flying in the sky with BMX even...

A TRIBUTE TO TERRY JOHNSON: PILLOW TALKS DVD

2002.9.27　 Text: Sachiko Kurashina

His illustrations look poor but they are really good. A CD album "Pillow Talks" was made with a motif of Teruhiko Yumura a.k.a. Telly Johnson before and this album is reborn through motions and graphics in DVD now. Th...

ART CAPSULE TOY PROJECT VOL.2

2002.6.28　 Text: Sachiko Kurashina

Just a few coins let you enjoy art. The second "Time Capsule - Art Capsule Toy Project" will be launched this summer. The last project had an ace-high reputation, therefore the project has more expectations this tim...

WXIII PATLABORS

2002.5.28　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

"In the Labor-crime history, the most tragic story is going up". The Japanese animation "Patlabor" was released in various media (e.g.comics, TV, video and movie). The story is set in the near future where highly adav...

PUBLIC INFORMATION SYMBOLS

2002.4.27　 Text: Satoshi Ota

You might not be able to have a clear idea when you hear the word "the Public Information Symbols." The aim of making these symbols is to standardize the information symbols that are used in transports, sightse...

ART CAPSULE TOY PROJECT

2002.2.28　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Burying your precious things and digging them up after a few decades when you grow up you will definitely feel the nostalgia for your childhood. A time capsule is able to give you a feeling of that sort of excitemen...

WATER PLANET

2001.9.17　 Text: Yoko Akiyoshi

The third issue of 'Water Planet' (an art book containing water themes) has just gone on sale. This book has attracted the attention as the first and second issues have already been available overseas as well as in Ja...