"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-...

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) ...

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...

GASARAKI

1999.2.22　 Text: Akira Natsume

As I wrote in my Best 5 last month, I'm watching animations almost every day. Recently I came to watch Gasaraki (Ryousuke Takahashi), but it starts from nine thirty in the morning. My girlfriend watched it and wonde...

SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN

1998.9.28　 Text: Chibashi

You must be in the situation accessing to internet now. And you may have your mail account and communicate with many people by e-mail. Moreover, you may have your homepage and send information to invisible people, ...

COMMONS & SENSE

1998.7.21　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

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...

DICO

1998.6.21　 Text: Atsuko Kobayashi

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...

AKIRA NATSUME × TORU HACHIGA “CREATIONS TOWARD TO THE YEAR 2001”

1998.5.28　 Text: Akira Natsume

In the latest issue of GASBOOK, media-mix projects were carried forward together with some different media ; Information and interviews were provided in Shift and Design-Plex and arts works were in CD-ROM. This style ...