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Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are lovely, and can act as a robust focal point in any home. But accessing the high shelves can be a problem. The common side-kick has always been ladders, which can also add character and charm. But for smaller homes like in Japan they can be a nuisance, occupying too much space for not enough usage. But Japanese architect Shinsuke Fujii came up with a simple, yet bri
“In Hokkaido where I live, winters are harsh and snows are deep,” says photographer Eiji Ohashi. “Every day can become rather inconvenient” due to the constant snowfall. But heavy snows also bring wintry wonderlands and the discovery of small pleasures. One snowy night. Ohashi was walking outside when he found himself transfixed by the form of snow that had piled up on top of a vending machine. Ja
For all their charm and nostalgia, black and white photos do create a certain disconnect between the past and present. Looking at them, it’s easy to forget that we’re connected to that time by what is merely a blink of an eye in the grand scale of history. And so it’s worth colorizing old black and white photos if only for the contemporaneity, with which we use to learn from history. Woman and chi
When it comes to art and craft, there’s a fine line between the two. Can art be utilitarian? Can craft be simply decorative without serving any functional purpose? What ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto wants to do is to take that fine line and crumple it into a ball and kick it around a little. After studying ceramics at the Kyoto City University of Arts, Masumoto spent some time in a residence progr
FamilyMart, Japan’s 3rd largest convenience store chain, and UNY, the owner of fourth-ranked Circle K Sunkus, merged this week, creating the country’s second-largest convenience store chain. And today, the newly formed company announced it’s new name and logo: FU. In a press release sent out on September 1, the company stated that the first letters of each company, the F and the U, had been used t
Eiji, the protagonist in David Mitchell’s novel number9dream described Tokyo as “too close up to see.” His experience of the metropolis goes on: “There are no distances and everything is above your head – dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.” Indeed, evil or not, cities can be thought of as
July 21, 2016 / Johnny / Comments Off on An Exhibition of Japanese Portable Record Players The 1960s ushered in the golden age of record players as affordability made them a staple in almost every household. In Japan however, quality stereo sets remained unattainable for most, who then gravitated to a smaller, more affordable gadget: the portable record player. The devices were cheap, mass-produce
a young man delivering soba alond Meguro-dori in Tokyo. Photo courtesy koitaro Nowadays when we order takeout we open an app, push a few buttons and 30 minutes later someone shows up on a motorcycle with your food. But in the olden days in Japan it was obviously a bit different. Demae, which literally means “to go in front of” is thought to have originated as early as the mid-Edo period in the 170
photographer Yuki Aoyama provides a lift-me-up to businessmen across Japan through the simple action of jumping. Japanese business men, with their dull suits and carefully orchestrated combovers (also known as barcode hair styles) have been the butt of jokes, both in media and in colloquial chit-chat, for as long as I can remember. Younger generations call them ossan, or boring old man, and ridicu
Chocolatexture: chocolates that represent Japanese onomatopoeic words to describe texture There are many factors that determine our experience with chocolate: the type of cocoa, the percentage used, and the flavors. But when Maison et Objet, the pre-eminent design show in France, told Oki Sato that they were naming him Designer Of The Year and asked him to design a set of chocolates, he had to pau
Incorporating the nostalgic gachapon capsule dispenser into their project, four art students created 3-dimensional typographic hiragana. The miniature font-figures feature the first character of hiragana あ (pronounced ah) and was created in two fonts: Mincho and Gothic. The font figures are adorable alone, but we love how they are presented inside a gachapon dispenser and fit inside a capsule. The
[UPDATE 5/9/2016] Megumi Igarashi was found guilty in court today for violating Japanese obscenity laws after distributing 3D data of her genitals. She was fined 400K yen (about $3700). She was, however, cleared of another charge relating to displaying a kayak modeled after her vagina. Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi was arrested on Monday for sending 3D modeling data of her vagina. She’s accused
“Cherry Blossoms of Historical Castle site” (2006) “I never used Excel at work but I saw other people making pretty graphs and thought, ‘I could probably draw with that,’” says 73-year old Tatsuo Horiuchi. About 13 years ago, shortly before retiring, Horiuchi decide he needed a new challenge in his life. So he bought a computer and began experimenting with Excel. “Graphics software is expensive bu
Nestled amongst the shopping streets of old town Kamakura, just steps from the station, is a butcher shop unlike any other. Renovated by Design Eight, the shop of over 60 years received a face-lift earlier this year to much acclaim. I want a modern look that fits with the landscape of Kamakura, the owner told the designers. But I also want it to prioritize my longstanding client base, rather than
10,000 feet above sea – five months straight – four years in a row. For 600 days Yu Yamauchi lived in a hut near the summit of Mt. Fuji, getting up while it was still dark to photograph the sunrise every day, from the same location. The resulting series, titled “DAWN,” is a stunning look at the colorful, sometimes abstract view of Earth waking up. This space, “above the clouds,” exists far from th
Eisuke Tachikawa, who designs by the name Nosigner, is the mastermind behind several brilliant projects including the moon lamp and OLIVE, a diy handbook for disaster refugees. His latest endeavor is Comicalu, a curated selection of manga-inspired products. Amongst the selection is Mika Tsutai’s manga dishes, Noto Fusai’s Canvas Works and Nami Mizuguchi’s Carne Vale. The website just launched and
The so called Supermoon – the lunar occurance on March 19th in which the moon appeared 14% bigger and 30% brighter – was both an event and a non-event. What it didn’t do, as many have hypothesized would be a result of increased gravitational forces, was cause large-scale natural destruction. What it did end up doing, in an ironic turn of events, was shine down beautifully on the people of Japan, i
In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama – a protégé of Toyo Ito – has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob. As you approach the doorknob you catch a glimpse of what appears to be another world, waiting for you to enter and join, but in fact is a reflection of the room on the other side of the door. When I fir
Hideo Kanbara of Barakan Design has embarked on an interesting thought experiment. What if hiragana were 3-dimensional? His website provides an example using the first character of the table, あ (a). Front view | click images to enlarge Top view Side view (screenshot of an animated rotation)
images courtesy of Yukihiro Akama Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place,’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The display will feature 52 wooden houses, each crafted from a single piece of wood, ranging from a mere 4cm to a grand 105cm and accompanied by architectural drawings and mini prints. Continue reading From the deep fores
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