March 10th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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© Yoshikazu Yamagata

What is fashion? What can we do with fashion?
Fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata, works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion and tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his collections at Japan Fashion Week, including “The Everyone’s New Clothes” which questioned what fashion was about, ”Graduate Fashion Show 0′ Point”, which showcased the strength of starting from zero in fashion and “The Fashion Show of The Gods”, his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, which examined the origins of creation, presented in October 2009.

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March 8th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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A record number of visitors attended the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival held in The National Art Center, Tokyo, in February. The 12 day festival was launched in 1997, to promote the creation and development of media arts. This years festival received more than 2,500 works from 54 countries, about 180 award-winning works and jury-recommended works. The festival highlights four art divisions including media based art, entertainment, animation and manga.

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February 15th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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The creative conference HIGH5 3 took place in Yokohamao last month (Jan 23). Organized by the creative portal site HITSPAPER, HIGH5 was held for the third time and included six presentations with the central theme being “Galapagos“, which was a metaphorical expression for the isolated cellphone market in Japan. And industries requiring universal standards worldwide because of globalisation and development of technologies.

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February 8th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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Strongly inspired by Japanese manga, Fantasista Utamaro creates works across several creative mediums including illustration, textile, graphic design and film production. Examples of Utamaro’s work include an illustration for Tokyo Bar in NY and manga works for mashcomix.

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January 31st, 2010 - marikot - 1 Comment
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The ten_do_ten exhibition "Female nude and picture book craft paintching!" Photo: Naoshi Usuda (www.usudanaoshi.com)

Welcome to the world of red, white and black pixels…
Known as one of the leading Japanese pixel designers, TEN aka ten_do_ten has just released his new book entitled: “CALM & PUNK Book #1 ten_do_ten” and hosted an exhibition to celebrate the book launch last December.

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January 29th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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The Flash festival FITC Tokyo 2009, was held in Japan for the first time last year.

One of the largest and longest running events of its kind in the world, FITC covers everything from Flash design, to motion design, creative inspiration, to other technologies like Flex, Air and processing. The festival, now in its’ eighth year, has toured through ten cities and five countries, with over 700 presentations and over 10,000 attendees annually.

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Mariko Takei

Editor for SHIFT magazine. Born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. Lived in Tokyo, and USA for studying Interior Architectue at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Currently live in Sapporo, a capital city of Hokkaido where is located in the north Japan. Hokkaido has a vast area of land with full of nature, which I enjoy a lot. Good drink in Sapporo is of course Sapporo Beer!


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