Sunshine Studio in Harajuku Tokyo is celebrating its third anniversary! Read more…
Tokyo and Sendai based visual design studio WOW launched a new project called “WOW id project“, in which each designer from WOW draws out their own individuality by featuring their new video works created with their own personal touch. Read more…
Some of you might remember that I reported about an exhibition of Japanese artist Hiroki Tsukuda, last fall. Hiroki Tsukuda is a Tokyo-based artist who creates a range of works, including drawings, paintings and 3D pieces. He is now exhibiting 100 new figure toys for his solo exhibition “4010 NIGHT TIME” at TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS. Here is an interview with the artist who revealed his new works for 4010 NIGHT TIME.
If you’re looking for something inspirational, you might want to check out the newly released book, GENGA, by Hiraku Suzuki. The book contains exactly 1000 illustrations dedicated to language and the galaxy. Inspired by every aspect in his immediate environment, GENGA is a dictionary-sized microcosm made out of numerous signals that communicate times between present and future.
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- GENGA #001 / marker on Xerox paper / 210 x 297 mm copyright © Hiraku Suzuki
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- GENGA #243 / marker on Xerox paper / 210 x 297 mm copyright © Hiraku Suzuki
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- GENGA #360 / marker on Xerox paper / 210 x 297 mm copyright © Hiraku Suzuki
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- GENGA #958 / marker on Xerox paper / 210 x 297 mm copyright © Hiraku Suzuki
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- The Passage / 2004 / installation view at Karl Jjohans Torg (Stockholm, Sweden)1300 copies of drawings , spray glue/33m copyright © Hiraku Suzuki
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- GENGA #001 – #900 / 2004 – 2008 /installation view at “Diorama of the city” (2008) at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (Tokyo) photo by Ooki Jingu © Hiraku Suzuki
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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- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
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- Twitter Plaza / Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Kosuke Kawase “Bearings Glocken II”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Lawrence Malstaf “Nemo Observatorium”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Ei Wada “Braun Tube Jazz Band”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- David Bowen “growth modeling device”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Magico Nakamura, Masayoshi Nakamura, Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland “Hibi no Neiro”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Makoto Yukimura “VINLAND SAGA”/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- © Yukimura Makoto/Kodansha / “VINLAND SAGA”
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- Takahiro Yamaguchi “Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09″/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- Reading manga/ Photo: Kayo Tamura
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- © Alvaro CASSINELLI / Alvaro CASSINELL, MANABE Daito, KURIBARA Yusaku, Alexis ZERROUG “scoreLight”
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- © Junghwan Sung / Junghwan SUNG representing Mr. Lee Experiment creative team “Mr. Lee Experiment”
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- © 2009 Japan Media Arts Festival. All rights reserved.
A Sendai-based internationally active designer as well as an owner of the interior showroom ‘international‘, Koichiro Kimura opened his second showroom “koichiro kimura aoyama” in Aoyama Tokyo in September 2009.
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- koichiro kimura aoyama facade / © koichiro kimura aoyama
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- Shop space on the gound floor / © koichiro kimura aoyama
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- Haute-Couture “Swarovski”, Prtable Ashtray, 2007 / © International
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- BOX, Yellow / Pink, 2006 / © International
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- NEW WAVE, GOLD Cup, Saucer & Spoon Set, 2006 / © International
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- International, Sendai / © International
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- Kawara, 2008 / © International
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- Piece of Peace, 2008 / © International
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- M-Chair, 2007 / © International
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- USB Memory Stick, 2008 / © International
