Category Archives: Japan

QR Code Building

By Chungaiz | Published: January 11, 2010

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo. If the future is giant barcodes on the side of buildings, not only will I likely be out of a job, but it would be a shame for the whole creative marketing industry… but of course with every closed door a new one opens. With that in mind, being [...]

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Space Invading – Architecture Blog

By Chungaiz | Published: January 20, 2009

Space Invading has been set up by Archinect, the cool resource for all things architecture. A very cool collection of beautiful living spaces – mostly real, but some imagined – for your perusal. I think it’s fed in by RSS feeds, but in the future I’d not be surprised if they went for a NotCot [...]

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Muji Awards 2008

By Andy | Published: December 10, 2008

This straw won the Muji awards this year – a clever oberservation-turned-product. And a sustainable one too, seeing as we’re on that tip today. And here is one of the runners up – a camelia washing up powder. Again, a clever and more ecologically friendly product. View the rest of the 2008 Muji Awards winners here

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Super Kaiju Godzilla Anatomical Battel!!

By Chungaiz | Published: October 27, 2008

Anatomical drawings are not new, but check these Kaiju dissections of Godzilla, Jiger, Guiron, Gamera and more over at Pink Tentacle. Kaiju Big Battel madness can be seen here

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Tokyo Eye Denim Special

By Chungaiz | Published: July 23, 2008

Denim special on NHK’s Tokyo Eye, looking at all the denim hot spots in Tokyo town. Click here to watch the Google video. Oh, and it’s got a spot about Curry in Japan too, right at the end.

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Uniclock

By Chungaiz | Published: July 15, 2008

I’m not late on this, I just thought that someone should post it up. The Uniclock is lovely, charming, and vaguely useful. The music is great too!

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KIOSK

By Silver | Published: June 6, 2008

Great little Shop selling miscellaneous objects collected from around the world…. “Kiosk: An independent stand from which merchandise is sold, often placed in the common area of a shopping center. Kiosk is a store located in SoHo, New York. We offer a curated range of products from all over the world. Everything is sourced during our travels; [...]

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W-Base. Japanese fixie label.

By Andy | Published: June 4, 2008

W-base are a japanese Fixie/courier related company. Check the W-base online store for LOTS of nice stuff, including the ‘resistant’ bag, available in lots of fetching colours to co-ordinate with your fixie.

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Studio Ghibli Makes Ursula LeGuin’s “Tales from Earthsea”

By Chungaiz | Published: May 15, 2008

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video “Two years ago, Goro Miyazaki found himself in a terrifying position. Anime producers Studio Ghibli tapped him to direct his first feature film, Gedo Senki, based on the classic novel Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin. LeGuin had released the rights to Earthsea [...]

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