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- GRiD TAG goes on sale!Yesterday
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GRiD is a new line of products that won a recent Good Design Award! And the first to hit stores is the GRiD TAG, a USB device beautifully designed by Takuya Matsuda. I admit it’s quite adorable but I have to wonder; would the stick-like shape kind of get in the way?
- Shiseido Art Egg winners announcedJanuary 6
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For the past 2 years Shiseido has hosted Shiseido Art Egg, a project to support young up-and-coming artists. From hundreds of proposals 3 winners were selected and recently announced. The winners work will be on display at the Shiseido Gallery, luxuriously located in the Shiseido headquarters in Ginza.
1) Aiko Miyanaga. Jan 9th – Feb 1st
Aiko receved her MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts last year. A majority of her work deals with the chemical compound Naphthalene, which she uses to model everyday objects. The properties of the chemical then cause the objects to gradually transition form a solid to a gas, illustrating a fleeting and almost destructive sense of time.
Images - Yuji Tokuda | Art DirectorJanuary 5
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Happy New Year!!
I introduced the work of art director Yuji Tokuda late last month but thought I would take a deeper dive because I feel like he is operating under the radar and his work definitely warrants more attention.
These are a series of advertisements done for Japan Lighting Design, a company specializing in interior lighting. Instead of displaying the product, Tokuda chose to communicate the warmth and atmosphere created by the company’s products.
I actually remember seeing this ad on a train once for Suntory bottled water. Tokuda incorporates actual vegetation that grows around where the water is bottled. The ad reads, “there are others out there, pickier about their water than us.”
- the best ____ of 2008December 29 2008
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I’m troubled. This could very well be my last post of 2008. So I thought I would make it special. And yet I lack the creativity and energy to come up with something, anything on my own. Hence the dilemma. Every year people do roundups of the best ____ of that year. So this is what I’ll do; a roundup of all the roundups! Art & Design related, that is. So here we go. For all the people who slept through 2008 and need to fill in the gaps, just between you and me, let’s just pretend this is all that happened. May 2009 be an adventurous year for all!
- t’was the night before Christmas…December 24 2008
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…and I was wondering what to write about.
Then I remembered this awesome project by artistic director and graphic designer Yuji Tokuda.Retired Weapons was originally launched in 2005 as a graphic design project that attempted to spread the word of peace. I think the images are spectacular and so striking.“Retired Gun”
“Retired Rockets”
“Retired Bomb”
I want a flower vase shaped like one of these.
There are a couple animated greeting cards that you can send as well!So, here’s wishing that more people retire their weapons next year and turn them into flower vases. Me
