Tag: Design

No, those are not stars in a planetarium. They are watch parts. Spiral's trademark atrium space was transformed by Citizen into "Light is Time", a special installation that saw countless watch ...

Shiseido's Hanatsubaki digital archive is a fascinating glimpse back into Japan's cosmetics advertising past. Drawing on the graphic design and ads featured over the years in Hanatsubaki, ...

Japan's biggest design showcase Tokyo Designers Week (TDW) landed again for the year in the Gaienmae Aoyama area. We went along to check out the exhibits. Here are our ...

UK design studio johnson banks has come up with this brilliant take on Japanese katakana that combines the phonetical reading of the character in the font. They call it Phonetikana. The font ...

teamLab has got together with Gucci to create "Infinity of Flowers", an interactive digital installation at the Gucci Shinjuku store from September 13th. Visitors will be able to "touch" the ...

Some of the best household items in Japan come courtesy of the brand Plus D, which works with a range of individual designers to come up with fun, original and practical objects. Past successes ...

Japan may well be the land of home electronics (Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba et al) but on the whole apartments and houses are small. It only takes a few appliances for things to get very ...

Spiral Garden in Omotesando will be celebrating the stage design work of protean Japanese comedian, actor, writer, director and artist Kentaro Kobayashi. The "Art Made by Kentaro Kobayshi for ...

While Japan might at times seem just to be one concrete jungle, there's still a lot of nature around and even some cities maintain a rare balance between the forests of old and the convenience ...

Mitsukoshi Isetan have teamed up with fashion brand minä perhonen (despite the name, not actually Finnish) to offer a new take on a classic item of modern Japanese convenience. Isetan is ...

We remember the good ol' days when every tech blog was keen-eyed for the latest development from Japan, when mainstream newspapers at least partly seemed to take Japanese fashion seriously, and... ...

Sumitomo 3M has created a special website for creating fashion items online, controlled by the volume of your voice. The "Scotch Summer Holidays Family Kousaku Paper Fashion Kids" (or just Scotch ...

Following the 2013 bikes and other merchandise, HRM Goodsmile Racing Bike Project has created three new snazzy Hatsune Miku racing bikes. The Racing Miku Hatsune Miku GT comes in three models: ...

Glico's Papico ice cream has upped the marketing for its summer campaign and this apparently means appealing to the inner moe in every Japanese consumer. The frozen snack has relaunched with new ...

Toyota has once again collaborated with Znug Design to produce another fun Camatte booth for the Tokyo Toy Show. Following the Camatte's first appearance in the 2012 and 2013 editions of the fair ...