And so I'm off, leaving TYO-town for the next three weeks in a trip that will first take me to Boston for a week (my wife is doing some research at Harvard), two weeks in my hometown of Moncton, New

Art Space Tokyo has released another downloadable PDF art map, this time for the Roppongi area.time savedtime saved

Frequent PauseTalker Chris Kirby is currently holding an exhibition, the "Negative Series," at the cafe until July 7. Says Chris about the show: I've created a new line of porcelain ware and am showing it for the first time at

Can't find those TAB art maps around town? Now you can download them as a PDF as well. Here's a link to the June/July edition.time savedtime saved

For everyone who's missed the Nadiff art bookshop, it re-opens next week (July 7) in a new art building in Ebisu that will also be the new home of Magical Artroom and G/P Gallery. More details at Art Space Tokyo.time

This month's edition of my "On Design" column was published last week in The Japan Times, and can be read online here. I covered the Tepra Pro label writer, PORE's Lessev, the Plus Minus Zero Fan, Fumie Shibata's fumfum magazine

Digiki has just released a new EP through Tokyo Fun Party, Encore Music. It's available for download from all the major online stores, and you'll find the links here.time savedtime saved

Shantell Martin sure likes to use her Wacom tablet when she does live performances and events, so much so that Wacom ended up doing a case study on her. I've embeded a video that's part of the piece, but read

Tokyo guerilla gardening in action. Via Boing Boing.time savedtime saved

Over the past few months I know a few of you have asked about the Palla poster that was being offered as part of the "A Swarm of Angels" project. I'd ordered one — same as many of you —

PingMag covers RFID aesthetics. This has got to be their most esoteric topic yet, but interesting none the less.time savedtime saved

I'm afraid I'm having to cancel the July edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 23) because, well, I'll be out of the country. I'm heading to the US and Canada for three weeks — first time back in three years — and

The current issue of Kateigaho International (20) has a feature on interior design, kicking off with interviews of Simplicity, Super Potato, Masamichi Katayama (Wonderwall), and Akihito Fumita, conducted by the likes of Gelman, Gwenael Nicolas, and Mark Dytham.I contributed the

Foreign fans of tabloid journalism in Japan will be quite saddened by the news that The Mainichi Daily News has decided to end the popular WaiWai column. More from Marxy over at META no TAME.time savedtime saved

My weekly Tokyo post at MoCo Loco is up, this time covering Cocco's Branco bench, Michiko Fukuoka's TERU-TERU wind chimes, Flame's Cappuccino Light, and the "Japanese Design at the Milano Salone 2008" exhibition at the Tokyo Design Center.For the exhibition,

My good friend Brian has a piece in the current issue of design magazine Metropolis on Nendo's office in Meguro. You can read it online here.time savedtime saved

TAB has released its second Tokyo Art Map, this time adding two new areas (Harajuku and Yokohama), and featuring five event previews. TAB is also looking for some help in spreading the art gospel — if interested, check the following

PingMag interviews artist/designer Sven Ingmar Thies about his book Japanese Rooms, which I mentioned a while back.time savedtime saved

Ping Tentacle reports on the Astro Boy pictured above, made up of 138,000 recycled subway tickets, on display at the Shinjuku Takashimaya department store.time savedtime saved