After very successful runs in Rome and London, "The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945," an exhibition of maquettes, photographs, plans and drawings, is now in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. For providing an extensive look at varied and eclectic forms that ...
How do you solve a geopolitical problem like Kim Jong Un? Containment? Embargoes? Propaganda? Regime change? Synchronized baseball?
As a boy in the 1980s, Yuri Suzuki fell under the spell of video games and his father's record collection. The family home was in bustling Shibuya Ward, near the border with Shinjuku, and the influence of global cultures within its walls was strong. ...
The transport ministry will hold a contest to decide a background design for special license plates commemorating the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. Funds raised through the project will benefit barrier-free busses and taxis. Applications will be accepted through a special website between Jan. 6 ...
My 4-year-old daughter's eyes light up when she spies something sitting on the work table. Unlike her normal playtime preferences, it is not a rainbow-haired unicorn, felt tip pens or a plastic doll that has caught her attention — it's an industrial looking electric ...
Colorful and cluttered, the office bursts with paraphernalia, from stacked bicycles and piles of books on designer chairs to an apple-green iMac, a futuristic record player and a red Snoopy phone on the rosewood desk. This is, of course, no ordinary office — it's the ...
Kyouei Design's flashy bookmark The tech-savvy may prefer to read e-books from tablets these days, especially since one of the advantages is that the device is often backlit making it easier to see text in dim environments. Printed matter, however, never seems to lose its ...
June 14-July 31 The French term "toile de jouy" translates as the "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas," a chintz-producing town in the south-west suburbs of Paris, and it refers to a specific style of textile that was used for both clothing and furnishings. These monochromatic printed textiles ...
People with obscure, degenerative nerve disorders with no known cures. A biologist exploring the use of fruit flies as an alternative to mice to test drug compounds. A designer who makes his own laser cutter. All of them have collaborated for a unique exhibition ...
A total of 311 designs survived the first round of the second Tokyo Olympics logo competition, the organizers said Monday. Twelve members of the logo selection committee voted on the designs after they were displayed on screens. The selection process was streamed on the Internet ...
Organizers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics said they received 14,599 proposals for the new logo before the noon Monday deadline. The emblem selection committee had hoped for at least 10,000 submissions after only 104 were provided for the ill-fated previous competition, which was restricted to ...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Organizing Committee has received more than over 2,500 designs for a new logo, the selection panel's chairman said. Organizers began accepting new submissions Nov. 24, and by 5:30 p.m. Monday, 2,559 had been received. Seeking a broad spectrum of ideas, the ...
