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Posts Tagged ‘Urban Landscape’
Tokyo Ginza Station Design Contest and Renewal Campaign
Tokyo Metro’s advertising campaign for the renewal of all stations on the Ginza Line and design contest for redesigning Ginza Station in Tokyo. Read more
Adventures in Japanese UI design: Acure Drinks Vending Machine
The impressive UI (User Interface) of the Japanese Acure drinks vending machine. Read more
Kitte – The visual identity design of a renovated post office building
Kitte (キッテ) literally meaning postage stamp in Japanese, is the name of a redeveloped part of the old Tokyo Central Post Office building opposite of Tokyo station. In in the course of (…) Read more
Meet Toranomon, the mascot of the new Landmark in Tokyo Toranomon Hills
Toranomon Hills is a new landmark building and urban redevelopment located between Roppongi and Shimbashi in Tokyo. Toranomon Hills (虎ノ門ヒルズ) is a project under Mori Building Co. Ltd and will be opening on 11th June (…) Read more
Tokyo Camouflage – Interview with Designer Haruka Matsubara
Interview with Haruka Matsubara, a Japanese designer who ingeniously replicated Tokyo’s urban landscape as fashion concept for her graduation project. Read more
Spaceship command bridge meets retail bank branch – SMBC Shukugawa
This is probably one of the most slick retail bank branches imaginable, it could easily pass as a designer boutique. Or a spaceship command bridge. Surely Captain James T. Kirk would have been pleased. Read more
Tokyo Reverse
Ever heard of Slow TV? It`s a new film genre in which an event is filmed in it`s entirety – often live – and afterwards also broadcast in the same pace in it`s entirety.
This is also the formula which French Ludovic Zuili and and his production partner Simon Bouisson used to create Tokyo Reverse. Read more
Everyday Usability in Japan (Part 3)
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we looked at some of the intriguing aspects of the way people’s everyday lives are affected by design in Japan. Whether the result of a (…) Read more
Why Japanese Web Design Is So… Different
In the mind’s eye of many people Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of (…) Read more
