Archive for the ‘art in Tokyo’ Category
Cross stitch artist, Makoto Ozu invented hand made watch named as K-SHOCK.
K-SHOCK made with knitting wool. “K” is as same prpnounciation as wool in Japanese.
Ozu is amazing artist for unique cross stich pattern. He stitches on note book and partation bord.
Hop Stitch Jump
my stitch book
My friend has stationary brand, bonboog. She made new item. It’s a ball pen with dry flower. That name is Classic pen. I have mimoza flower pen.
There are also another kind of pens with artificial flowers, such as anemones.
They available at some museum shop in Tokyo.
Jimmy Choo press team told us about their photo competition, PROJECT PEP – You, your shoes and 72 to raise awareness and funds for AIDS victims. Grand Prize is amazing!! Let’s try to enter this competition.
THE COMPETITION
Jimmy Choo and Elton John AIDS Foundation have launched a photo competition to support the launch of Project PEP, a charity collection that donates 25% of sales to the Simelela Rape Centre in South Africa. The money goes towards providing the HIV-preventative treatment PEP (which must be taken within 72 hours of exposure to HIV) and counselling to victims of rape in South Africa, which has the highest count of rape in the world.
ENTRIES
The theme of the photo competition is ‘You, Your Shoes and 72’, and as you can see from some of the photo entries below, we’ve had a very diverse response over the past few weeks:
PRIZES
The overall winners will be announced after the competition close on 7th December. On offer is a Grand Prize of the ultimate Jimmy Choo VIP experience – the winner will be invited to spend a day of luxury and the Jimmy Choo HQ and choose 7 pairs of shoes and 2 handbags to keep. Plus over 100 exclusive Jimmy Choo prizes will also be awarded.
Suso Akiko is a cute woman who works as an illustrator and also a hat designer.
An exhibition featuring her works as a hat designer was held in Aoyama, Tokyo.
The exhibition was inspired by Japan’s prehistoric Jomon earthware.
Everybody is trying funny but cute hat and Hair bands,and having happy fun time at the exhibition.
Suso Akiko official site (japanese)
Suso Akiko (1101.com /japanese)
All of the furniture are made from cardboard!
These are tough enough to sit, display, storage, listening music,…and more and more.
“cardboard house” is not a joyful words especially at Shinjuku area(it means problem of homeless), however these are like a dreamy secretbase of my childhood!
Tokyu Hands (japanese)
Google Maps
Hotel Claska is known well as designer’s hotel in Tokyo. The concept of Claska is to stay as living. You can enjoy Japanese modern living style to stay there.
There are art space and souvenir shop in it.
Our leader and bag designer, Yoko Tsukamatsu published new book of koginzashi. Koginzashi is a traditional and exquisite embroidery works from Northern part of Japan.
This book was written by Yoko and culinary artist Ricca Fukuda. They team up the unit named “Fugeiten“.
Fugeiten re-appreciated Mingei movement(the Japanese folk art movement in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan). And now they re-produce koginzashi with modern attitude.
They suggest how to stitch koginzashi on bags, jeans and scarfs on this book. Now available on Amazon.co.jp
Amazon.co.jp: koginzashi no hon
Bijin-tokei is one of popular web service in Japanes internet services. Every minutes cute girls show the time with blackbord. Now it is converted for iPhone App.
Their photos seems to be taken at Shibuya and Harajuku. They are amateur models but they are so fashionable and so cute .
bjin-tokei (English)
