For Japanese movies lovers, December has been a generous month with the release on DVD from Bandai’s sublabel Honneamise of Takeshi Kitano’s latest film Outrage (??????), that was presented at the last Cannes Film Festival. Outrage celebrates his return to the world of yakuza by depicting a power struggle among Tokyo gangsters, and Kitano plays …
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We are already familiar with Rafaël Rozendaal’s work from his last year performance in Berlin at the AFK Sculpture Park, but it is time for a deeper insight of his portfolio especially in the light of generative art, a creative trend that is gaining steam. Rafaël is not an artist in the common use of the term: …
Kwangho Lee – Lifelike Design Design-art dealer, Victor Hunt, and select store, Hunting and Collection, have organized on the occasion of Brussels Design September, an exhibition dedicated to Korean designer, Kwangho Lee. Behind Lee’s works , there is a natural ability to create with bare hands and crafting skills that allow himto manipulate raw materials – …
Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect, finally won recognition from her country of adoption as she grasped the U.K.’s 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize for her MAXXI Museum in Rome. Hadid had been previously nominated three other times for the Stirling, the U.K.’s top architecture award, and lost every time. She competed against names of the likes of …
Tokyo Designers Week will start on October 29 celebrating its 25th anniversary. The event has become a landmark on the international design calendar and this year will be the biggest exhibition yet as thousands of creators descend on the world’s trendiest capital. Following the success of the previous year Green, the theme Love Blue is …
The 4th edition of Design September Brussels has just closed its doors offering nearly 80 events hosted in more than 100 locations across the Belgian capital. Year after year, galleries, associations, institutions and other independent organisations have joined the forces in order to offer a rich and varied programme that encompass design in the form …
From the 23rd to the 26th of April, Brussels will become a real Mecca for professionals, artists, critics, collectors or simply art lovers. The 28th edition of the Art Brussels Art Fair will host the works of more than 1 500 artists showing a selection of their finest paintings, sculptures,photos, video, and installations.
The delicate illustrations of the talented Japanese NewYork-based artist, Yoko Furusho, are a celebration of pastels colors, ageless girls and ethereal landscapes. A delicious exotic graphic smoothie of Alice in Wonderland, Yoshimoto Nara and old Japanese animation topped with love for fashion and details.
Akira Minagawa has created clothes and textiles since 1995 that embodies aesthetic combination of simplicity and beauty. Deeply influenced by the Scandinavian design, Minagawa’s brand Minä Perhonen – literally in Finnish: “I Butterfly” – merges the finish and dye quality of Japanese textiles with minimalist elegance of North European tradition.
It’s all about character! The Pictoplasma Festival will take place in Berlin April 9-10 with his massive turnout of designers from all walks, including character artists, directors, animators, and illustrators. If you work with or -simply love – the visualisation and application of character design you cannot really miss this extended weekend of screening, artist talks, interdisciplinary …
The Tail Gunner from tokyoplastic on Vimeo. The genius creators at Tokyo Plastic have been working hard to release their new character’s epic series: Kitteh Kitteh, a superfurry and apparently ultra cute cat with delusions of omnipotence. The concept is not new but the result meets the expectation and you cannot avoid at least to …
Let’s get back to the fashionable world of street-couture headphones. If you are already familiar with names like WESC, Skullcandy and Urbanears you cannot miss the Japanese brand Mix-Style.
