Love it!

I saw these rings on designverb...

For more info, or to buy them, go here.

This is so fun!

Pocky's website has a "Pocky Board" where you can create pictures and words out of different flavoured pocky sticks!
It is interactive with other users that are on the site at the same time so you can all fight over the yummy pocky hehe.

Just a warning...but most likely any attempt to make an english letter
will be turned into a Japanese character .2 seconds after making it.

Yay I can't wait to go!

The New Museum of Contemporary Art opens next week (Dec 1st!). It was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA. I love most of the architecture by SANAA, & from the photos this building looks pretty cool, I don't know how I feel about the aluminum mesh though, could make or break it...I guess I'll decide when I see it for real.

Yet another mind-blowing Japanese designer...

His name is Masahiko Sato.
He did this amazing intro to Issey Miyake's site...


Made this sweet video...



And his website is really sick too!

Can't sleep, too much awesome stuff to see!!!

So cool!!! This fold out lamp actually works!!!!


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Sooo...a long time ago I said I wanted to have all these crazy balloons for my next birthday.
But now my friend showed me this idea so now it can be ever better!!! Put LEDs inside
some of the balloons! Seriously, how amazing would that be?!!!


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P.S. off the same site as the lamp... How sick is this phone?!!!!


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This site is pretty and their work is pretty great too! Studio Aad


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Marimekko has so many beautiful new prints!!!



And these 2 aren't Marimekko but are also nice, the first is designed by Anna Sorensson,
and the second is braile fabric designed by SALDO Ljungbergs.


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This guy (Christopher David Ryan) is so talented! His site has tons of beautiful work.

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MUJI OPENED TODAYYY!!!!!!!

I bought a wool blanket, wall calendar, glass beaker, and a teeny
screw driver set, and got a totebag and colored pencils for freeeee.
All so nice and clean and wonderful!

yayyyyyy
Overall I guess the experience was a little dissapointing for how excited I was
but I'm more just super happy to have one in the area I can go to anytime!

And as predicted basically every single person there was either Japanese,
or blatantly looked like a designer. hahah.
P.S. My friend thinks shemay have seen David Carson there!?



...ill post photos later today...

I have so many things to say, but they can wait...

just take a minute or two and just look at this awesome design.

12:11:
oki I lied... I need to say a few more things.
Today was such an awesome day, if for nothing else than the fact that it restored my faith that there is a lot of really amazing design out there.

Anyone who loves design and wants to be inspired should sacrifice the $40 for the latest issue of Print Magazine, the Regional Design Annual. There is so much amazing work in it.

And saving the best for last...
I just got Kenya Hara's book "Designing Design" in the mail today.

Now imagine if you took that book cover and band off and that same text was imprinted white on a slightly pearly white fabric background. OMG seriously I'm in love. You NEED this book.

Even their poo smiles.

The world is a happier place because of Japan...




update: 10:37pm

And my world is a happier place because of Shinichi Osawa.
Please download The Golden and his remix of Pogo by Digitalism ASAP!!!!!!!
Seriously...you won't be sorry.
The very least you can do is listen to The Golden on his myspace.

: 0= [puke-face]

DO THEY ENJOY MAKING ME VOMIT???



I have seen some of these taxis in real life and tried to immediately purge the image from my brain as to not get
a migrane from the ugliness, but now that I found out who is responsible for this design, I feel the need to
openly express my disgust so I can sleep a little easier tonight. It was Wolff Olins. The same people that made
me projectile vomit a few months ago with their 2012 olympic logo.

Seriously can't someone arrest them for like crimes against humanity or something?
They need to be stopped.

Thank you computerlove!

I love this show!!!!
The Day The Universe Changed