09.10.02
Tokyo Graphic Passport will start with a Visualist Symposium with 6 speakers, such as Hideki Nakajima, Hideki Inaba and Mika Ninagawa. On day two, creative directors of international Magazines will introduce their works and visions in the International Magazine Conferrence.
Visualist Symposium@
Harajuku Bellesale on Sunday, Oct. 11th
and the International Magazine Conferrence@
Kudan Kaikan on Monday, Oct. 12th
Please see the official website about detailed information and tickets
www.grapass.net
09.09.15
This year Designersblock is at Earls Court alongside 100% design. You must register on the 100% website for free entry to both shows. Anyone not registered before the 17th of September will have to pay the full 100% design entry price of £20. Please click the link below to register with 100% Design.
Click this link to register with 100% Design
Exhibitors
44 spaces, Agnieszka Lasota, Alicia Wasielewska, Anthony Leyland, art-s-talker, Asma Hussain, Annete Taylor, Bolon, Cate&Nelson Design, Charlie Davidson, Charlie Whinney, Chris Eckersley, Design Studio Maezm, Disruptive Thinking, dotmancando, Edinburgh College of Art, Ella Doran, Ercol,Erik Griffioen, Eternal Spirits, Glasgow Caledonian University, Ha Yeon Yoo, Henry Ellis-Paul, Hyper, invest in nottingham, j-me, Joon&June, KithKin, Lyx, Matt Coombes, Max Clements, Masako Sato, Nicolas Myers, Puff&flock, Roam, Ben Rousseau, Sarah Davenport Design , S.C.N.U.K, [+0], Sophie Hedderwick, Seung Kwan No, sixinch, Tactile Wonderland, Tales of Design,,TO-DESIGN IN THE WORLD, Timorous Beasties,Thomas Thwaites, Tommaso Lanza, Unplug design, Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers, Vanessa Harden., Victor Gama, WMd, Will Carrey
Please download a PDF for a selection of works
If you’d like to show your own works to Designersblock and get involved in their projects,
please follow this link to Designersblock
Designersblock London 2009 takes place during the London Design Festival over 5000 square meters of space alongside 100% Design in Earls Court One.
24 – 27 Sep 2009
Opening times:
Thursday 24 September 10.00 – 21.00
Friday 25 September 10.00 – 19.00
Saturday 26 September 10.00 – 18.00
Sunday 27 September 11.00 – 17.00
www.verydesignersblock.com
www.100percentdesign.co.uk
Access to the event site
Also this year, Roomsroom and Living Room, the largest Japanese Fashion and Design Fair is opening its doors at Tokyo’s International Olympic Stadium.
At the three exhibition days international fashion, furniture, jewellry and product designers are showing their new collections.
A special sop in the pan are the new tracks of Japanese sound producer NOIR, who will enchant all visitors at the “Communication Party” on September 17th from 18:00 – 20:30.
For more information plesase visit the Roomsroom official website
09.07.17
CET (Central East Tokyo) is an art, design and architecture festival that has started in 2003.
The special point about this festival is, that it is NOT held in the main and fashionable areas of Central Tokyo, such as Shibuya, Omotesando, Aoyama or Harajuku!
It is held in the hidden small streets of Eastern Tokyo, areas that are quite never mentioned in travel guides called Kanda, Bakurocho, Asakusa-Bashi and Nihonbashi. There where old warehouses, old companies buildings have closed thier doors more than a decade ago. These old, almost forgotten buildings were even not worth it to take them down… rumours were heard that the landlords leave the area until everything get’s destroyed by the next big earthquake!
“Carpe Diem” might have been the right motto for young architects, gallerists and designers, who started to set up their office spaces in these buildings, with a slightly rotten look from all the rainy seasons that soiled the storefronts. The rent is economically and the noise, pollution and hot air zones don’t bother as much as in the central areas of this loved megacity.
This group of Central East Tokyo developers started the CET art and design festival in 2003 and it has continued every year since then. The changes of the area are remarkable: new galleries and cafe’s stand out in and beside old buildings. Windows of new office spaces are alight till late night. (Certainly the Japanese workaholic philosophy doesn’t stop here neither…)
This year, on July 19th from 11am to midnight, CET will discuss how this area will become in the future and what will be the role of art and the creative scene. A Tokyo ART POINT PLAN will be introduced, offices are open for the public, walks with a real estate, talks, lectures and parties are held.
The OnEdrop Cafe opens a party from 15pm – 2am.
(The concept of the cafe is (fortunately or unfortunately) not “On-E-Drops” due to the chic capitalisation as some people might believe… One Drop is meant as a metaphor for: as one drop of water can stimulate the surface of a lake, so can the ideas of a small group of people force a whole movement.)
OnEdrop Cafe
Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Iwamotmachi 2-9-11
Hiromei Building 1F
Phone: 03-5829-6822
All infos about the festival in Japanese only at
www.centraleasttokyo.com
09.07.02
Tokyo Art Beat (TAB), the smart website that guides through the jungle of Tokyo’s art & design events, exhibitions and venue places, has just published their new issue of the Tokyo Art Map for July and August 2009. Pick yours at over 400 places in the city for free or download it here
www.tokyoartbeat.com
09.06.26
2009. 06. 15
FRENCH-JAPANESE MEETING FOR MUSIC INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS.
Tokyo
From June, 22nd to 24th 2009, bureauexport is organizing the 7th edition of the French-Japanese meeting for music industry professionals.
As in the past, the aim of this meeting is to multiply contracts and partnership opportunities, to promote French-produced artists. This year ten French companies, including labels, turners, editors with various catalogs and famous artists will present their projects to hundreds of Japanese professionals on June, 22nd 2009 at the French-Japanese institute in Tokyo. Collective meetings with Japanese professionals will be organized as well as individual ones to deepen relationships and consider new French projects development in Japan. A showcase will be organized on the 24th of June at “Le Baron de Paris” with two French electro bands, Pony Pony Run Run and Poney Poney, to close the event.
09.06.12
09.06.12
The Rising Suns are a streetball team formed by international basketball players in Tokyo.
On June 27th and 28th, they wil participate and fight for goals at the Streetball World Championchip in Paris!
Come down to Smoke Bar Tokyo, Omotesando, June 14th (don’t mix it up with Bastille Day on July 14th!!).
The party starts at 10pm and will run late. Entrance ¥ 1500
Rising Suns official site
Flyer Design: Tomoki Uematsu
Smoke Bar
Tokyo
Jingumae 5-10-1,
Omotesando, Gyre 4F
nearest Stn. Harajuku (JR Yamanote),
Omotesando (Ginza and Hanzomon) and
Meijijingumae (Fukutoshin Line)
09.05.29
UP! UP! UP!
Japanese illustrator, artist and designer Utamaro Fantasista exhibits from June 02nd till July 15th at the Wall Gallery Harajuku, Tokyo, La Foret Department Store 1F.
Utamaro Fantasista will show a collection of 5 different fabrics and textile designs that can be bought directly from the gallery walls per 1m pieces in length or as much as you like and stock lasts!
Prizes are as follows:
1-3 meters: ¥ 6.000/m
3-5 meters: ¥ 5.400/m and
5 ~ meters: ¥ 4.500/m
Pin-batches in three sizes are available as well:
120 mm: ¥2,205
100mm: ¥1,890
75mm: ¥945
If you are interested to purchase Utamaro’s artworks from outside of Japan, please contact Cabaret,
if you are interested to purchase within Japan, please contact Fantasista Utamaro directly.
Please view the Cabaret Feature page for details and more works of the artist,
for Japanese please have a look at the Wall Gallery site
Artist Page: www.fantasistautamaro.com
08.12.01
Cabaret proudly presents:
Jim Avignon and Fantasista Utamaro – Mashcomix-
Berlin pop-artist icon Jim Avignon, for his first time in Japan, will battle with Tokyo Mashcomix artist Fantasista Utamaro. Speed life painted artworks will be sold in a speed auction!
Live: Jim Avignon a.k.a. Neoangin, Fantasista Utamaro / DJ: Tonio Clutch
Superdeluxe
Dec. 01. , 20:00 – 24:00h
Roppongi Tokyo B1F
www.super-deluxe.com
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