Balloon Dresses by Rie Hosokai
Remember that strange clown making you a balloon dog for your birthday? Well, Japanese artist Rie Hosokai of Daisy Balloon has taken inflated artwork a little further with a series of haute couture dresses made from balloons. The inflatable fashion collection has been created for the ‘Piece for Peace‘ charity art exhibition at Parco Gallery, … Read more
Omote 3D – World’s First 3D Photo Booth
Without doubt the development taking the creative world by storm is 3D printing and now thanks to those clever Japanese folks in trendy Shibuya, Tokyo, consumers now have the chance to enjoy it. A limited edition pop-up installation at the Eye Of Gyre Exhibition has conceived a 3D photo booth, Omote 3D which reproduces personal … Read more
Starbucks Espresso Journey Pop-Up in Tokyo
Japansese super design studio Nendo has created a Starbucks Pop-Up café in Tokyo known as the Starbucks Espresso Journey. The space, designed to look and feel like a library with bookshelves, allows visitors to learn more about Starbucks’ espresso drinks. Nine colour-coded books have been created – representing a different espresso drink – which can … Read more
Tokyo Time Lapse
The bustling forward-thinking metropolis that is Tokyo has been stunningly captured in time lapse by Masaya Sugimura. Despite this being her debut personal project, there is obviously a great deal of talent. Subtle imagery and stunning photographic moments take the viewer into the hidden depths of Tokyo, a city with so much going at all … Read more
Zhang Huan – Q Confucius
World-renowned artist Zhang Huan has opened his largest solo exhibition in China, ‘Q Confucius’ at The Rockbund Art Museum (RAM), explores the impact on art, society, and religion of China’s rapid economic, cultural, and environmental changes. The collection of entirely new work, commissioned specifically for RAM’s exhibition featuring animated large-scale sculptures, ash paintings and installations. … Read more
Remix Your City
Armed with their Fresh Push Play iPhone App, Japanese breakbeat duo, KEIZOmachine! and Juicy, aka HIFANA took to the streets of vibrant Tokyo to sample the city sounds. In order to showcase the attributes of the app, they then followed it up by an electrifying live set performed with only iPhone and iPad. A small … Read more
Seiko Mikami – Desire of Codes
Tokyo’s InterCommunication Center (ICC) is currently showing a unique interactive installation piece by Seiko Mikami, ‘Desire of Codes’. The large-scale exhibition is a complex mixture of the past and the present, fed by images from the cameras in the installation, as well as, images from surveillance cameras at public places around the world. With the … Read more
Palladium Boots & Pharrell Williams – Tokyo Rising
Palladium Boots are the hottest thing to be seen on your feet with since the £5 plimsole evasion of East London. Now, the footwear company that was originally an aviation tyre manufacturer ahead of WWII, has created five mini-documentaries with Pharrell Williams. The series sees Pharrell visit Japan’s creative capital, Tokyo, post the atrocities of … Read more
Senseless Drawing Bot: Making Graffiti Mechanical
Japanese designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi have created a modern day ‘Weird Science’ robot that instead of being the perfect woman, is a bot that creates stunning graffiti art. The Senseless Drawing Bot is definitely not as aesthetically pleasing as Kelly LeBrock’s Lisa in the cult 80s movie, but the anarchic movement from its … Read more
Lyle Owerko – The Boombox Project
Lyle Owerko is a photographer and filmmaker who has worked on a vast array of projects in his time. Most noted for his picture of the terrorist attack, Lyle’s photo was used for the cover image of Time Magazine’s September 11, 2001 issue. His current projects seek to bridge ethnic borders in a manner that … Read more
