The Japanese brand “Alive Athletics” is gonna create their new collection on the Icon watch with LRG. It features a white face, gold case, and brown leather band, coming in this summer. You can't miss it.
Rotterdam designer Susan Bijl's colorful tote bags.
They make the trip to the supermarket or department store (or wherever) more eco-friendly and more fashionable.
Starting May 15, Gap is celebrating their sponsorship of the 2008 Whitney Biennial with the launch of their first-ever Artist Edition T-Shirt series. This extremely limited edition collection is designed by 13 previous Biennial participants and some of today's most influential artists: Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kerry James Marshall, Hanna Liden and Sarah Sze.
SCR released a new screensaver. DROPCLOCK is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy Helvetica dropping into water in super slow-motion.
Dove Evolution, a commercial film, is now only available on the YouTube. It's very impressive film and also has a big suggestion for you to have a suspicious eye to beauty in advertising. This film won various prizes this year in advertising industry all over the world.
The Clipse got to be interviewd by inqmnd™. It's been 5 year since the Virginia Beach rap duo Clipse released their debut album Load Willin, and since then it's been Hell. (text: inqmnd™ )
Brent Rollins is know as a member of Ego Trip, which is a hip-hop magazine by talented designers, Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Chairman Mao, Gabriel Alvarez & Brent Rollins. One of his famous artworks for Hip-Hop nuts is a cover design of Black Star's album in 1998. Now his archive is available in Inquiringmind™ Magazine, please check it out his talent of art & design.
The all-new, all-in-one iMac packs a complete, high-performance computer into a beautifully thin design. Available in 20- and 24-inch widescreen models.
(text from apple.com/imac)
A new article on “Inquiring Mind magazine” can be read now. It is about interview to Marcus Ericsson; creative director of jumpman23.com. You may be able to find his various talents in it.
A online magazine company "Inquiring Mind" based in Toronto hooked up with the lead design director for Jordan Brand, Chicago native "Gemo Wong" and as usual has put out a beautiful feature with rich information that is definitely worth the read.
トロントに拠点を置くウェブマガジン会社「Inquiring Mind 」がジョーダンブランド・チーフ・デザインディレクターの中国系アメリカ人であるGemo Wong氏（シカゴ出身）を特集。いつものように素晴らしい内容に仕上がっています。読む価値アリ。
The creative team "Non-Format" basically working in London is famous for various designs in fashion, def culture and so on. This work-book "Love Song", released in June 2007, contains their masterpieces which they had generated with many clients in Ad industry. This is one of the marvelous books I have ever seen. You can miss it.
I fortunately happened to find the name of a designer who have designed the art work of "Lupe Fiasco / Food & Liquor". His name is Chuck Anderson a.k.a. NOPATTERN. He has been freelacing since 2004, when he was 18. He've had many great clients such as Nike, Microsoft, ESPN Magazine, Reebok, Def Jam, Warner Bros. Records, ...etc.
This is the showcase & portfolio of Andreas Wannerstedt, Swedish graphic designer, who designed the "DIDDY.COM". You can see his various freelance projects here.
Andreas Wannerstedt氏によるポートフォリオサイト。あの「DIDDY.COM」をデザインしたスウェーデンのデザイナー。彼がフリーランスのデザイナーとして関わったプロジェクトが公開されています。
To celebrate the newly opened Jordan flagship store in Shanghai, China on June 1st, Nike released the AJ1 XQ exclusively in China with limited release of 240 pairs. XQ stands for “Xi Qing” in Chinese, which means “Happiness and Celebration”. Its design is absolutely bad for footwear nuts !!
Nike features 4 pro-skaters on Nike skateboading custom series in Brazil. The cool web site “Nike SB Brazil” got launched. These line-ups are made in Brazil and sold only in Brazil.
To see Juelz Santana (Hip-Hop artist) on UNIQLO advertisement is really surprising. It seems the visual image for UNIQLO brand in NY leads itself to a new next level.
This is the new web site of Joshua Stearns. In this web site, the portfolio of Joshua Stearns (designer / photographer) can be seen with very cool flash design. Its quality is absolutely great, so you can see his artworks instinctively without any stress.
Boogie - a documentary photographer born in Serbia and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. His photo exhibition is gonna be held at "ESPACE 218" in L'ECLAIREUR, Aoyama, Tokyo for the first time during 28th April - 6th May 2007.
This is a great web magazine for graphic design, which I often look to draw some images when I move into the darkness in my brain, thinking new illustarion images.
I got a great book, “ADVERTISING NOW. PRINT” , featuring advertising all over the world. You can enjoy the world's sharpest creative minds in high demand in the advertising world.
W+K Tokyo Lab, is a new music label concept launched by Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo in 2003. The Short film featuring W+K Tokyo Lab is launched on Apple computer's web site now. You can see how they keep their unique originality and its motivation they feel in the city of Tokyo. I never fail to keep my eyes on this label.
I'm not sure the reason my cell phone (NTT Docomo; P900i)'s battery deadly goes down is that I hadn't turned the power on during my stay abroad. Because of that, I finally changed it to a new one, which is first time in last three years. Now people in Japan are eager to get a new series, 903 series, but SH902is, one of previous line-ups, attracted me so much, so I took one. A few days ago, I belatedly made my debut on 902 series.
Microsoft brings a new digital audio device "Zune" on Nov.14th, which will be in rivalry with iPod(Apple), into the digital music industry almost monopolized by Apple in a respect of delivering music on line. At the same time, they also release a new on-line music store "Zune Marketplace", which is in rivalry with iTune Music Store(Apple). How will their share be changed in the future?
ついにマイクロソフトが「iPod（Apple）」に対抗するデジタルオーディオ機器「Zune」を今月14日にも投入するとのこと。と同時にiTunes Music Store（iTMS）対抗の音楽オンラインストア「Zune Marketplace」も立ち上げるという。今後どうなるんでしょう…。
This commercial directed by Cristopher Desantis is the spec commercial of "iTalk" cell phone by Apple Computer. I'm really looking forward to getting this one realizable. Please press PLAY button to check out the above commercial.
The movie, A Scanner Darkly (Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, 2006: Warner Independent Pictures), is now playing. In this movie, you can see the special effect 'Rotoscoping', which is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame. This movie must be unavoidable to check. Incidentally, the official web site of this movie got FWA award, Site of The Day.
映画「A Scanner Darkly」(Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, 2006: Warner Independent Pictures) が現在、米国にて公開されている。この映画は、実際のモーションをフレーム毎にトレースした「ロトスコープ」という特殊なアニメーション効果によって構成されている。チェックしない手はないでしょう。ちなみに、オフィシャルサイトは『FWA: Site f The Day』受賞。
Let me introduce a familiar web site I found while looking for hotels for my NY stay. It is a little rare in terms of web sites of hotel all designed with Full-Flash. It is one of the great web sites introducing details of the hotel exhaustively with its rhythmical tempo of scrolling pages, making people feel unstressed, and they seem to succeed in getting people to feel a kind of modern NY style by its BGM of Jazz Crossover.
New Yorkでの滞在先ホテルを探している途中に見つけた懐かしいサイトを紹介。ホテルのウェブサイトではめずらしいフル・フラッシュサイト。ユーザーにストレスを感じさせないリズム感で、そのホテルの素晴らしさを余す所なく紹介している素晴らしいサイトの１つだと思う。また、BGMのジャズ・クロスオーバーによって、そのモダンなNYスタイルを演出している。
Nikon announced the release date of brand new Digital SLR Camera 'D80' featuring a 10.2 effective megapixel Nikon DX Format CCD image sensor is
Sep.9, 2006. I think, on account of its price set almost equal to D70s and its specification bearing comparison with D200, it looks worth getting this new one.
Mac Pro introduces the 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processor running up to 3.0GHz to the Mac lineup. Mac Pro delivers a new system architecture up to twise the performance of the Power Mac G5 Quad. Moreover, Mac Pro seems to let you build your personal dream machine with more than 4.9 million possible configurations for meeting the needs of high qualities and advanced performance.
デュアルコアIntel Xeon"Woodcresr"プロセッサ（最大3GHz）搭載Mac Proがついに登場。従来のPower Mac G5 Quadと比べて最大２倍の速度で動作すると同時に、その高い性能や拡張性のニーズに対応すべく、490万種類以上のカスタマイゼーションが可能な構成をとっている模様。
Suggested Conditions:
- Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon "Woodcrest" processors
- 4MB shared L2 cache per processor
- 1.33GHz dual independent frontside buses
- 1GB memory (667MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics with 256MB memory
- 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
- 16x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
I purchased a "Adidas : G6 / Staten Island", one of NYC series of adicolor. This one is totally designed by Bill McMullen, who are a graphic artist. Its design stands for Staten Island, which is located in the south of Manhattan. The green color seems to be suited perfectly to this pack not only with the nature of the borough but the Island's nearby and world famous Statue of Liberty.
Graphic artist Bill McMullen hails from San Diego, California. After moving to New York, Bill began working with Def Jam art department subsidiary, The Drawing Board. While there he worked with the founders Cey Adams and Steve Carr producing artwork for some of the biggest names in rap music.
Bill left The Drawing Board to pursue new creative endeavours such as the SwishNYC clothing label and his own, unique graphic-art piecies such as the Superstar/Star Wars inspired AD-AT and his more recent 'One Million' project.
Bill has collaborated with adidas to create a Foot Locker exclusive palette that represents one of the greatest cites on earth: New York.
Wireless Mighty Mouse(Apple Computer, Inc.) is on sale. In addition to the function of last one, with Bluetooth technology, the Mighty Mouse has gone wireless and you can take that 360-degree scrolling design with you. However, I hesitate to buy one on account of its neccessity for charging with either one or two AA batteries.
The Distillery District, which is a national histric site now, founded in 1832 to distill alcohol, is the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian Industrial Architecture in North America. Nowadays, The Distillery District has become one of the most romantic and enjoyable destination in Toronto. You can see the brick lined streets which will make you feel being in Europe in The Distillery District. The Distillery District also has various views of creative thinking and expression, so that is the reason various kinds of art, like galleries, artists, theatres, restaurants, cafes and retailes, are there.
The Distillery Districtはもともと1832年に建設された蒸留所であり、その跡地を利用して建設された歴史地区となっている。その規模は北米一で、今でもなお様々なビクトリア調建築を保存している。現在では、The Distillery Districtはトロント市内では最もロマンチックで楽しむ事のできる地区として位置づけられ、中を歩けばレンガ畳みの通りによってさもヨーロッパにいる感覚さえ覚えさせる。またこの地区はクリエイティブへの理解があり、様々なアート・スタイル（ギャラリー、アーティスト、シアター、レストラン、カフェ、ショップ）を堪能することができる。
There are many kinds of products and marchandise I like very much in this retail shop. All of them are designed by remarkable designers, so there are many goods you can't probably get at any other shops.
I purchased the MoMA Ball Clock at National Gallery of Canada / Musee des beaux-arts du Canada in Ottawa City a few days ago. It has a dial
which is smaller than one you might think inside the glassball. That is how this dial is magnified enough to be seen in proper size. This clock has been deeply fascinating me by its simple appearance since I had had first sight of it.
Now you can see brand new advertising of apple.ca here. I feel like seeing the strategy for the Microsoft's participation in the music industry after watching the deeply interesting advertising of apple
A man who was painting advertising of apple on the wall of a shop. I found easily that that was the same way to paint ad. on the wall as what I had seen how to do that before in Tokyo.
Though I had said that something were lacked, I was pretty surprised to see students attitude to "CI - Corporate Identity". That of them who were majoring in graphic design was achived in very high level. I'm sure it was the consequece that the students were taught, and was really surprised to see many books, for each student, about the design of CI. Anyway, looking back this exhibition, I couldn't help feeling a kind of anxiety about the school system that the difference of quality between a course and the others looked so obvious.
OCAD Graduate Exhibition is door-open during May.5th-7th at Ontario College of Art & Design. You can see various kinds of art, which are drawing and painting, photography, sculpture/installation, ceramics, printmaking, jewellery, textiles, integrated media, advertising, illustration, graphic design, industrial design, and environmental design. Seeing these art works, I found that they were lacking in something or other and that quality of japanese design was higher and more sophisticated in every case (concepts, quality, composition...etc.). Simultaneously, it occured to me that, a graphic designer here saying to me before, japanese design has very high quality and originality.
Regrettably, taking pictures was prohibited in the school. To be continued...
Ontario College of Art & Design にて5/5〜7の日程で卒業作品展が一般公開されている。様々なジャンル（造形、ファッション、グラフィック、写真、映像等）の作品を見ることができるわけだが、作品全体を通して感じた印象としては「何か物足りない…」。コンセプト、クオリティ、構成と言った全ての面において、日本のデザインレベルの方が高い次元で実現されているように思える。同時に、以前こちらのグラフィックデザイナーが、日本のクオリティの高さについて賛美していたことをつい思い出した。
残念なことに会場内は全て撮影禁止でした。続きはまた後日… 。
You can see a design school named "The Ontario College of Art & Design" on a street across the Queen St. There are many institutions associated with the college on the street, so you will see "Design" is a part of their life in Toronto.
The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) is Canada’s largest university for art and design, specializing in creativity and innovation. Established in 1876, the university has more depth and breadth in visual arts and design programs than any school of its kind in Canada. Works of OCAD graduates continues to enrich our country’s culture and add value to the economy and everyday lives of Canadians.
クイーン・ストリートを横切る通りにあるデザインスクール「The Ontario College of Art & Design」。通りには、この学校に関連した施設が多数あり、デザインというカルチャーが生活の一部と化していることがわかる。
「Ontario College of Art & Design」は1876年に設立された、カナダ最大のアート、デザインを専攻とした大学であり、カナダにおける同様の教育機関に比べ、ビジュアル・アート、デザインプログラムをより深く学ぶことが出来る。卒業生達の作品はカナダの文化を豊かにし、さらにはカナダの経済、そして毎日の生活にまで価値を与えているようである。
