House Industries In Tokyo!

In a rare and intimate one-night event, apparel/book/font designer, publisher, and manufacturer of design objects, Andy Cruz of House Industries will speak about his work and House’s most recent collaboration with the estate of Charles and Ray Eames.

As a partner in the cutting edge design phenomenon House Industries, Andy has helped steer the course of visual culture over the past fifteen years, creating design work with toes dipped liberally in fine art, Modern design, vernacular commercial art, and brand-oriented graphic design. See the past and the future collide and how the aesthetic of tomorrow will emerge!

Friday, September 17 2010
Doors Open: 19:00
Presentation / Q&A: 19:30 - 20:00
Dinner: 20:00

Oakwood Premier Tokyo Midtown
Address: Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
Map: Click here.
Telephone: 03-5412-3131
Fee: ¥3,500 (Advance) ¥4,500 (Door)
Includes presentation, light buffet dinner, drink, limited edition publication and limited edition print.
Language: English with Japanese Interpretation

RSVP NECESSARY
Email info@nonaca.net before Friday, Sept 10. 6pm.
Advance payment can be made here:

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Marcel the Shell

NORTHWEST PASSAGE RELEASE PARTY

NORTHWEST PASSAGE RELEASE PARTY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27th, 7PM | FREE
READING FRENZY | 921 SW OAK ST.

Celebrate the release of the Dill Pickle Club’s newest publication, Northwest Passage: 50 Years and Independent Music from the Rose City, with a short talk by the book’s editor, Marc Moscato, and the publication’s audio editor, Erin Yanke.

Northwest Passage is a book and audio CD highlighting the history of Portland’s burgeoning independent music scene, and includes contributions from: The Dill Pickle Club, Mississippi Records, Oregon Historical Music Society, PDX Pop Now!, Joe Kregal, Ural Thomas, Valerie Brown, Fred and Toody Cole, Vanessa Renwick and Erin Yanke, Calvin Johnson and Cool Nutz.

Book & CD design by Ian Lynam.

Afterward, DJ HWY 7 spins a special set of forgotten Portland classics 1950s-present, mined from his archive of local vinyl - from punk to funk and blues and deep PDX soul. This event is free, with beer donated by Ninkasi.

Snow Magazine Cafe

The SNOW Magazine Cafe is a month-long celebration of art, design, and culture magazines from around the world, on display for everyone’s reading pleasure at Cafe Pause in Tokyo.

August 1-30, 2010 — daily 12:00-23:00
(until 22:00 on Sundays)

Zines Corner

Part of the SNOW Magazine Cafe exhibition is an extensive collection of zines from around the world, kindly provided by Ian Lynam, Eyeone, and Jeremy Staples.

Lynam, a Tokyo-based art director, has had a long love affair with the zine scene — creating quite a few himself — and what he has contributed gives a good overview of the genre. Thanks to Eyeone we were able to include a fairly comprehensive collection of graffiti zines — Eyeone himself is the creator of the zine Lost. Staples, “The Bearded Hobo,” is behind the Paper Cuts Collectiveco-op, and creates the travel scrapbook zineWhenever I See a Bearded Hobo on the Street, I’ll Think of You and Smile.

Patrick Tsai: Hot Water

Tokyo-based American photographer Patrick Tsai busts out with his first solo show in Japan.

【CULTIVATE#5】
Hot Water
Patrick Tsai / パトリック・ツァイ

【開催期間】
2010年9月4日(Sat) ~ 9月26日(Sun)

土・日のみOPEN
Open Saturday and Sunday
14:00〜19:00
(平日ご覧になりたい方は、事前にメールにてご連絡ください。)

【開催場所】
CULTIVATE
〒101-0031東京都千代田区東神田1-3-5 ミツヨシビル1F
Mitsuyoshi Bldg. 1F, 1-3-5 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(P2G GALLERY内)

JR 総武線 馬喰町駅徒歩5分
JR Sobu-Line Bakurocho-Station, walk 5min.
都営新宿線 馬喰横山駅徒歩7分
Toei-Shinjuku-Line Bakuroyokoyama-Station, walk 7min.
東京メトロ 日比谷線 小伝馬町駅 徒歩10分
Tokyo-Metro Hibiya-Line Kodenmacho-Station, walk 10min.

【メール】
info@cltvt.org

【オープニングパーティー】
2010年9月4日（土）17:00〜20:00
※近隣は住宅街である為、外での大勢での談笑・喫煙などは
ご遠慮ください。

《作家プロフィール》
Patrick Tsai / パトリック・ツァイ
写真家。『Vice Magazine』や『Foam Magazine』など多くの雑誌媒体で取り上げられ、コマーシャルでは、コンバースのキャンペーン写真を手がける。写真家、Madi Juとの共作「My Little Dead Dick」シリーズをウェブ上で公開し話題を呼んだ。日本では初となるこの個展にあわせて、フォトジンを制作中。
http://www.hellopatpat.com/

TypeCon + Neuerland

I’ll be in LA for TypeCon, repping the studio, Wordshape, and Pinball Publishing next weekend. Pinball and I will be debuting our new joint project, TypeSketcher at the conference.

And while we’re on the subject of typography…

I just released a new typeface, Neuerland, an attempt to update Rudolf Koch’s traditional hand-cut display typeface, adding ligatures and alternate characters inspired by the forms of Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase’s Avant Garde.

Bangback

A delightful new print blog from Pinball! The first few posts include an awesome book report and project highlights.

Plazaar

Plazm issue #30 will feature a new indie-shop and community directory. Plazaar features small, very affordable pre-formatted ads for smaller, independent businesses. Contact us to find out whether your shop, band, service, or company qualifies. You can view sample ads and order online at www.plazm.com/plazaar

New from Edition Nord

The latest from the amazing Tokyo-based independent art publisher edition nord, a selection of work by Tadashi Kawamata.

box:198mm x 150mm / 64 cards in color / poster: b/w, 786mm x 537mm
Edition of 1000 each

Photographs and Text by Tadashi Kawamata
Selection by Shin Akiyama
Design by Shin Akiyama + Takuya Seki / schtucco
Translation by Tohru Horiguchi
Printed by Sun M Color
Printing direction by Seijiro Kori
Assembled by chiku chiku laboratory

Lesque: new Masataka video

New video from Lesque.