Archive for the ‘JAPAN’ Category

• 2011/03/11 JAPAN | 東北地方太平洋沖地震 :: 2011.03.11 posted in JAPAN tagged 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Architecture for Humanity, Earthquakes, Flags, JAPAN, Japan reconstruction efforts, logos, Tsunamis, Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin, 東北地方太平洋沖地震
• 2010/11/10 CULTURE | The Best (and Worst) of Japan :: YouTube ::: »Crazy Japanese Street Dance« posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | OSAKA-KYŌTŌ-UJI, CORPORATE IDENTITY, FASHION, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, LOGOLANDIA, MUSIC + MUSICIANS, PUBLIC ART, RETAIL DESIGN, VIDEO tagged "Japanese Economic Miracle", Daimaru Shinsaibashi Kitakan, Decline of Consumerism, Extroversion, JAPAN, Japanese Recession, Japanese Youth Culture, Osaka, Performance Art, Shinsaibashi, Street Dancers, videos, Wikimedia Commons, YouTube
• 2010/09/10 VIDEOS | Japanese Recipes :: Recommend This! ::: »Cooking with Dog« on YouTube posted in designKULTUR✭ STARS, FOOD + DRINK, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, VIDEO tagged "Cooking with Dog", cute poodles!, food shows, Francis, Hamburg Steak, Japanese cooking, Japanese food, Japanese recipes, Japanese TV shows, Maru (cat), YouTube
• 2010/09/09 ARCHITECTURE | Icons of 20th-Century Architecture :: Buildings that Sparked My Childhood Imagination posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, BRASIL, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | BRASÍLIA, CITIES | LOS ANGELES, CITIES | MONTRÉAL, CITIES | NEW YORK, CITIES | RIO DE JANEIRO, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, CITIES | VANCOUVER, designKULTUR✭ STARS, EXPO 39 | DAWN OF A NEW DAY, EXPO 67 | MAN AND HIS WORLD, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, MID-CENTURY MODERN, OLYMPIC GAMES, OSCAR NIEMEYER, UNCATEGORIZED, URBAN PLANNING tagged 20t-ce, Alvar Aalto, Arthur Erickson + Geoff Massey, Auditorium of the University of Technology, Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal Library, »Katimavik» [Canada Pavilion], Bailey House, Barcelona Pavilion, Bauhaus, Brno, Buckminster Fuller, Canada Pavilion, Casa das Canoas, Case Study House No. 21, Case Study House No. 22, Case Study House No. 8, Chandigarh Secretariat Building, Charles and Ray Eames, Eames House, Eero Saarinen, Fallingwater, Farnsworth House, Festival Plaza, Finish Pavilion, Fitzpatrick House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gateway to the West, Gerrit Rietveld, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Habitat 67, Helsinki, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Jørn Utzon, Johnson Wax Headquarters, Kaufmann Desert House, Kenzo Tange, Kramer House, Le Corbusier, Lever House, Lovell Beach House, Lovell Health House, MacMillan Bloedel Building, Man in the Community, Mies van der Rohe, Moshe Safdie, National Congress/Congreso Nacional, New York World's Fair, Norco, Notre Dame du Haut, Oscar Niemeyer, Pacific Palisades, Palace of the Dawn/Palácio da Alvorada, Palm Springs, Pierre Koenig, Racine, Richard Neutra, Rietveld Schröder House, Roderick Robbie, Ronchamp, Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Chase House [Kings Road House], Simon Fraser University, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, St. Mary's Cathedral, Stahl House, Swiss Pavilion, Sydney Opera House, Taro Okamoto, Tower of the Sun, Trans World Airlines Flight Center, USA Pavilion, Villa Savoye, Villa Tugendhat, Walter Gropius, Washington Dulles Airport, Willy Walter, Yoyogi National Gymnasium
• 2010/09/05 CITIES | TOKYO :: The City as It Appeared ca. 1960 posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, TRANSPORTATION | PRIVATE, TRANSPORTATION | PUBLIC, VIDEO tagged Tokyo 1960, Tokyo architecture
• 2010/08/30 ARCHITECTURE | West Coast Modern :: Arthur Erickson ::: Dr William + Ruth Baldwin House, Burnaby, BC posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | VANCOUVER, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, MID-CENTURY MODERN, VANCOUVERISM tagged Arthur Erickson, Burnaby heritage, Dr. William and Ruth Baldwin House, Geoff M, Japanese architectural aesthetics, kusari doi [鎖樋], Simon Fraser University, TLC The Land Conservancy, West Coast Modern
• 2010/08/01 SUMMER IN VANCOUVER | THE POWELL STREET FESTIVAL 2010 :: YEAR 34 ::: THE RETURN TO OPPENHEIMER PARK, DTES posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, LOGOLANDIA tagged "The Bulletin", Canadian Nikkei, cultural festivals, DTES, Japanese Canadian Timeline, Japanese Canadians, Nikkei, Nikkei Place, Oppenheimer Park, Powell Street Festival 2010, SPAM sushi, street festivals, Vancouver
• 2010/05/15 FOOD | «SUSHI POPPER» :: SPACE STATION GOOD? posted in ADVERTISING, CORPORATE IDENTITY, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, SPACE RACE tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apollo Program, Bill Mitchell, Gemini Program, instant food, John Glen, NASA food, Outer Space Tang, space age food, Star Trek TOS food slot, sushi, Sushi Popper, Tang
• 2010/05/15 FOOD + DESIGN | VANCOUVER :: SUSHI MART ON ROBSON STREET posted in ADVERTISING, CANADIAN DESIGN, CITIES | VANCOUVER, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, LOGOLANDIA, RETAIL DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY tagged Japanese food, Robson Street Vancouver, sushi, Sushi Mart, Sushi Poppers
• 2010/02/19 VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS | THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD :: VANCOUVER BIENNALE ::: «WE, 2008» by JAUME PLENSA posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | VANCOUVER, EXHIBITIONS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, PUBLIC ART, THE VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS SUITE tagged "We 2008", 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Cultural Olympiad, Great Buddha (大仏 daibutsu), Jaume Plensa, Kamakura Buddha, Kōtoku-in, Vancouver Biennale
• 2010/02/14 HAPPY NEW YEAR! | 快樂新年! | 2010.02.14! posted in ART + ARTISTS, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, STAMPS + MONEY, TYPOGRAPHY tagged Canada Post, Canadian designers, Chinese New Year, Eizan, Japanese art, STAMPS + MONEY, Year of the Tiger 2010, 快樂新年
• 2010/01/14 THE EXPO 70 SUITE | 10 :: Leandro V. Locsin + The Philippines @ Expo 70, Osaka posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, BOOK DESIGN, BOOKS, CITIES | OSAKA-KYŌTŌ-UJI, CORPORATE IDENTITY, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, GRAPHIC ARTS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, JAPAN, OLYMPIC GAMES, STAMPS + MONEY, THE PHILIPPINES, URBAN PLANNING tagged "Poet of Space", a, Arthur Erickson, Aurora Pijuan, Canadian pavilion at Expo 70, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Filipino architecture, Leandro V. Locsin, Miss International 1979, Philippines, Philippines pavilion at Expo 70, Vatican City stamps, visions of the future
• 2010/01/13 SEEN | @ A TEMPLE FLEA MARKET IN OSAKA posted in CITIES | OSAKA-KYŌTŌ-UJI, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, SEEN IN …, TRAVEL tagged antique Japanese keys, JAPAN, Japanese chestnuts, Japanese dolls, kewpie dolls, kimonos, Osaka, pagodas, temple flea markets
• 2010/01/13 FOUND | A PROTO-PICTOGRAM @ A BUDDHIST TEMPLE FLEA MARKET posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, CORPORATE IDENTITY, GRAPHIC ARTS, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, LOGOLANDIA, OLYMPIC GAMES, TYPOGRAPHY tagged 1964 TOKYO SUMMER OLYMPICS, 2012 LONDON SUMMER OLYMPICS, BC Ferries, Kizu Upper Secondary School, logo, Masaru Katzumie, Olympic Games, Pictogram, pictograms, Portable Network Graphics, Prefectures, Tokyo, Tokyo Olympics, Yoshiro Yamashita
• 2010/01/01 HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2010! posted in ART + ARTISTS, JAPAN, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC tagged 2010, 543, Japanese New Year, Meiji jiingu, Meiji Shrine, nengajō, New Year, The Loft
• 2009/11/28 ISAMU NOGUCHI, KENZO TANGE, AND THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM IN JAPAN posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, ART + ARTISTS, CITIES, JAPAN, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, PUBLIC ART, URBAN PLANNING tagged CITIES | HIROSHIMA, Isamu Noguchi, JAPAN, Kenzo Tange, modernism
• 2009/11/28 ARCHITECTS | 丹下健三 Kenzo Tange :: The Japanese Maestro + The Tokyo Olympics posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | OSAKA-KYŌTŌ-UJI, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, EXPO 70 | PROGRESS AND HARMONY FOR MANKIND, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC, URBAN PLANNING tagged 1964 Summer Olympics, JAPAN, Kenzo Tange, Meiji Shrine, Olympic, Olympic Games, Tokyo
• 2009/11/28 ARCHITECTS | THE VIEW FROM KENZO TANGE’S AKASAKA PRINCE HOTEL (1982) posted in ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, CITIES | TŌKYŌ, JAPAN | JAPANESE ARCHITECTS + ARCHITECTURE, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, JAPAN | THE BEST + WORST OF JAPAN, JAPAN | THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC tagged 1962, Asakasa Prince Hotel, Kenzo Tange, Tange Kenzo
• 2009/11/27 SEEN | NOGUCHI BAMBOO BASKET CHAIR LIMITED EDITION posted in ART + ARTISTS, CITIES | NEW YORK, INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN, SEEN IN … tagged Bamboo Basket Chair Limited Edition, Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi Museum
• 2009/11/27 DECODING GOOGLE’S NOGUCHI’S BIRTHDAY DOODLE posted in ART + ARTISTS, JAPAN | JAPANESE DESIGN tagged Akari, Google doodle, Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi tables