Illustrator Fmio Watanabe was born in Nagasaki and currently lives in Tokyo, where he creates highly detailed and saturated images of towns and buildings for posters, calendars, and children’s books.
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San Francisco Series by August Table
When urban planner Cherry Chaicharn relocated from her beloved San Francisco to Hong Kong, she founded August Table, a company that creates city-centric tableware. Her first collection of dishes celebrates the neighborhoods of San Francisco, including Glen Park/Noe Valley, Castro/Mission Districts, South of Market, and North Beach.
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Amnesty International Poster by eBoy
eBoy strikes again! Remember the LA poster I wrote about a year and a half ago? Here’s the same pixel-based aesthetic, but this poster benefits Amnesty International’s Poverty Is Modern campaign.
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Historic City Map Handkerchiefs
Just in time for snot season! These handkerchiefs from MUJI are eco-friendly and educational, each featuring a historic map of NYC, Tokyo, or London. Seriously, how awesome are they?
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Enjoy Your Weekend: shop till you drop!
Annual Charley Harper Show: whether to shop or just to look, check out Fab Frames this Saturday. You’ll get a free print!
70 Years Later: Cincinnati Revisited spotlights the photography of Michael G. Smith, who has captured views identical to the Cincinnati photographs by his grandfather, Nelson RonSheim, 70 years later. Fascinating!
The Secret Bowling Alley: check out what these people found in their basement.
100 x 100: photographer Michael Wolf documented 100 100-square foot homes in Hong Kong.
Kurokawa Nakagin Capsule Hotel: Grain Edit shows us this incomparable capsule hotel in downtown Tokyo, built in 1972.
Operation NICE: Melissa Morris Ivone wants us all to be nicer to each other.
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Enjoy Your Weekend: there are tons of festivities and events going on this weekend!
Findlay Market Awarded 219k for Local Foods Project: much love for Findlay Market; congratulations!
Atrium 2 Has a Helluva View: Queen City Discovery takes a tour and gives us all a glimpse of downtown Cincinnati from above.
The City and Its Flooded Double: Studio Lindfors visualizes New York City and Tokyo after a catastrophic flood.
Commuter Cat Is Star of Bus Route: Casper the cat evades paying the fare on the bus!!!
Locals Have 4x Economic Impact over Nationals: perhaps not surprising, but good to hear.
Illustrations by Natsko Seki
Great Wheel by Natsko Seki
Like the love child of Alice Tait and Klas Fahlen, here is some work by Natsko Seki. Raised in Tokyo, educated in Brighton and currently living in London, her clients include Louis Vuitton, Bloomsbury Publishing, American Express magazine, and The Guardian. Lovely!
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“House” Home Goods by Landscape Products
Tokyo-based Landscape Products has a line of home goods in the archetypal form of the house. As I don’t read Japanese, I can’t tell you more than that, but their pine bookends are available at Design within Reach [for a pretty penny, of course].
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Elsewhere
Charley Harper at Cincinnati’s Fab Frames: my Apartment Therapy post on the work of our hometown hero.
Mason’s Art-Filled Loft: my Apartment Therapy tour of the home of Mason Paul, owner of Synthetica Gallery in Brighton.
Unofficial Cincy Design Guide: Drew of designcincinnati wrote a concise guide to some of Cincinnati’s design-focused offerings.
Guerrilla Gardener Movement Takes Root in L.A. Area: part beautification, part eco-activism, part DIY planning in Los Angeles.
Illegal Signs for Illegal Signs: in Toronto, a grassroots protest against illegal signage; I think “fight fire with fire” is an apt description.
Japanese Woman Caught Living in Man’s Closet: she slept on a mattress in the closet, took showers, and was discovered only after the man noticed that his food was disappearing.
A New Emerald Is Fashioned for Boston’s Necklace: a mixed-income community of over 500 units is being developed on the site of an old mental hospital.
