Good Find: Anomaly Structure
Strolling the lanes of Kyoto’s Arashiyama neighborhood, one passes a number of souvenir stores selling incense, pottery and the like. Then, there is one store that looks different from the rest, with a wooden and leather studded sign that reads “Anomaly Structure” and a bicycle parked in front. This is the atelier and shop for fashion and accessory designer Koichiro Aikawa. Actually the building interior, marked by whitewashed walls, raw wooden beams, and handmade racks is also the designer’s work as well. Like his showroom, all the items featured inside are …»
Cross Continental: Kehinde Wiley
“Traveling a lot allows me to get different perspectives on the same coin. To see a coin not only as two sides but three dimensional, even four-sided,” said artist Kehinde Wiley of his increasingly global creative process. “For example, I am going to Israel to look at what it means to be Ethiopian and Jewish at the same time. I’m going to Afghanistan to look at the Bamyan Buddhas, to look at those sculptures and recreate that on the streets of Kabul. There’s a way in which you can engage the world and engage yourself at once.” …»
ペンギンブックスにみる装丁デザインの変遷
オレンジと白のラインに、おどけた表情のペンギンのトレードマーク。洋書が好きな人なら一度は見たことのあるこのデザインは、英国生まれのブックレーベル・ペンギンブックス（Penguin books）のものだ。ペンギンブックスは、1935年、いち早く安価なペーパーバックを出版するとともに、書店だけでなく駅やタバコ屋でもそれらを販売するという、革命的なシステムを作り上げた。多くの人びとが良質な文学作品に触れるチャンスを生み出し、タバコ1箱の値段でヘミングウェイやアガサクリスティなどの名作を世に送り出したのだった …»
Matohu: How Pottery Becomes Clothes
Hiroyuki Horihata and Makiko Sekiguchi, the design duo Matohu, make some curious clothes. Their most recent collection was inspired by Oribe pottery, an eccentric style that flourished for 20 years in the 17th century and then fell out of fashion. Perhaps, it is thought, because it was a little over the top. Oribe, associated with the tea master Furuta Oribe, is characterized by bold, abstracted designs, splashes of copper-green glaze and playful shapes (resembling fans, or even people). It left an …»
