My essay “With A Spatula in Her Hand” was just published on the website for Modes of Criticism, a new design criticism magazine. I will have another essay in the inaugural print issue, out soon.

I have a piece of writing on the proposed logo for the Olympics in Tokyo in the latest issue of Slanted, out now.

Also, an interview I did five years ago or so with type designer Akira Kobayashi for the late PingMag is up over at Type Is Beautiful, translated into Chinese.

I have a new essay up on Néojaponisme called “Candid Thoughts on the 2020 Olympic Logo”.

I did a lecture at Temple University Japan in Amanda Kaiser’s Journalism class on the use of video in editorial contexts. Fun stuff! The above slide was a cautionary notice for thinking about video and sound in the Japanese urban environment.

The Doodle 4 Google event we designed went off surprisingly well!

40 happy kids won awards for their visions of the world 100 years from now.

The kids filing in…

Getting briefed prior…

and winning stuff!

Thanks so much to the kids, the amazing folks at Google and all of our friends who helped support this initiative!

In non- Google news, I’ve been given the honor of judging this year’s Typodarium along with type design & lettering legend Ed Benguiat, wünderkind Lucas de Groot, designer Boris Kochan and type design extraordinaire Veronika Burian.

Also, an interview I did five years ago or so with type designer Akira Kobayashi for the late PingMag is up over at Type Is Beautiful, translated into Chinese.

We have created the full experience (set design, stage design, animations, lighting design, print design and sound design) for Google’s Doodle 4 Google event in Tokyo, happening on Sunday December 2. Check it out on Google+ here!

I have a piece of writing in the latest issue of Slanted, out now.

We also did a bit of custom font work for the lovely folks at Mistress this month.

Bilingual website & localized identity for the Japanese division of Ologe Acoustic, manufacturer of high end speakers, cabinets and amplifiers for the discerning audiophile.

There are more than five hundred public Japanese gardens outside Japan, in more than one hundred countries and regions in 5 continents. We collaborated with Tokyo NODAI‘s (National University of Agriculture) Center for International Japanese Garden Studies to create this website in order to encourage people around the world to learn about and experience the beauty and culture of Japanese gardens.

The CIJGS website aggregates hundreds of Japanese gardens from around the world, each listing being accompanied by bilingual text, imagery and location data. The site is constantly being added to. See it here.