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.

I have some work in the latest issue of RRR.

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.

PechaKucha Night Tokyo X Tokyo Design Week just finished up a few days ago – one of the biggest PechaKucha events ever! 1,000 folks hanging out and listening to presentations by designers from all over the world.

For us, one of the most exciting things was seeing our logo design for PechaKucha Night projected h-u-u-u-u-ge across the interior of a geodesic dome.

R. Buckminster Fuller is one of our heroes and the geodesic dome one of the most appealing structures in architecture, so to have our design applied to one, even a temporary one, was fantasic.

Photos by the amazing Michael Holmes Photo.

I designed a new “wire” variant on the YACHT logo for Jona and Claire today for the band’s tenth anniversary, oddly enough occuring on my 40th birthday. Flyer below not by me.

Our new ad campaign for NASA and The Washington County Museum launched this month. Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe opens on November 17.

We’ve been knee deep in a fair amount of identity work lately, as well. We crafted up a logo and identity system for Michael Holmes Photo of Tokyo.

Just finished, as well, is the identity and environmental design for Le Comptoir Occitan, a new Basque restaurant in Daikanyama within Hillside Terrace. More photos coming soon.

I won an Asia Pacific Design Award again. Whoo! And I didn’t even pick myself!

Some exciting news: I am joining the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaching in their MFA graphic design program as of October. The university is a low-residency program and I’ll be teaching both in Vermont and from home base in Tokyo.

Japanese Graphic Design: Not in Production, a new piece of design criticism I wrote has been posted at Néojaponisme. It will be followed by six supplementary posts showing the best that Japanese contemporary graphic design has to offer.