We’ve undertaken an exciting new project with our pal Jared Braiterman PhD of Tokyo Green Space that catalogs over 500 Japanese gardens outside of Japan for Nodai, the Tokyo University of Agriculture.

We’re really excited to be working with Jared. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Tokyo University. Jared is a Harvard and Stanford trained design anthropologist who has worked in university education, start-up consulting, social media, and urban planning in Japan, the Americas, and Europe.

Open Skateboards has a few team decks out now on sale.

I’ll be presenting tonight at the Magazine Library special edition of PechaKucha Night in Daikanyama. The topic: A Dozen Publications That Changed My Life.

We’ve relaunched our web journal Néojaponisme with @font-face integration, a bespoke mobile theme and enhanced readability for easy reading.

We’ve relaunched our web journal Néojaponisme with @font-face integration, a bespoke mobile theme and enhanced readability.

Cameron McKean and I did a lengthy cross interview for the latest issue of 360 magazine from China- out soon.

A pair of custom whisky labels designed for Whisk-e using custom patterns, fluorescent Pantones and our house typefaces.

I wrote the foreword for a new book titled Type Player 2 published in the Americas by Gingko Press and in Asia by Sandu Media.

I co-edited and contributed a few essays to Idea Magazine‘s new feature about New Wave/PostPunk independent publications.

One is called “Dot Gain” and is an introduction to independent publications in the late 70s and the early 80s.

The second is a hybrid essay/interview with WET magazine founder Leonard Koren about WET and his life and times.

Special thanks to Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein for their assistance in researching the essay!

We put up a small mobile-friendly site redesign for our pals Upswell in Portland recently.