One more Pecha Kucha Night presentation down! Lots of free designed goods distributed to the people. Mega-thanks to Hisae for the awesomest co-presenting!

Hisae and I will be presenting the Year In Review- a bilingual roundup of project highlights, as well as giving away a grip of free stuff, at Pecha Kucha Night on Wednesday in Tokyo.

I acted as a member of the Editorial Committee for the Asia Pacific Design Awards this year and the resulting book of award winners- Asia Pacific Design VI, published by Sandu Media in China.

I was asked to pick the graphic designers whose work I felt was the best in Japan for inclusion in the awards, and thus, here they are, officially, the best of the best in a country teeming with creativity:

Artless Inc.
Ohara Daijiro
PMKFA
Shin Akiyama
so+ba
Yosuke Yamaguchi

Heartfelt congratulations to all the Award winners!

In a surprise move, the other Editorial Committee members also gave me an award, as well, so a big thank you to the other Committee members and to Sandu Media! It’s an honor.

New website for Tsudaro, a new cultural center, restaurant, and highlight for vacationers and locals alike in Kyoto.

New website for Tsudaro, a new cultural center, restaurant, and highlight for vacationers and locals alike in Kyoto.

Space Is The Place continues its travels through Asia and Europe as part of VISCOM- the international printing industry trade show this month with stops in Spain and Italy.

New book redesign for Microcosm out now– Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance. A D.I.Y. bike maintenance book and reprint of Chainbreaker, a bike-centric zine published in New Orleans.

Social Innovation Partners is a social-profit enterprise based in Portland, Oregon. We worked with SIP’s founder Elizabeth Hoffecker Moreno to create their business identity, including traditional print materials and a unique and professional web presence that is client editable.

Great new feature by Gianni Simone about expatriate self-publishing and zines in Japan in the new issue of Metropolis, where I and other zine-makers serve up our thoughts on the Japanese small press.

I made this little video series of a new lecture posted online in 3 parts by whiz kid Adam Greenfield of Do Projects and former design director at Nokia.
Called “Becoming Real”, Adam chronicles how and why certain projects fail while others succeed.
Produced by the kind folks at AQ.