Little Bird, the fledgling sister restaurant to Le Pigeon, Portland, Oregon’s crown prince of restaurants, opens next month. We’ve been furiously working away creating a bespoke, yet related identity system for the restaurant including menus, signage, @font-face-powered website, business cards, and a ton of surprises.

Little Bird opens on December 8- same day as my birthday. Couldn’t get a nicer gift!

Out now: Slanted Magazine #12– a whole issue of the Berlin-based design magazine dedicated to Women, Typography and Graphic Design.

For this issue, I contributed my second essay installment toward understanding Japanese typography, as well as interviews with Susanna Baer of so+ba and Akiko Kanna, two of the most talented graphic designers working in Japan today.

New kisekae mobile device theme for W+K TokyoLab available now for your phone. Just navigate here using your phone to download.

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.