Two new websites that the studio designed launched today:

The updated website for Five By Fifty, Tokyo’s top innovation consultancy.

A brand-new website incorporating updated branding for Bespoke Tokyo, Japan’s only Urban Safari company.

Website for Bespoke Tokyo, Tokyo’s only urban safari guide service. Bespoke Tokyo is the best way for visitors and businesses to connect with the pulse of modern Japan. BT representatives accompany clients on tailor-made safaris within Tokyo and across Japan to create experiences that are unique and valuable. Bespoke Tokyo also consult on corporate events and arrange international media visits. Customers gain access to intimate knowledge of rapidly changing Japan, from the latest consumer trends and hot new restaurants to little known getaways and valuable personal contacts.

I’ll be debuting and giving away installment #3 of my Poster Initiative offset-printed poster series at Super Deluxe this Wednesday during my Pecha Kucha Night presentation. The posters are produced in editions of 1,000 and distributed around Tokyo. Not advertising- just free design for the people.

I’ll be doing a glib presentation on the “The Year in Review”- a look back over highlight projects for my design studio in 2009.

at SuperDeluxe
1000yen /1 drink
B1F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031
+81 (0)3-5412-0515
http://www.super-deluxe.com

Installment #3 in my self-initiated offset-printed poster series. The posters are produced in editions of 1,000 and distributed around Tokyo.

A project that was killed at the printer for a good reason: the City of Portland pulled the plug on its utterly unneeded mega-bridge citing “political and economic opposition”. The screen was being burned at Microcosm for the shirts when the word came down. Not a bad thing by any means.

I have the dubious honor of being the very first Pecha Kucha Night presenter to have a presentation presented online at PKN’s new Presentations section of their website, designed by UltraSuperNew. You can listen to me sputter, babble, and throw out half-truths here, as recorded 2+ years ago.

Final apparel design for Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi’s Peace Sweater project will debut at Design Tide 2009 in Tokyo next week. You can see the final products in the Apparel section.

Apparel design for Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi’s Peace Sweater project. I created a typographic pattern from elements created by typographers from different cultures, including:

• Stefan Sagmeister – Latin
• Ahn Song-Soo – Hangul
• Oded Ezer – Hebrew
• Dainippon Type Organization – Japanese
• Alexander Gelman – Russian
• Behrouz Hairiri – Farsi
• Da Wang – Chinese

The shirts were produced in four different colors in an edition of 1,000 each with cuts for men and women designed by Erika Ohashi.

A look at the script lettering of Miura Kōhei (三浦滉平).

A look at an outstanding piece of contemporary Japanese graphic design.