Two color tour shirts for amazing Portland, Oregon pop band 31 Knots’ 2009 European Tour.

My typeface Rubber Vloeren is now being distributed by Linotype.

I’ve been working with friend and producer Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi to create these new sweatshirts. The prototypes came in recently:

The garments are a custom cut by current Rehare fashion director/former Issey Miyake fashion director Erika Ohashi. They feature a typographic pattern that I curated and designed. The concept behind the pattern is “World Peace”. Ryo got a number of popular designers from all over the world to contribute the word “peace” in their particular written language system, which I then wove into a roll pattern. The contributing designers:

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

The sweaters will go on sale this spring, limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide for men and women. You can read more about the project here.

Supergraphic for Cafe Pause‘s 5th Anniversary, taken from the recent tea tin labels, are now up at the Cafe in Ikebukuro.

New tea tin packaging is out for Cafe Pause in Ikebukuro.

Just finished the “Tokyo Fashion & Inspiration Handbook Tokyo 2009” for Five By Fifty for Pret a Porter 2009. The Handbook includes introductions, maps and essays about five of the most inspiring places in Tokyo.

Five by Fifty has created the “Fashion & Inspiration Handbook Tokyo 2009,” which includes introductions, maps and essays about five of the most inspiring places in Tokyo. You can download a digital copy of the Handbook here.

Just launched: the freshly redesigned Rap-Up.com.

Some old typefaces are in the Type Design section now, as well.

The fine folks over at Pinball Publishing just posted an interview with me for their awesome company blog, CoinOp. Thanks, Laura!

Just completed a brand spanking new website for Nicole Fall, co-founder of urban safari company Bespoke Tokyo and trend analysis & market research agency Five By Fifty. Five by Fifty will be representing Tokyo this year at Prêt à Porter Paris.