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Mini Ceramic Fan Heater
Love the original, but this mini one is quite nice as well.
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Ceramic Fan Heater
Damn Japan and their beautiful minimal design that I can’t buy in the U.S.
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Untitled
Taken by Navid Baraty
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Original Pac-Man Sketches
As usual, the process behind design is always fascinating. “Hi Score” always cracks me up too.
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The Mothership
Taken by Jeff Laitila
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Untitled
Taken by Navid Baraty
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Untitled
Taken by Navid Baraty
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Untitled
Taken by Navid Baraty
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MUJI USA online store
Finally.
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Fruit Juice Packaging by Naoto Fukasawa
I’m sure this is cost prohibitive and probably not very environmentally friendly, but it’s still a great concept.
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A Japanese Town That Kicked the Oil Habit
Great article from TIME all about Kuzumaki and how it was able to become completely energy independent. I lived there for about a year so trust them when they say that it’s not replicable on a large scale, Kuzumaki is very rural, but it’s still fantastic. It’s disappointing when I here about falling oil prices and these projects getting shelved. We need to start developing something now so when we do need it, we’ll be ready.
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MUJI AWARD 03 Results
The stapler is my favorite but all of these are great. Straw straw!
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Kanji-o-grams?
I’m not quite sure what to call these, but I really like ‘em. When I was living in Japan I was barely able to remember any Kanji. The best I could do was to remember all the town names and a few numbers.
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Vending machine glow
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Japanese town blazes trail in clean energy
“Home to 8,000 people, Kuzumaki is lucky enough to have a territory of 400 square kilometres (154.4 square miles), an area the size of Yokohama with its 3.6 million residents.” Ah… my old home in Japan.
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Amazing floor-by-floor demolition
“Leave it to the Japanese to come up with the best way to demo a building. No muss, no fuss. It’s just brilliant. And 20% faster than the old way, which is messy, indeed.”
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Ladles
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Contemplation in Japan
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Japanese Bug Fights
These videos are like accidents on the side of the road. You want to look away, but you can’t and you don’t know why.
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ume. sakura. yay!
These shots brought me right back to Japan! Great photos as always from Sara.
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100% chocolate
Taken by hanabi
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Otaru Snow Lantern by Canal
Taken by Lee LeFever
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IMG_3434
Taken by mark
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Map and lamp
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Kuzumaki highschool, downtown, and my house
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Iwate-ken
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Kuzumaki map key
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Kuzumaki-machi
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Downtown Kuz
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Kuzumaki map
