Tomo -- The Tofu Project's creative director -- is also an occasional clothing designer. He just designed this shirt jacket for SF-based indie clothing label Betabrand called the "Saito Shirt Jacket" and made this silly Christmas-themed promo video for it. I don't know if I want Saito Claus to show up in my chimney but the shirt is cool!
You can buy it here.
While I was in Tokyo last week, Uniqlo launched their Save Japan campaign. Together with Conde Nast Japan, they got all these celebrities to design black and white (and sometimes a little bit of color) t-shirts. I think this is the Lady Gaga one. Others include Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Karl Lagerfeld, and Orlando Bloom. So fancy pants!
You can buy them at any Uniqlo store for $20 each.
At the Kinokuniya bookstore the other day, I started flipping through a slightly porny (and in later pages, very much more porny) photography book featuring hot Japanese girls posing amidst lots and lots of gadgets. There's one more after the jump, of a girl with a fuzzy hat in a room full of vintage game consoles.
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Kosai Sekine, who directed the lovely short film I posted four years ago about the obsessive compulsive convenience store employee, made this awesome ad for Adidas about a guy who runs a break-up service.
Nick Bilton over at the NY Times reports on a strange new fashion trend that started in Harajuku: LED lights that you can wear over your teeth. They change colors, flash to beats, and generally just look kinda crazy and cool. There's also a video of a bunch of women walking down the streets sporting these if you follow the link below.
via NY Times
In 2008, Chronicle published my book: Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.
I am also the founder of The Tofu Project, a boutique program that helps Japanese entrepreneurs and creators think deeper, tell better stories, and go out into the world in a much bigger way. We work with companies like Mixi, Japan Airlines, and Salesforce.com.
Sometimes I try to explain Japanese culture on CNN, BBC, CBC, WSJ, ABC (so many acronyms!) or in person at places like the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, ETech, and Ignite!
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