2016 Designer New Year’s Cards
Each year Spoon & Tamago selects a handful of its favourite "nengajo," or New Year’s cards, created by Japanese designers, illustrators and other creatives.
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Blue’s: A Cool Magazine About Construction
Blue's Magazine is self-billed as a construction culture magazine focused on the lives, philosophies and unique culture of Japanese construction workers—and how cool they really are!
Japanese Cedar Stacking Blocks by Kengo Kuma
Architect Kengo Kuma, who was recently in the news for being selected to build Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium, has taken the fact that a triangle is the strongest geometric shape, and rendered it into a playful and interactive interior design building set.
The Secrets in Japan's 2016 New Year's Cards
Can you spot the tiny crustaceans in this image? What else are Japan Post's 2016 "nengajo" hiding?
Tokyo’s New Olympic Stadium Design Revealed
Architect Kengo Kuma's design is a marriage of wood and forestry, incorporating the surrounding trees of Jingu Shrine to create a stadium of wood and greenery.
An Algorithmic House in Saitama
This beautiful house looks like a maze!
Tokyo Type Project
Away from the big streets you'll find that Japan suffers a dearth of clear signage. In part of the effort to rectify the situation, designer Yoshiaki Irobe has developed “Tokyo CityFont,” a typeface just for the nation's greatest metropolis.
360° Book Lets You Own Mount Fuji
When designer Yusuke Ono submitted his 3-D book idea to the YouFab design contest in 2012, it was too labor intensive to be produced for sale. Not anymore.
