I acted as a member of the Editorial Committee for the Asia Pacific Design Awards this year and the resulting book of award winners- Asia Pacific Design VI, published by Sandu Media in China.

I was asked to pick the graphic designers whose work I felt was the best in Japan for inclusion in the awards, and thus, here they are, officially, the best of the best in a country teeming with creativity:

Artless Inc.
Ohara Daijiro
PMKFA
Shin Akiyama
so+ba
Yosuke Yamaguchi

Heartfelt congratulations to all the Award winners!

In a surprise move, the other Editorial Committee members also gave me an award, as well, so a big thank you to the other Committee members and to Sandu Media! It’s an honor.

食事や買い物を楽しむ場として観光客にも地元民にも愛される京都の新しい文化サロン、津田楼の新ウェブサイト。

New website for Tsudaro, a new cultural center, restaurant, and highlight for vacationers and locals alike in Kyoto.

Space Is The Place continues its travels through Asia and Europe as part of VISCOM- the international printing industry trade show this month with stops in Spain and Italy.

New book redesign for Microcosm out now– Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance. A D.I.Y. bike maintenance book and reprint of Chainbreaker, a bike-centric zine published in New Orleans.

Social Innovation Partnersはオレゴン州ポートランドを拠点とする社会貢献型企業。この仕事ではSIPの創立者であるエリザベス・ホフェッカー・モレーノと協議しながら、一般的な印刷物や個性的かつプロフェッショナルな、クライアント自身で管理・更新できるウェブサイトなどからなるアイデンティティを制作した。

Great new feature by Gianni Simone about expatriate self-publishing and zines in Japan in the new issue of Metropolis, where I and other zine-makers serve up our thoughts on the Japanese small press.

I made this little video series of a new lecture posted online in 3 parts by whiz kid Adam Greenfield of Do Projects and former design director at Nokia.
Called “Becoming Real”, Adam chronicles how and why certain projects fail while others succeed.
Produced by the kind folks at AQ.

フランスの音楽産業を支持する非営利団体、Bureau ExportのためのCDデザイン。フランス語と日本語で書かれた24ページの冊子が含まれている。

Nice review of the new issue of Slanted Magazine.