A “bento” in Japan is a pre-made lunch you bring with you at school, work or trip. It’s sort of a box with a complete meal, including sushi or meat, rice, noodles, veggies, dessert etc. As usual, Japanese don’t miss the occasion to be creative in their traditional kawaii way. Take a look at these [...]

Some very cool japanese barcodes, designed by japanese firm D-Barcode, specialized in these unique design works.

This set of stereoscopic pictures were taken by the industrious and artistic Enami, the Japan’s greatest and most prolific stereo-photographer. Most of the photos were taken between 1895 and 1910, during the Meiji, Taisho, and early years of the Showa era. He died in 1929. The stereoview consists in a pair of nearly identical images [...]

There’s a new name in my “Favourite artists” list: Tadaomi Shibuya, 36 years old from Yokohama, Japan. Tadaomi is an artist, an illustrator and a graphic designer and you can recognize his style in all these disciplines at first sight. He uses geometric pattern to make portraits of people, animals or to create amazing abstract [...]

Used to italian city emblems, usually coming from an heraldic heritage, we’re astonished in front of these japanese municipality logos, that seem to come from Star Trek or WipeOut.

Amazing illustrations from Shohei Otomo aka Hakuchi, japanese artist. In his illustrations, Otomo, adds the taste for the traditional japanese art with manga and noir, with a modern and distinguishing style.

For the 30th birthday of  Gundam robot a real size statue has taken place in Odaiba, Tokyo. The statue will remain for 2 months, untile it will be placed in a secret (by now) location.

Yuken Teruya manipulates daily life objects changing their meaning. He cuts out trees from a paper bag or a cardboard pipe, he creates really tangled artworks, beautiful enchanting worlds.