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Architecture, Crafts, Fashion, Interior design, Places

Naoto Fukasawa converts 132-year-old Kyoto townhouse into a Issey Miyake store

Naoto Fukasawa to me is like the Dieter Rams to many designers. He is behind many of the internationally beloved MUJI products and author of Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary. Him and Kenya Hara both spend a lot of time thinking about how they could scale their success to...

Crafts, Fashion

The Tsuchiya School Bag

In Japan it is still quite common to wear uniforms to school. Just like the uniform the school bag is usually a specific type called “Randoseru”. Until recently it was the norm for all boys to have a randoseru in black and for girls in red. My mother had a...