Busy, busy, buzz, buzz
Phew, it seems like I can finally take a breather after a hectic few weeks.
Toshi and Hannah departed Japan lugging loads of new purchases back to London. It was really great having them stay with us. Funny how we could just carry on so easily, especially as we haven't seen each other for nearly two years. Such lovely people (although they seem to have got Miyu back on the smokes again!) Toshi fell in love with a t-shirt shop which is located just five minutes walk from our house, called DESIGN TSHIRTS STORE GRANIPH, which have some awesome designs on various types of Ts, and which are updated regularly. The price is right too, with one going for 2,100 Yen (15 GBP) and then getting progressively cheaper if you buy more than one. It's such a great idea - people send the company their designs and if they like it they produce and sell it, giving the designer dosh for their design. This means that with unquenchable thirst for new things, the shop fits in perfectly to meet this need. Plus the designs are very cool!
Talking of design, Tokyo Design Week has been taking part here. The place has been swarming with designers from all over the world, who have come to display their wares and to network like crazy. Miyu and I attended an interesting event last week, being run in as part of Design Week, called PECHA KUCHA (meaning chit chat in Japanese). Basically, it's a night of intense presentations, given by anybody that wants to share their latest ideas with a rapt audience. Most are about design, but occasionally you do get people talking about other topics (philosophy, history, ecology). The format is each presenter can show 20 slides, with each slide being showen for 20 seconds, whilst talking, so that the total presentation lasts only 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It can be hit and miss, but on the night we went most were hits. Started life in Tokyo, launched by a couple of architects (one British and one Italian), as a way for people to communicate in person to an audience. It's been so successful, that it's spreading accross the world and is well worth finding out if they have a PECHA KUCHA in your city.
Toshi and Hannah departed Japan lugging loads of new purchases back to London. It was really great having them stay with us. Funny how we could just carry on so easily, especially as we haven't seen each other for nearly two years. Such lovely people (although they seem to have got Miyu back on the smokes again!) Toshi fell in love with a t-shirt shop which is located just five minutes walk from our house, called DESIGN TSHIRTS STORE GRANIPH, which have some awesome designs on various types of Ts, and which are updated regularly. The price is right too, with one going for 2,100 Yen (15 GBP) and then getting progressively cheaper if you buy more than one. It's such a great idea - people send the company their designs and if they like it they produce and sell it, giving the designer dosh for their design. This means that with unquenchable thirst for new things, the shop fits in perfectly to meet this need. Plus the designs are very cool!
Talking of design, Tokyo Design Week has been taking part here. The place has been swarming with designers from all over the world, who have come to display their wares and to network like crazy. Miyu and I attended an interesting event last week, being run in as part of Design Week, called PECHA KUCHA (meaning chit chat in Japanese). Basically, it's a night of intense presentations, given by anybody that wants to share their latest ideas with a rapt audience. Most are about design, but occasionally you do get people talking about other topics (philosophy, history, ecology). The format is each presenter can show 20 slides, with each slide being showen for 20 seconds, whilst talking, so that the total presentation lasts only 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It can be hit and miss, but on the night we went most were hits. Started life in Tokyo, launched by a couple of architects (one British and one Italian), as a way for people to communicate in person to an audience. It's been so successful, that it's spreading accross the world and is well worth finding out if they have a PECHA KUCHA in your city.
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