Arts & Design

Japanese designer toy maker MediCom Toy Inc. has launched a new limited series of Be@rbrick figures featuring Spongebob Squarepants. Be@rbrick figures are highly collectable and usually collected by adults. The…


I am always impressed with the amount of miniature stuff that can be found in Japanese stores for crafts, figurines and similar hobbies. Often they sell fully-detailed miniature wooden models…


The 22nd Tokyo International Film Festival opened on Saturday, October 17th, and will last until Sunday, October 25th.
The festival which aims to emphasize the importance of the global environment,…


Broccoli??? Certainly! A few days ago I found these pictures displayed at a train station. This is not a catalog of vegetables as one might think, but rather it’s called…


While randomly browsing the net today, I found this neat product called Tumi-Ishi, the brainwork of a Japanese design studio A4. Tumi-Ishi is sort of a modern version of an…