March 8th, 2010
Last year, a dev team from California approached Tokyo Art Beat and NY Art Beat with a plan to bring TAB and NYAB's rich art exhibition resource to the iPhone. Needless to say, we were eager to jump on board for what would be our first iPhone app project. READ MORE »
September 28th, 2009
Does Meiji's milk bottle inspired new logo deliver? READ MORE »
September 16th, 2009
Last week, AQ took a short field trip to the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in Niigata Prefecture, accompanied by our friends at Tokyo Art Beat and Birds Design. READ MORE »
August 14th, 2009
Quotes from a 2007 interview with Steve Albini, engineer of classic rock records like Nirvana's Nevermind READ MORE »
July 20th, 2009
A new website for our favorite Tokyo/Hangzhou-based web dev team READ MORE »
May 7th, 2009
Tokyo Art Map was recently featured in the Japanese book Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets (カタログ・パンフレットのレイアウト）, with details on type, color and format decisions. READ MORE »
February 13th, 2009
A feature request to add understanding to the bumps and dips in user metrics. READ MORE »
January 28th, 2009
The past couple years have seen the launch of a few art maps, including our beautiful Tokyo Art Maps launched in early 2008. Let's take a look at some of the other maps that one can find around Tokyo. READ MORE »
January 20th, 2009
Our latest project: a new website for Japanese sportswear manufacturer ASICS, that's almost as lightweight, sturdy and hi-tech as their running shoes. READ MORE »
January 5th, 2009
We hope you join us in proving the grumpy newscasters wrong about 2009, filling it with new ideas, inspiration, and endeavors. READ MORE »
October 15th, 2008
In design, local tastes rule, even for Google. READ MORE »
September 23rd, 2008
In November, Tokyo will be host to Web Directions East, part of the Web Directions conference series started in Australia in 2004 covering everything from design to back-end development. READ MORE »
September 21st, 2008
Revitalization through Art in the Seto Inland Sea READ MORE »
June 25th, 2008
New Hitotoki cities, New Art Beat cities, new maps, new faces! READ MORE »
June 20th, 2008
A free download from our drawer of unfinished projects. READ MORE »
May 30th, 2008
After two years at the excellent Co-lab collaborative share studio for creators, making new friendships and new projects, AQ is moving on to a new office. READ MORE »
April 2nd, 2008
TAB steps offline with free bilingual paper art maps, street flags and posters for Marunouchi's art festival, and a type design talk with Christian Schwartz READ MORE »
January 18th, 2008
Join us Tuesday, Jan 29th at 7pm at The Pink Cow for a night of food, drinks, friends and stories! READ MORE »
December 10th, 2007
Firefox's video contest galleries opened today. Go and vote for your fav. READ MORE »
November 26th, 2007
We at AQ love to bake, steam, stew, chop, and peel, and eat; we spend about as much time talking about food as we do about design. So we decided to see what happens when the two meet, by dissecting a handful of the most popular recipe sites. Bon appétit! READ MORE »
October 30th, 2007
Last week we interviewed Khoi Vinh for the popular Japanese design portal CBC-net. The interview was published in Japanese only, but here is the English for all the single-byte readers out there. READ MORE »
September 29th, 2007
Join us at TAB's 3rd Anniversary in a few weeks for music, live VJ sets and roasted chestnuts! READ MORE »
September 27th, 2007
Hitotoki NYC launches with eight stories of celebrity sunburns, posturing statues and Vietnamese sandwiches. Now accepting submissions from all five boroughs, and maybe even North Jersey. READ MORE »
September 11th, 2007
"The Case for New Type" is Chris's first article in a new half-year gig at CBC-net, "a creative portal site which gathers information of Art and Design from various fields", and one of the most read Japanese-language design sites. READ MORE »
August 27th, 2007
An interview with Nikola Djurek about his serif typeface Amalia. Part Six in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
August 21st, 2007
An interview with Kai Oetzbach and Natascha Dell about Jenny, their serif typeface inspired by Jenson's Antiqua. Part Five in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
August 14th, 2007
An interview with Chester Jenkins about his sans-serif typeface Galaxie Polaris. Part Four in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
August 1st, 2007
Our officemates and Hitotoki partners Chin Music Press have just released their newest book, Goodbye Madame Butterfly, a collection of "intimate portraits, revealing the struggles and complexities of modern Japanese women". READ MORE »
August 1st, 2007
Hitotoki is taking on the Big Apple this September. Send us your stories! READ MORE »
July 31st, 2007
An interview with Jarno Lukkarila about his typeface Xtra Sans. Part Three in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
July 28th, 2007
An interview with Jeremy Tankard about his typeface Bliss, an English sans-serif in the tradition of Gill Sans and Johnston's Underground Type. Part Two in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
July 23rd, 2007
An interview with Eric Olson about his typeface Klavika. Part One in our series introducing the best of contemporary Western typefaces to Japanese designers. READ MORE »
July 3rd, 2007
TAB launches the new TABlog, with more diverse content, more pictures, and better presentation, with design help from AQ. READ MORE »
July 3rd, 2007
After attending fifteen Pecha Kucha Nights in Tokyo over the past 2 years, and presenting three times, I would like to share some tips on what makes a show-stopping presentation and memorable evening, even without booze. READ MORE »
June 23rd, 2007
Hitotoki, the narrative map of Tokyo, is now accepting submissions in Japanese. READ MORE »
May 1st, 2007
Hitotoki, our first colaboration with Chin Music Press, is live! Hitotoki.org traces a narrative map of Tokyo through personal stories from curious outsiders. We launched today with six stories from Tokyo outsiders like Jean Snow and Joseph Squier. READ MORE »
March 7th, 2005
Approaches to the design of web-published direction maps for small and medium-sized businesses, including Tokyo-specific considerations. Originally published on LukeW’s Functioning Form. READ MORE »
October 27th, 2004
Discusses English text in Japanese design and Analphabetic glyphs available in Japanese typefaces. Originally published on LukeW’s Functioning Form. READ MORE »
October 15th, 2004
A primer in Japanese typography for the web, for “Gaijin” by one. Discusses basic type classification, white space, and the limitations of Japanese HTML text. Originally published on LukeW’s Functioning Form. READ MORE »
New contest website calling on Japan's creative community to contribute short videos to help expand the reach of the famous open-source browser Firefox in Japan
