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A DIY project from the new AQ office. READ MORE »

Chris was featured in the August issue of Web Designing, discussing typography for websites - best practices, examples and more. READ MORE »

How do you get people interested in an event that 1) they've never heard of, 2) will happen next year, 3) in a remote part of the country? READ MORE »

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 »

Does Meiji's milk bottle inspired new logo deliver? READ MORE »

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 »

Quotes from a 2007 interview with Steve Albini, engineer of classic rock records like Nirvana's Nevermind READ MORE »

A new website for our favorite Tokyo/Hangzhou-based web dev team READ MORE »

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 »

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A feature request to add understanding to the bumps and dips in user metrics. READ MORE »

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 »

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 »

We hope you join us in proving the grumpy newscasters wrong about 2009, filling it with new ideas, inspiration, and endeavors. READ MORE »

In design, local tastes rule, even for Google. READ MORE »

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 »

Revitalization through Art in the Seto Inland Sea READ MORE »

New Hitotoki cities, New Art Beat cities, new maps, new faces! READ MORE »

A free download from our drawer of unfinished projects. READ MORE »

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 »

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 »

Join us Tuesday, Jan 29th at 7pm at The Pink Cow for a night of food, drinks, friends and stories! READ MORE »

Firefox's video contest galleries opened today. Go and vote for your fav. READ MORE »

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 »

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 »

Join us at TAB's 3rd Anniversary in a few weeks for music, live VJ sets and roasted chestnuts! READ MORE »

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 »

"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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Hitotoki is taking on the Big Apple this September. Send us your stories! READ MORE »

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 »

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 »

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 »

TAB launches the new TABlog, with more diverse content, more pictures, and better presentation, with design help from AQ. READ MORE »

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 »

Hitotoki, the narrative map of Tokyo, is now accepting submissions in Japanese. READ MORE »

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 »

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 »

Discusses English text in Japanese design and Analphabetic glyphs available in Japanese typefaces. Originally published on LukeW’s Functioning Form. READ MORE »

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 »