The main venue of DESIGNTIDE TOKYO serves as a platform for designers to give polished, carefully considered presentations of their work.

This year, architect Ryuji Nakamura(中村竜治) has been selected to design the main venue at DESIGNTIDE TOKYO. How will he interpret the works by this year’s participating designers? What kind of space will he create to showcase them? Fans of Nakamura’s previous work are no doubt already looking forward to what he will come up with this time.

Brainstorming sessions for potential ideas are already underway. Look out for updates on Nakamura’s ideas and creative process in the coming weeks! / via DesignTide

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Ryuji Nakamura Profile
Architect. Born in Nagano in 1972. Worked at Jun Aoki&Associates. Established Ryuji Nakamura Architects in 2004. Main Works: JIN’s GLOBAL STANDARD NAGAREYAMA, Space for Exhibition “ribbon project of mina perhonen”, Scenery for Opera “Le Grand Macabre”, and Installation at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo “Where is Architecture? Seven Installations by Japanese Architects’” etc. Main Awards: Good Design Award, JCD Design Award Grand Award, THE GREAT INDOORS AWARD (Netherlands), and Competition of Kumamoto Art Polis “West Square of Kumamoto Satation” Second Prize etc.
http://www.ryujinakamura.com

當眾人都感嘆Polaroid(拍立得) 不再生產相紙之際，一群愛好攝影的同好，組成了The Impossible Project，並想盡辦法集資，買下最後一間Polaroid工廠，並研發新技術、包裝，於最近開始重新生產了Polaroid的相紙了！雖然目前只有黑白，但彩色的也即將問世！The Impossible Project並呼籲大家，別急著把你手中的Polaroid相機丟掉，因為現在，你又可以盡情的使用Polaroid創作了！

Way back in February 09 we told you about the impossible project ! That a team of Polaroid lovers, wanted to find funds to save at least one Polaroid factory. And they did ! Apparently the film quality is not there yet but of course a very cool packaging and for now, it only comes in b&w, but they say color PX film is on the way…  (by Cyril Style)

Designer Tokujin Yoshioka (吉岡德仁) has designed a window display for Maison Hermés, Tokyo. ‘The window is designed with an image of woman projected on to a monitor. The scarf softly sways in the air in response to the woman’s blow.’

30th pathway  group exhibition
Participating artist：Kaoru Ogura, Juri Kato, Akie Tsuzuki,Rina Tokura, Meg Hasegawa as trip, Momoko Masaki, Mitomo Mizutani, Atsumi Yamaguchi

DATA : Sep 24th – 29th, 2009
TIME : 12:00-20:00 (last day -17:00)
Opening party：25th, Friday,  18:00-21:00
PLACE : SOCIAL  http://www.socialtokyo.com/index2.html
ADDRESS : 1-22-5 Shibuya Shibuya, Tokyo

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‘ 30th pathway ‘は、同じ1979年に生まれ、共に10代を過ごした
8人のアーティストが30年という人生の通過点で再び出逢い、
それぞれの過去-現在-未来のかけらを作品という形で表現した
タイムカプセルのような展覧会です。
是非、足をお運びください。

Radiohead’s new song ‘Harry Patch (In memory of)’, is inspired by and dedicated to Britain’s last survivor of the First World War. (Arts for this slideshow are by Stanley Donwood)

RADIOHEAD新的單曲“Harry Patch(In Memory Of)” 是獻給前陣子才過世的，第一世界大戰英國的倖存老兵Harry Patch。111歲高齡辭世，但內心卻是感慨的。

‘i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
i’ve seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn’