10 March 2010
Good sketchbooks are really hard to find in Japan. This is a good one from PH Stationery. Only 600 yen and the paper tooth is just perfect for me. The paper is just a little bit light but it’s fine. It’s a thin book, maybe only 140 pages? The pages fold back flat really well, and then the book closes fine. A real good sketchbook, A-.
8 March 2010
Kame-san wristwatch
Student uniform hair clip
Custom school badge
I designed this collection a few months ago after seeing a show of mega-expensive jewelry at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi. Van Cleef & Arpels makes things like shiny tiny fairies encrusted made out of titanium, or butterflies made of rubies and emeralds.
23 February 2010
12 February 2010
8 February 2010
31 January 2010
23 January 2010
23 January 2010
15 January 2010
11 January 2010
By the way, after several days spent looking carefully at trains and train tracks and train stations, last night I had a creepy dream in which I rode a JR Raichyo train from Amagasaki station through Paris to Baltimore Street. It was a really long dream with lots of train details that I won’t recount.