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[23 Jun 2010 | View Comments | 514 views]
Evangelion Merchandise: dal caffe' al Pachinko, passando per gommine e patatine

Come da noi spospolano le bevande energetiche, in Giappone il caffe’ in lattina o in brick e’ una consuetudine; quasi sempre al latte e zuccherato, viene venduto nei grossi supermercati e alle macchinette automatiche. In occasione del lancio di Neon Genesis Evangelion: Rebuild of Evangelion: Evangelion 2:0 – You can (not) advance, ecco che sono spuntate queste lattine – 6 motivi differenti – andate a ruba.

Japan, design, inspiration, trends »

[6 Mar 2010 | View Comments | 1,017 views]
Biglietti da visita su carta di cotone, l'arte nipponico-vintage di Winged Wheel

I biglietti da visita di Winged Wheel, ispirati alle icone su legno dell’era Meiji, con i colori ed i disegni tradizional-vintage.
Un piccolo tocco di originalita’ per i classici biglietti che tanto ci devono rappresentare.
Date un’occhiata a queste graziose perle nipponiche e, se avete bisogno di rinnovare il vostro look cartaceo, fateci un pensierino =)

Craft, Japan, culture, design, inspiration, lifestyle »

[4 Jan 2010 | View Comments | 1,631 views]
Interior Design: quando Giappone e' sinonimo di stile abitativo

I Giapponesi sono da sempre considerati un popolo che vive velocemente, senza troppo gusto in fatto di arredi; il loro modo di vestire e’ senza dubbio bizzarro ai nostri occhi occidentali, cio’ non toglie che vi siano dei dettagli di stile che li rendono riconoscibilissimi, come i mille straps ai telefoni (dai quali mi sono lasciata contagiare pure io), le acconciature multiforma e multicolore, i bento box (su Japan Streets potete trovare una recensione di fantastici bento art box), Hello Kitty, il vestiario gotic-cosplay-harajuku-style-marinaro.

Japan, anime, development, evangelion »

[25 Jul 2009 | View Comments | 4,691 views]
Rebuild of Evangelion: Hideaki Anno's statement about the movie

This new saga, this new conception, is the final -therefore- the original way Hideaki Anno intended the whole serie. I had the chanche to buy one of the limited edition of Evangelion 1:01 You are (not) alone and have to say the graphic enforcement is magnificent.
Behind the human torments and pains shown in big quantity, the astonishment flies directly to the better quality of the images thanks to the new 3D CG and of the sound.

Japan, Ukiyo-e, design, prints »

[25 Apr 2009 | View Comments | 303 views]
Ukiyo-e, pictures from the floating world

Ukiyo-e, literally “the pictures from the Floating Wolrd”, is an expression of Japanese Art representing that famous and so mysterious world made of hedonistic lifestyles; the art of Ukiyo-e is first seen in the Edo Period (that goes from 1600 to 1868 under the rule of Emperor Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu), considered one of the most important era beside the Meiji Period (straight from 1868 to 1912 when Japan rose to a world potence with the biggest modernization under the rule of Emperor Meiji the Great – Meiji means Enlightened Rule).
Those …

3D, Featured, Japan, graphics »

[10 Jan 2009 | View Comments | 1,819 views]
Japanese Fine Arts and Gifts

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Got a strange kind of fascination for Japan and its culture, its fine arts, its colors, its perfumes and scients. When happens to me to surf into a Japan-whatever site, those who offers your name wrote in Kanji or Hiragana or Katakana, I’m quite interested; learnt a bit of Kanji calligraphy on my own just because I felt there are not enough things to be written.
I mean: have you ever wanted your name in Kanji and tried out thousands of website which were offering you that service at a high …