‘iMeshi’ Japanese food iPhone 4 cases produced by Strapya

(via designboom)

colorful poster designs by Tadanori Yokoo

(rediscovered via 50 Watts)

Forbidden Planet’s review of Studio Ghibli’s The Borrower Arrietty

 book shelves up to the ceiling, my dream house…

“Shelf-Pod is a private residence and study building, located in Osaka prefecture, Japan. The client owns an extensive collection of books on the subject of Islamic history, so he requested that we create this building with the maximum capacity for its storage and exhibition…” —Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio

(via Core 77)

Paper Type Ramen, papercut poster designed via Maricor Maricar

Eas+ern Eggs for Japan

London-based designers and illustrators are contributing artwork for TBWA London’s Eastern Eggs initiative to raise funds for the British Red Cross: Japan Tsunami Appeal.

vintage Japanese Safety Match labels

Chip Kidd shares a little insight on the jacket design for the Knopf edition of Haruki Murakami’s novel, 1Q84 (due out in the U.S. on October 25th, 2011). 

I’ve been waiting awhile for this English translation…

Diem Chau’s custom carved crayon family portrait to help raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society.

“Dark Spring,” Christoph Niemann’s cover illustration for The New Yorker

(issue for week of March 28th, 2011)

stampdesigns:

Japan postage stamp: sun and dragonflies

c. 1923, part of Earthquake Emergency Series

“The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 destroyed the warehouses of the Printing Bureau and Communications Ministry (the current Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications). The equipment necessary for producing stamps and most of the stamps which had been stored were lost. As an emergency measure to make up for the shortage of stamps, the government consigned production of stamps to a private corporation. This corporation produced stamps known as the ‘Earthquake stamps.’ The stamps did not have perforations or glue, but a watermark called the ‘earthquake watermark’ was used. The Printing Bureau was reconstructed much sooner than expected and the earthquake stamps were abolished on April 30, 1925.” —Evolution of Japanese Stamps

Please visit the Red Cross or other charitable organizations to help victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan and other affected regions. Google has launched Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake and W+K Tokyo has set up a person finding aggregator, buji.me/.

W+K Studio is helping to raise relief funds for Japan with the sale of a 1-color screenprint poster designed by Max Erdenberger. W+K Tokyo has also set up a person finding aggregator, http://buji.me.

The Big Picture on Japan’s earthquake

awesome early 20th century magazine covers from Japan scanned from the out-of-print Pie book Book Cover Design in Japan 1910-40 

(first discovered via Journey Round My Skull)

Uniqlo Calendar iPad app