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Spoon & TamagoJapanKawaii Buildings, as Seen Through the Lens of Urban Photographer Ken Ohyama Urban photographer Ken Ohyama is passionate about cities and the various structures that form them. The Japanese photographer has a knack for taking oft-overlooked elements of urban environments like highways and housing
Spoon & TamagoJapanMinecraft Characters Emerge in the Fields for Gaming-Inspired Gyoda Rice Paddy Art Every summer, the city of Gyoda in Saitama Prefecture turns rice paddies into giant canvases, planting colorful rice varieties to form massive works of art. Known as tanbo art, these living murals stretch across nearly t
Spoon & TamagoJapanFamilyMart and Sumo Legend Chiyonofuji is the Celebrity Collab We Didn’t Know We Needed FamilyMart’s in-house apparel label Convenience Wear is stepping into the world of sumo with a new limited-edition collaboration celebrating legendary yokozuna Chiyonofuji. Developed in collaboration with fashion designe
Spoon & TamagoJapanArtist Hiro Sugiyama Recreates Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’ With 750,000 Dahlias Once every two years, Brussels turns its Grand-Place into a living work of art. This year, artist Hiro Sugiyama transformed the cobblestones into a vibrant floral display as the Belgian capital celebrates the 24th editio
Spoon & TamagoJapanSou Fujimoto’s Meiji Park Brings a Three-Dimensional Landscape to Hakata Station Is it a park? A building? A pathway? A Landscape? It’s one of our most-anticipated architecture project of 2026, and it just opened yesterday (August 7) in Fukuoka, just steps away from Hakata Station. Meiji Park is a ne
Spoon & TamagoJapanKiyo Takeda: The Architect Making Tokyo Green Again Japanese architect Kiyo Takeda belongs to a new generation of designers challenging the long-held notion that architecture should impose order on nature. Instead, his work embraces unpredictability, creating buildings th
Spoon & TamagoJapanKokuyo’s New ‘Transparent Mechanism’ Collection Puts its Engineering on Full Display For more than a century, Kokuyo has been quietly refining the humble tools of the desk. Beyond a pursuit of quality and utilitarianism, the Osaka-based maker of stationery tools has always tried to “pique the curiosity o
Spoon & TamagoJapanFamilyMart’s New Hipster ‘FAMIMA’ Reimagines What a Conbini Can Be For decades, Japan’s convenience stores have been admired for, well, their convenience. By being sweetly attuned to utilitarian consumer needs, the ubiquitous 24/7 conbini has spread across Japan, achieving an unparallel
Spoon & TamagoJapanMUJI is Restoring Antique Furniture Salvaged from Kominka Across Japan Minimal lifestyle brand MUJI has been in the homebuilding business for over a decade. And in recent year they have expanded their focus to not just building new homes but renovating old kominka folk homes. The latest off
Spoon & TamagoJapanSaya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser Shavings Most of us erase mistakes without a second thought. The curled ribbons that gather beneath an eraser are little more than evidence of revisions before they’re brushed into the trash. But Saya Irie sees them differently.
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