Quoted: There is an artist whose colourful, and warm appliques seem to have a mysterious healing power. Today PingMag talks to Tokyo-based Yoshie, who when she is not teaching workshops, seamlessly stitches and sews her illustrative embroidery art onto picture books, ads, and CD jackets to spread the love with mixed sewing media.Written by Hiroshi SasakiTranslated

Quoted: Cochae, our favourite modern origami unit, has been on Ping briefly before. However, this time, we can’t resist introducing you to their best graphic origami made out of photocopied collages in greater length. And it’s not only because we always recommend their folded creations as ideal souvenirs to foreign friends before they try to [...]

Quoted: Lullatone are a musical duo based in Nagoya comprised of the husband and wife team of Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. They make sweet, sleepy, sine-wave-riddled songs with whispered lyrics, poppy melodies, and parse, carefully arranged beats. The Lullas utilise children's instruments, splashing water, household sounds, and electronic sounds

Quoted: The deeply romantic and dark affection seen in Aya Kato's illustrations have surfaced on the screens of media players, laptops, and mobile phones with quite a mysterious aura. Which made us wonder just what would lie behind those layers? PingMag wanted to find out more about this 26-year-old from Aichi and her closest friend, the [...]

Quoted: Oh, it's another day to present you the finest of Japanese arts and crafts from PingMag MAKE! Here we go: Hasami is a traditional pottery town in Nagasaki. The local porcelain is fine, of the purest white and made by highly skilled craftsmen. There, the Hakusan Porcelain company has been making porcelain tableware for eight [...]

Quoted: Yokohama Triennale is one of the largest contemporary art festivals in Japan. So until November 30th, this year's event is gathering 72 artists from 25 countries under the theme of “Time Crevasse,” curated by the likes of Mizusawa Tsutomu, Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist or Hu Fang. Since it is spread over seven venues across [...]

Quoted: When Hajime Ichikawa isn't working as a landscape architect in Akasaka, he follows his passion for Tokyo's topography. Sometimes you'll find him developing concepts for a future city in an altered landscape (think of the rising sea levels) for the Fibre City project, and other times he'll be depicting Tokyo in all kinds of visualisations: [...]

Quoted: For close to thirteen years, Haruo Suekichi has been investing hours upon hours every day to develop watches with a Steampunk flair. Reminiscent of Jules Verne and influenced by manga, his finely crafted watches are of a vintage futuristic kind. And what started with an unsuccessful attempt to hawk them at a flea market has [...]

Quoted: Since you, beloved reader, seemed to enjoy our recent How-to Reduce Packaging Journal quite a lot, we decided to do a little variation with some more nifty ideas: packaging design concepts surrounding us in our everyday Japanese life that make things just so much more convenient! From refill packs that you can open without scissors [...]