Black Taxi, winter issue
0February 28, 2009 by miki
Category design | Tags: Black Taxi, Hamada, Japan, JET Programme
Hamada on the map, and how…
1February 25, 2009 by miki
This is from a while back as well, but my little city in Shimane apparently made the New York Times. The local expats were all a tizzy over our sudden moment of non-obscurity, though not for any flattering sort of reason, if according the article we’re to be an example of the frivolities of economic stimulus packages.
Did you know there’s a city in Japan called Obama? Now, “Yes, we can,” has also become a grammar point for one of my junior high school classes, as well as the one demonstration of English speaking ability from just about every student and teacher around. “Yes, we can Yes, we can Yes, we can!” Yes, I certainly see that you can. I should rejoice their enthusiastic demonstrations of verbal capability to the foreign teacher, but God help me.
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month old fish eggs
0February 10, 2009 by miki
The BOE wanted me to make a button design based on the following:
In case you don’t know, like I didn’t, that’s what karasumi (the Japanese delicacy, mullet roe) looks like. OK! So, here was my quick, end of the day attempt to cute-ify the thing:
the low low low-res version… I wanted to give my roe some awesome 80’s hair… *snigger*… but figured the joke would be lost in translation, so opted for generically tubular and happy. Anway, my Japanese colleagues seemed to find the design as it was acceptable, and thus it shall be turned into buttons to adorn the collars of the few and proud Japanese students who are part of the Karasumi group. Yatta!
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