Trio Magnus in the Land of the Rising Sun
Trio Magnus in the Land of the Rising Sun
- 19 November 2007
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Konnichiwa from Tokyo, the city with the best vending machines on earth! I've been over here since November 5th and along with my friends Steve Wilson and CTON, have recently wrapped up a huge tradeshow called Design Festa where we launched a collaborative book project (titled "Equally Superior") which the three of us created under the banner our illustrative collective, Trio Magnus (see a few blogs back for more about that) and which was published by our dear friend Anne Koyama. The show, the biggest of its kind in Asia, was fantastic and we had a great time meeting new friends and spending our hard-earned yen on a variety of delightful items being sold our the fellow exhibitors who, for the record, numbered in the thousands.
To see a sample of the good stuff between the covers, take a peek at the Trio Magnus website, triomagnus.com, where we'll soon be offering the book for sale. We'll also be having a big "Equally Superior" launch party in Toronto on December 14th, so stay tuned for more details on that. Back to the present, the highlight of today was seeing a tiny temple dedicated to the tanuki, critters more commonly known as racoon dogs which are apparently hedonistic shape-shifters and are often depicted with huge testicles. What a great country!
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