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Too Much Magazine explores the inherent romance of our built environments

“Our real interest is not a specific field like architecture, art, or anthropology, but space and spaces,” says Yoshi Tsujimura,...

Singapore

Japanese gadget maker Yuichiro Katsumoto hacks everyday objects to make life a little less serious

Yuichiro Katsumoto’s design ethos hinges on his ability to see the potential for joy and exploration in mundane objects. The...

Tokyo Fashion

Japanese sneakerhead Tetsuya Shono

It all started with a book: Six Stories of GORE-TEX® Products Vol. 2 is the brainchild of Jörg Haas who...

Tokyo Art

Daito Manabe: Making use of deep brain data

As a former DJ, Daito has now established himself as a talented programmer, engineer and media artist working with many...

Berlin

Meet the FvF Contributors: Shinji Minegishi

With a background in Japanese perfectionism, he’s since adapted to a more narrative style. FvF has been working with Shinji...

Tokyo Art

Steven Simon: Adjusting your focus

“He used to talk a lot about his business trips to Japan and it seemed to me so unreal and...

Nagano

Mikio Hasui

Hasui makes the perfect cup of coffee, from Tanzanian beans roasted in his kitchen. A selection of mellow jazz tunes...

Tokyo Art

Sayori & Toyotsugu Wada

Growing up as a third generation of Edokko and born to a father wedded to surf, it’s no surprise that...

Tokyo

Ai Fukasawa

Born and raised in Tokyo, Ai left her hometown in 1998 and moved to New York to study graphic design...

Tokyo

Hanayo & Tenko

Squeezed between the gigantic hubs of Shibuya and Ebisu in the concrete heart of Tokyo, there lies a house on...

Tokyo Art

Azuma Makoto

For the most part it is a daunting task to summarize a city by a single characteristic. In the case...

Tokyo Art

Hiroki Tsukuda

Hiroki Tsukuda is a contemporary artist based in Tokyo. Working as an artist is often not an easy way to...

Community

Meet the FvF Contributors: Antonia Märzhäuser from Berlin

When you think about the expansive international network that is Freunde von Freunden, sooner or later you will arrive at...

Los Angeles Fashion

Chris Gibbs

“Streetwear is to fashion what Punk, Hip Hop and Jazz were to mainstream music. It started as a youth driven...

Tokyo Fashion

Akiyoshi Mishima

Akiyoshi Mishima is not your average one-dimensional character. Due to his long list of achievements as a visual artist, graphic...

The FvF Year 2012 in Numbers and Pictures

As we arrive at the end of the year we would like to take this opportunity to present Freunde von...

Tokyo Design

Kurando Furuya

Growing up in a suburb of Tokyo, Kurando Furuya‘s main source of entertainment was a massive amount of Manga he...

Ginza x FvF

A region that exudes a special fascination to us is Asia in general and Japan specificly. You can imagine how...

Berlin

Helena Kapidzic

Sonnenlicht durchflutet die geräumige, in weiss gehaltene Dachgeschosswohnung in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Draußen ist es ruhig. “Die Treppen in den sechsten Stock...

Berlin

Nela König

Ob Marilyn Manson, Gwen Stefani, Heike Makatsch oder 50 Cent – sie hatte sie alle vor der Linse und zeigt...