White Rabbit Press - Beta Release
The new website for White Rabbit Press (Tokyo based publishing house) will be released soon.
Preview: www.whiterabbitpress.com
Laptop Battle Tokyo
I will be performing live visual at Laptop Battle Tokyo on Thursdays 6.November 2008 at SuperDeluxe. More information here: www.laptopbattle.jp
Minimal Tokyo vs. Uplink Collaboration feat. Bento Graphics Live Visuals and Graphics
Please be warmly invited to the next Minimal Tokyo event on Saturday, 1th November 2008 at SuperDeluxe/Tokyo. This time it is a collaboration with Uplink, an Tokyo (Shibuya) based art center, DVD label and cinema theater.
The event will consist of two parts, the first half of the evening will be talks, screenings and discussions as well as the official “Max Hattler vs. Rober Seidel” DVD release announcement. The second half will be a club event featuring performances of the Minimal Tokyo resident team and guest DJs/VJs.
Bentographics is providing the cover graphic for the upcoming “Max Hattler vs. Robert Seidel” DVD as well as the event flyer and a live visual performance. View the flyer here: http://bentographics.com/portfolio/print/minimal-tokyo-vs-uplink/
Japan Journal
Shortly the German language news website, JapanJournal.de, will be released.
Work in progress: http://japanjournal.de/site/
WC Recordings @Unit - Feat. Visuals by Bento Graphics
The Minimal Tokyo collective including myself will play at Saloon@Unit (Tokyo) on 11th October 2008.
#10 Minimal Tokyo 2nd Anniversary - Feat. Visuals by Bento Graphics
For a slot on the discount list drop me a mail: bentoenterprises@gmail.com
Minimal Tokyo 2nd Anniversary party with Daniel Steinberg (Stylerockets, Micro.fon, Front Room) from Berlin and Minimal Tokyo crew.
DANIEL STEINBERG is one of the most innovative producers that have recently emerged from Berlin’s electronic music scene. His unique twist of minimal house has caught worldwide attention with its characteristic beats, bleeps, bouncy bass lines and cut-up vocals sampled from scratchy old records. The resulting compositions are refreshing, ironic and fun, they’re played by the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Richie Hawtin and Claude VonStroke. Daniel has released extensively on such excellent labels as Micro.fon, Grandpetrol, Front Room Recordings and Style Rockets, as well as Kiddaz.FM and Rompecabeza as his alter ego Harry Axt. This is the very first time Daniel Steinberg is performing in Japan and we are excited to have him with us at Minimal Tokyo.
”… it sucks the brain out of your head with its strange poetic drift … perfect combination of the label’s twisted sound and Berlin minimal mood …” from review of recent Daniel Steinberg’s release (FRM020) by De:bug magazine.
Daniel Steinberg
ベルリンから初来日する Daniel Steinberg (Stylerockets、Micro.fon、Front Room)をゲストDJに向かえ、Minimal Tokyo crewが記念すべき２周年パーティーを開催！
DANIEL STEINBERG はベルリンのカッティングエッジなエレクトロニック・ミュージックシーンにて最も革新的なプロデューサーの一人。その特徴的なビート、電子音、軽快なベースラインと２０世紀初頭にリリースされ古いたレコードからサンプリングされた音からなる、彼独自のミニマルハウスが世界的に注目を集めている。Ricardo Villalobos、Richie Hawtin、Claude VonStrokeといったアーティストが、斬新で皮肉的、でも非常に楽しい彼の楽曲をプレイしている。 Micro.fon、 Grandpetrol 、 Front Room Recordings、 Style Rockets などの著名なレーベルから幅広くリリースし、また彼の別名義である Harry Axt の下、 Kiddaz.FM、 Rompecabeza からも作品を発表している。今回、Minimal Tokyoにて彼の日本初のパフォーマンスが実現する。
「その奇妙でポエティックな音は頭から脳みそが吸い取られる感じだ・・・レーベル特有のひねくれ感とベルリンのミニマルムードとの完璧な融合。」 （Daniel Steinbergの近作「FRM020」に関するレビュー、「 De:bug magazine 」より）。
GUEST DJ
Daniel Steinberg (Stylerockets, Micro.fon, Front Room)
RESIDENT DJS
Tatsuya,
Ivan Kuzbass,
Shu Okuyama (Milnormodern, Minimood)
… also
Kaoru Masugi (Organza)
VISUALS
Spielfilm, Bento, MOA
FLYER DESIGN
Flyer artwork is by Berlin based graphics designer Paul Snowden
COLLABORATION
We collaborated with Someone’s Garden – best undeground art & design magazine in Tokyo.
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VENUE
Liquid Loft in Ebisu
DATE AND TIME
September 27, 2008
24:00 – 6:00AM
COVER CHARGE
¥3000
¥2500 with flyer
¥1000 after 5:00 am
• You have to be at least 20 years old and present a valid photo ID.
Hax Hattler & Robert Seidel - Uplink DVD Release
Bento Graphic designed the cover graphic for the upcoming Max Hattler vs. Robert Seidel DVD on the Tokyo based Uplink label. Max Hattler and Robert Seidel are both film-maker and media artists.
Also a DVD release party will be held at Super Deluxe on 1th of November 2008. You are warmly invited to join this event which will conincide with the 4th anniversary of the venue Super Deluxe.
SKM Re-Design - Work in progress
Bento Graphics is in progress of re-designing the SKM website. SKM provides various facility services for Toyota.
Old:
New:
TokyoApartment.com released
This week the well known real estate site TokyoApartment.com was released. The site is run by Big Brother K.K. (partly owned by Gplus Media). Bento Graphics provided a re-design including a fresh new visual identity, site concept, graphic design, XHTML/CSS for templates as well as Wordpress CMS set-up for one part of the site. Also 3 other separate sites were incorporated into this major real estate portal site.
Please take a look here: www.tokyoapartment.com
A project description was added to the portfolio section, here:
Marianne Bailey
The new homepage of British product designer Marianne Bailey has been launched. Visit her new site here: http://mariannebailey.com
Marianne Bailey used to work at Factorydesign (London) and currently works for the Yamaha Product design laboratory in Japan. Her work is on display from 25th July 2008 - 31th August 2008 at the “au design project & Yamaha” exhibition at the KDDI Design Center in Tokyo.
Read more about this project in my portfolio section:
http://bentographics.com/portfolio/web/marianne-bailey/
MINIMAL TOKYO LOUNGE @ WOMB
I won`t be performing live-visuals this time, however for a place on the discount list (¥2500) you can still send me a mail: bentographics@gmail.com
June 13th, 2008, Friday
11:00 pm - 5:00 am
Cover Charge:
¥4000, ¥3500 with flyer / WOMB members,
¥3000 Clubberia members
More info: www.minimaltokyo.com
The Minimal Tokyo crew will team up with Organza for a minimal
techno night at legendary Tokyo club Womb. On the main floor,
Organza resident DJs Pi-Ge and Taro Sugawara will be joined by
Spanish Techno virtuosi Alex Under and Tadeo, accompanied
by visuals from Minimal Tokyo resident VJ Spielfilm.
Minimal Tokyo will take over the 1st floor lounge, where resident
DJs Tatsuya, Ivan Kuzbass, Shu Okuyama (Milnormodern, Minimood)
and GLMN(c) will join forces Valentino de Bronff (Minimood) to play
cutting edge minimal techno, deep and tech house.
Minimal Tokyoがあの Womb のミニマル・テクノナイトでDJします！
メインフロアーでは、OrganzaレジデントDJ、 Pi-Ge と Taro Sugawara が
スペインからのゲスト Alex Under と Tadeo 共にスピン、そしてMinimal
TokyoのレジデントVJ、SpielfilmもVJします！ そして、一階はMinimal
TokyoレジデントDJs (Tatsuya、Ivan Kuzbass、Shu Okuyama 、
GLMN、そして MinimoodからValentino de Bronff ）によオーガナイズ。
オールナイトでカッティングエッジなミニマルテクノ、ディープハウス、
テックハウスをプレイします。
Neu!
Two sites I am working on right now. YMS Language School www.ymss.com and ZAP Associates: www.zapassoc.com. Both are run on the Wordpress CMS. Will post more details once everything is said & done.
See through my eyes
I added a photo page to this site. Flickr re-activated. To see more click on one of the images. Enjoy!
Bento Live Visuals in Kobe
I will be performing live visuals back to back with Max Hattler and Robert Seidel on their Japan tour in Roots (club), Kobe on Friday 23th May 2006. Details: ¥2500 w1d + free buffet. Cafe Spark, 1F 3-2-1 Nunobiki-cho Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo.
Minimal Tokyo Party #9 feat. Bento Live-Visuals
Please be invited to the next Minimal Tokyo party on 10th May 2008 at Liquidroom - Loft
Live music set by SALMON (Karmarouge Noir / Raum…musik / WC Recordings) meets live visuals by MAX HATTLER (UK) and ROBERT SEIDEL (Germany).
Guest DJ: YOSHIKI (op.disk, Torema Recordings);
Minimal Tokyo resident DJs Tatsuya, Ivan Kuzbass, GLMN© and Shu Okuyama will play minimal techno, tech house and electro. Visuals are by Bento and MOA.
Starts 24:00 until 6:00 am; entrance is ¥2000 with flier and ¥2500 without flyer. For ¥1500 discount list, mail me
Gozi Fashion Site
Gozi Ochonogor is a Nigerian fashion designer based in Tokyo. “She started designing her own clothes while still studying, selling them at west London’s Portobello Market and acquiring several retail customers in Paris and Japan.”
Please take look at her new homepage here: www.gozi.co.uk
Hattler & Seidel Japan Tour 2008
My dear good friend Max Hattler and his sidekick Robert Seidel, both award-winning film makers, animators and VJs launching a Japan tour from 21. April - 28. May 2008. They will be roaming the streets of Tokyo till 10th of May, with several scheduled VJ-events, screenings and talks. After the 10th May they will continue their tour in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kobe etc). I will partly join them on their tour and perform live-visuals back to back with them at Roots Club / Café Spark in Kobe on the 23th May 2008.
On 23th April will be the in-official tour launch party in club Le Baron (Tokyo) with live visuals by Max Hattler, Rober Seidel as well as moi and others. This event is guest only. Below are a few other events they are participating in Tokyo:
- Thu 24 April // Presentation at Pecha Kucha Night, SuperDeluxe // Tokyo
- Wed 7 May, 19h // Screening + talk at Uplink Factory // Tokyo
- Thu 8 May, 19h // Screening + talk at Uplink Factory // Tokyo
- Sat 10 May // AV live set with Salmon (JP) at Minimal Tokyo, Liquid Rooms // Tokyo
Please download and spread their official press release (PDF) here:
PRESS-RELEASE_Hattler-Seidel_Japan-Tour-2008.pdf
Download the official tour flyer here:
maxhattler_robertseidel_japantour2008.pdf
tiny update
A new portfolio project is online: the business cards design for WA-Associates. There will be more to be heard of WA-Associates this year. Possibly another website and other print materials upcoming.
By the way:
I slightly changed the layout of this site to make more room for the actual content. Site-headers are a thing of the past ;) All headlines on this site now use sIFR in order to make this site more accessible. sIFR allows the usage of other fonts apart from the operating system fonts. I might use this technology more often for other upcoming websites too. Also, I placed a QR-code on my contact page, which is hugely popular in Japan and can be found on nearly every product or flyer. QR-codes can be scanned i.e. by mobile phones to access data about products or services including address details. Finally, from now you should be able to access this site via your mobile phone too.
IkonMedia
The new homepage for IkonMedia will be released shortly.
IkonMedia is run by Andy J. Taylor and provides photography and journalistic writing services.
Parissa Haghirian HP launched!
Parissa Haghirian is an Austrian professor with a lecturship at Sophia University in Tokyo. She currently teaches international management and is actively building her personal brand image as a lecturer, author and coach.
Her new homepage went online today.
Design & coding by Bento Graphics.
Metropolis Glitterball Party feat. Bento Live-Visuals
Metropolis “Japan’s No 1 English magazine” invited Bento Graphics to support their yearly Glitterball party with live-visuals. Fantastic live drawings by Shantell Martin. The party will be held on 14th February 2008 in Club Alife in Roppongi (Tokyo).
Details: www.metropolis.co.jp/glitterball
2008 Kick-off - Minimal Tokyo feat. Bento Visuals
Minimal Tokyo @ Liquid Loft on January 26, 2008 featuring Minimal Tokyo resident DJs and a Guest DJ:
SARAH GOLDFARB from France (Treibstoff / Dumb Unit / Roman, Photo);
Minimal Tokyo resident DJs: Tatsuya, Kuzbass, GLMN© and Shu Okuyama will play minimal techno, tech house and electro.
Visuals by: Bento, Shantell Martin, MOA and Trembl.
Starts 11:45 pm until 6:00 am;
entrance is Y2000 with flier and Y2500 without flier.
For reduced entrance fee you can also send me an email.
Hope to see you there!
Oldies but goldies…
I felt like I should at least place a link here to my outdated site, which can serve as an archive. Some pretty interesting study projects can be found too. Enjoy!
News
Parissa Haghirian Homepage coming soon!
Parissa Haghirian is an Austrian professor with a lecturship at Sophia University in Tokyo.
She currently teaches international management and is actively building her personal brand image as a lecturer, author and coach.
There is still more in store for early 2008, two more websites will be launched,
one BIG, one small.
Design Tide feat. Bento Visuals
As part of the Minimal Tokyo team I will be performing live visuals at the official Design Tide party
…the largest and the most important design festival in Japan…
in Unit Daikanyama. Design Tide is a once a year Tokyo-wide design event, with several main exhibitions and many supporting galleries and design events. Design Tide will be from 31th October - 4th November 2007.
You are cordially invited to join & enjoy our event at Unit Daikanyama
on 2th November 2007, from 11pm to 6am.
For discounted tickets mail me (2000¥ instead of 3500¥)!
EBergman.com launched
The new site for Eliot Bergman is online. A Wordpress powered
CMS site with integrated thumbnail and slide-show view of
portfolio pages.
The new project will soon be listed with a full description and images
Tokyo Art Beat Anniversay feat. Bento Visuals
Our friends from Tokyo Art Beat, a free and highly respectable art and design listing for Tokyo celebrating their 3 anniversay. Minimal Tokyo was invited to support the event with sound and visuals. I will be perfoming a set of live visuals. You are cordially invited to join & enjoy our event. Looking forward to seeing you there!
The event will be held at Superdeluxe on 13.October 2007, from 7pm to 2am.
Bento Graphics Revamped
This is still the ‘Beta’ version of my new website. Please disregard any design/techincal flaws for the time being. I hope to finish the ‘brush up’ of this site by the end of this month. Also, there are many more old and new projects which will be added to this site over the next month. Please check back, to find out more about my work.
B.T.
