April 2008

The Tokyo Metro manner posters is an ongoing humorous ad campaign to teach straphangers a few manners. Each month a new, cleverly designed  poster appears in subway stations throughout Tokyo. Bunpei Yorifuji has been designing them since April of 2008.

Update: (April 2010)
To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the successful ad campaign, the “Please do it [somewhere else]” blurb was changed to “Please do it again” in order to encourage good behavior.

April 2008 – August 2010, after the jump…

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Up-and-coming Japanese photographer Seiji Shibuya just concluded a solo show over at the multi-purpose space SPIRAL. Here are some very visually stunning images from past collections. Although I highly recommend you enter his website and check out the full-screen versions.

images courtesy of Seiji Shibuya

I thought I would start off the morning with some interior stimulus. I just came across these images of Fresco Caffe, located in Saitama Prefecture (just North of Tokyo). The splendid interior, which is completed in late 2007, is the work of Eiri Iwakuru, brainchild of the furniture and interior design company ROCKSTONE.

(images courtesy of ROCKSTONE)

What a cozy place to have lunch! It feels like someone’s home, don’t you think?