Articles tagged with: Japan
Liquid Love
If this isn’t your first time stumbling across The Urban Grocer, then you’ll know we’ve got it bad for wine labels. Anything from Oz-based Mash makes us swoon, not to mention the creative team of …
Is That A Banana In Your Ear?
A true foodie sees a wonderful meal in unexpected places be it a street cart or a cityscape made of jello. Now, you can add ears to that list (and we’re not talking corn…). From …
Poteki!! Redefining the Chips Bowl
It’s really about time someone reinvented the chip bowl. Chips aren’t going out of style but dumping a mound of them into a steel bowl in the centre of the table seems a little too …
Turn Out the Lights! Fridgeezoo
We all need helpful little reminders sometimes, especially when it comes to being green. Can those reminders be annoying? Yeah, sometimes – we won’t deny it – but they don’t have to be. Sometimes, in …
Fishy Fashion: Hokke Case
Who needs the latest Chanel or Hermes when you can hold all your essentials in a grilled fish? Well, sort of. Thanks to the, er, clever folks at Japan’s Ito Manufacturing, you too can rock …
The Friday Five: Japanese Food Trends
We at The Urban Grocer are proud Japanophiles and who couldn’t be when the country gives us bottle cap basil, chocolate-dripping wallpaper, and LCD touch panel vending machines? This week’s Friday Five is all about …
Cover it Up! Switch Glass Covers, Japan
All of you design buffs out there, listen up. We’ve come across another killer find from the land of bottle-cap herb gardens, subterranean farms, and Cheshire cat pizza. That’s right, we’re talking about Japan. And …
Playful Plating
Paramodel is the creatively curious Japanese duo, Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano, who share the same parallel vision: constructing intricate models of ‘paradise’ using toy parts such as plastic train tracks and mini-cars. In the …
Bottle Cap Basil
You don’t have space for an herb garden, you say? Not anymore. Just grab a soda bottle, pop off the top, and voila! Your plot is ready for action. All you need now are some …
Down the Rabbit Hole: Alice in Magic World, Tokyo
Ever wished you could jump through your TV screen and live in the dreamy land of animated fairy tales? Well if you go to Tokyo, you can come pretty close – at least for the …
Connect With Us