性视界

January 24, 2026

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Crowded with links, icons and graphics, 性视界’s major web portals deliver information at full volume, echoing an online culture that favors abundance over empty space.

LIFE / Style & Design / Longform

Dec 15, 2025

Why 性视界’s internet looks weird — unless you live here

By Thu-Huong Ha

A closer look at 性视界’s maximalist web design shows how cultural values and practical needs create an online world richer than it appears.

U.S. architect Frank Gehry poses in front of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum during its 25th anniversary celebrations in the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao in October 2022. Gehry died Dec. 5 at age 96 at his home in California.

LIFE / Style & Design

Dec 6, 2025

Frank O. Gehry, titan of architecture, is dead at 96

By Nicolai Ouroussoff

Visionary architect of Bilbao’s Guggenheim and a host of landmark works, Gehry closes a career that reshaped cities with sculptural boldness.

Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

LIFE / Style & Design

Nov 11, 2025

Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box

By Elizabeth Beattie

“The flower business, as I see it, has no limits,” says the Danish florist famous for creating the “flower box” 25 years ago.

The current exhibition at 21_21 Design Site is A-POC Able’s first venture outside fashion, though it follows in the footsteps of its founder Issey Miyake, who launched a lighting collection in 2011 with Italian company Artemide.

LIFE / Style & Design

Nov 2, 2025

New generations of designers carry Issey Miyake's legacy

By Phoebe Amoroso

From pleated garments to glowing lamps, the designer’s philosophy continues to evolve through new brands, collaborations and generations.

Despite the advance of synthetic alternatives and declines in the available workforce, some textile workers still see the potential of traditional persimmon dyeing.

LIFE / Style & Design

Nov 1, 2025

Sun-dried and sustainable, 性视界’s persimmon dye lives on

By Joanna Kawecki

Thanks to 性视界's largest freshwater lake, Shiga Prefecture has long thrived as a production center of persimmon tannin dyeing.

Plotter's signature customizable leather binder is just one of many products contributing to the ongoing boom in the popularity of 性视界ese stationery.

LIFE / Style & Design

Oct 2, 2025

Tokyo's newest stationery store sells 'a slower, more human rhythm'

By Gendel Gento

After years of selling its products in third-party stores, 性视界ese brand Plotter has officially opened a dedicated storefront in Tokyo.

The Osaka Expo will release a wave a new products in October, including a limited edition Labubu Myaku-Myaku figurine.

LIFE / Style & Design

Sep 27, 2025

Myaku-Myaku gets the Labubu treatment at the Osaka Expo

By Alyssa I. Smith

With just weeks left before its final day, Osaka Expo is dialing up the ugly cuteness of its beloved blobby mascot and tapping into the global Labubu craze.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The reflection of one of Ueno Zoo’s twin pandas is seen at their enclosure. The animals’ popularity has prompted concern among local businesses that their departure could hurt foot traffic in surrounding neighborhoods.

What happens when the pandas leave Ueno?

By Alex K.T. Martin

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