When Edgar the Elephant, Wallace the Whale and Bradford the Bird made their grand entrance at the last Fragment event we knew that they were too much funky fun to let go. So with the slick guidance of Pancake Zoo caretaker Shawn Chen, we built a little home for them here at TOKYOMADE.







Shawn and his crew of critters have come to settle in Tokyo after being on tour in Melbourne, Australia. Popular with the street style lovers down under, the Pancake Zoo pieces can be found in independent boutiques in Melbourne and now on TOKYOMADE.




Each piece has been lovingly hand created by Shawn in his bedroom. Cast out of polyurethane with a metal finding attached to the back. Preferring to hang out on clothes, bags, and maybe even hats, they need to go to good homes.





No feeding or watering required.

We are big fans of acrylic and resin here at TOKYOMADE. Designers such as Lissita, Honey Bunny, BLITZ Kiss and Tiny Azure rock our world with their unique use of the alluring epoxy. After receiving a super cool email from a TM friend today it seems there are plenty of other jelly lovers out there.

Glowing Doll is the name of an online shop and blog created by a super crafty, jelly loving designer in the UK who also happens to be a TOKYOMADE fan. Check out her posts about Fashionable Food, the over sized glasses trend and TM of course!

Thanks Danielle!

Please join us at BiZ NITE – Tokyo’s fastest growing networking event for creative business people - on Monday 18 August at Daikanyama Tableaux, 18:00-23:00… with a ‘Brazil Flavor’ to celebrate summer.

The venue has a beautiful patio, great food and reasonably priced drinks. In addition to our regular content, BiZ NITE will host presentations about contemporary Brazilian fashion and culture, and about Brazilian creative business people's activities in Japan. We expect around 250 people to attend community presentations and get-togethers in three spaces for people working in an A-Z of creative communities, including ad, art, DJ, design, eco, fashion, movie, music, net, sport, success, VJ, wellness industries.

Entry: Advance: 1000 yen / Door 1500 yen, (Buffet dinner from 1000yen, and specially priced drinks) (To qualify for advance, please sign up as a member at biznites.ning.com)

Biz Nites are held monthly on Mondays at Daikanyama Tableaux (http://www.tableaux.jp/en)

And don't miss UK SOUND (a monthly event) on Tuesdays @ Shibuya Hobgoblin (Free UK rock, pop and dance music crossover. 80s, 90s, 00s & new music DJ Party with DJ James Carstensen and guest DJ's). Next one: 8/26! Come down and say Hi.

Paper art is a tradition long treasured in Japan. The ancient Japanese art form of origami creates form and wonder using a small number of folds to create objects. In more recent times contemporary paper art forms have emerged in Japan.

At this year's Design Festa we were pleasantly surprised by the number of new paper craft artists, both Japanese and International, displaying their fine art.

Yasutaka Matsumoto stood out from the crowd with his quirky and solid paper and card characters. Matsumoto's booth displayed his outstanding ability to create personality filled figures from diversely patterned and colored paper.

The new style of Japanese toy or figurine. Unlike his vinyl play mates, the paper figurine is hand constructed using a multitude of patterned papers and card. Precise connection of the colors, papers and shapes creates the playful forms and personality filled figures.

Each paper toy is a one of a kind personality. Yasutaka Matsumoto constructs 3D figures and characters using Illus board, bond, clue and various craft papers.

Melbourne-based fashion blogger, Fashion Hayley spent a year in Tokyo styling, taking photos and creating the blog Fashion Hayley Hits Japan. Now that she is back in Melbourne, Australia she spends much of her time taking photos for MelbourneStreetFashion.com and writing a daily fashion blog about her thoughts on everything fashion. It also happens that Hayley and her partner Henry are in search of a new dream home in Melbourne. To add some spice to their house hunting we thought we would collaborate with Hayley and put the call out for global style lovers to design Hayley's Dream House. To add some sugar to the mix we thought it might be dandy to award some super kawaii prizes. Suddenly, the "Design Fashion Hayley's Dream House" competition was born!

What: Design "Fashion Hayley's Dream House"

How: Polyvore, Photoshop, Scanned in sketch....basically anything you want and then just email the entries to Hayley at lippierced1 at hotmail dot com

Time: The competition will run from TODAY until Sunday the 31st of August 7pm AEST with winners being announced on Monday the 1st of September.

Prizes: This is the exciting part, there will be 3 winners. Tokyomade's pick, Fashion Hayley's pick and a chosen winner. YAY.

Each KAWAII PRIZE PACK includes a toilet lid cover and mat which have the cute Engrish moto of "Let's spend the time of a toilet happily!" and a 12 pocket plastic wall pocket thing which are really handy for orgainising jewellery, CDs, overdue bills and love letters. YAY!

Check out the Fashion Hayley Hits Home blog for all the competition details. Open to all, we look forward to your stylish entries!

I do this little thing over at my personal blog, sushi zume, called Sharing the Love. It is basically a way of sharing a bunch of coolness and fun filled stuff in the one post, you know when there is just so much love flying around to be grateful for!

This week we have been very grateful to receive some lovely reviews and support from customers and bloggers around the globe. So we thought we would share the love that has been sent our way.

The week began with a super cool post from a crafty adventurer over at Super Eggplant. Thank you to Mariko over at Super Eggplant for a very lovely review of her TM experience. We are blushing! Thanks also for supporting Sidney Pink and Tiny Azure!

T-shirt Design and Trend blog Cottonable shared their love for Shojo no Tomo.

Today we received THE coolest email from Holly, who recently bought Sci Fi and Ken Scratch pieces.

Hello Masao and Deanne,

Holly x

Thanks so much Holly for your sweetness. We are super happy that you like your new necklaces!

Tokyomade is all about sharing the love and supporting independent design and creation in Japan. Thank you for sharing your love and supporting in your own way!

Art Below have made their way to the streets of Tokyo and are currently holding the first ever art exhibition in a Tokyo metro station. The exhibition starts today and will run until September 1st. Posters will be displayed on the Ginza Line platform.

Nani Bird creator, Josh 'MCKIBILLO' McKible is one of 15 artists who were selected to display their art in the Shibuya Station ticket hall. The exhibition is being covered by Dazed & Confused Magazine in Japan and in the UK as well as on-line at dazeddigital and PingMag.

Art Below started in London and has been successfully using ad space for art exhibitions for several years now. This is their first foray into Tokyo. Head to Shibuya station this week to check out Josh's creation featuring a Nani Bird as well as the 14 other pieces of art. Not going to be in the Shibuya area this week? You can take a sneaky peek at the artist greatness on show here.

From the French we use the word souvenir to describe a treasure or gift that is picked up as a memento or keepsake from a time spent in another country, state, space or area. In Japanese the gifts, keepsakes and edibles brought back from a trip away are known as omiyage.

On a trip to New York, designer of the Souvenir brand Emi Nagaoka stumbled upon the most fascinating pieces that she felt truly symbolized New York. Instead of hiding them away in a box or cupboard she decided to share her New York omiyage with the world. The Souvenir label is an eclectic mish mash of NYC treasures saved in over sized resin pendants. The concept of the brand is to share pieces and symbols from another city, New York City, with global style lovers and souvenir collectors.

Each hand made accessory is a one of a kind collection of antique keys, buttons, vintage cloth, lace and other trinkets collected over a lifetime of adventures in New York. All hand made in Japan.