DIY Pet Architecture

I found this fantastic book last weekend at Ariel:

pet architecture origami

Unable to read Japanese, any background to this publication remains mysterious. There are however two URLs in the book that lead to a small amount of information –
One points to some kind of baseball field/publishing house(?) the other to another publisher’s site. I think. Anyway, this is not important, other than to repeat the words we find here:

“What you see above isn’t a virtual-reality image created on a computer. It’s a ‘Fotomo’ — a three-dimensional object you can pick up and hold in your hand.”

Fans of Pet Architecture – Atelier Bow Wow’s study of Tokyo’s vernacular architecture – will find instant gratification here. It is essentially a do it yourself model making kit for that excellent piece of research. There are street scenes, tiny buildings, crowded corners, a photomart, vending machines.

So, Sunday night in front of the telly was spent making up a couple of the scenes. There are still a whole lot to make, so I might try to post more next week…

This link to the Japanese Amazon store will lead you to similar books in the series that you can buy.

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

pet architecture origami

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11 responses to “DIY Pet Architecture”

  1. Jacob Avatar
    Jacob

    The top line of red text explains fotomo succinctly: “photograph + model = fotomo”. The next line is something like “3D photos that streets jump out of”.

    Anyway, the title of this book is “Fotomo Streetcorners” and the author is Kimio Itozaki. itozaki.com is his website. The major headings there are event notices, blog updates, magazine serialiations, web links, books. “The Woald of FOTOMO” and “Phï½�ï½”ï½� Gï½�llery [Welcome to Planet 60x]” are both articles about his work in English, worth checking out.

    There is at least one more book in this series from the same publisher, フォトモã�®ç‰©ä»¶. Contains “Asakusa, Shibuya, Hong Kong, Trains, etc!”. There also look to be at least 2 more fotomo books out there…

  2. Jacob Avatar
    Jacob

    Oh, and searching amazon.co.jp for “糸崎 公朗” will turn up all of Itozaki’s books if shipping from Japan isn’t prohibitive. Here in the States it is rather pricy if you aren’t buying a lot of items at once.

    This is a great find, I’m going to search these out…

  3. Rory Avatar
    Rory

    Yeah great find Marcus. I like it how the camera perspective is built into the models – from memory bow wow play it straight with only axos.

  4. Marcus Trimble Avatar

    Thanks for the translations Jacob,
    I may have to track down some of the other books in the series…

  5. April Avatar
    April

    Hello, thank you for sharing the info. Can we order this book online?

  6. Sherine Harivandi Avatar

    Truly gorgeous! I, too, would like to know if I could have this book ordered and delivered in the states?

    Thank You,
    Sherine Harivandi

  7. Cynthia Avatar

    Super beautiful!

  8. Marcus Avatar

    Peoples,
    This link to the Japanese Amazon store will lead you to similar books in the series that you can buy. They deliver to Australia, so I guess they will deliver to the US too.

  9. kenn munk Avatar

    I saw this book at pro QM in Berlin, so if you happen to be around there, it’s a good place to snatch it up. unfortunately they have so much yummy stuff that it’ll ruin you.

  10. Aurélien Avatar

    KENN MUNK > Thx for the tipp I’ll go there to buy it. I was looking for it and couldn’t find it in Paris. I’m now in Berlin …

  11. jason Avatar

    we sell these on our website, http://verycoolthings.com

    Just search on fotomo

    $6.99 flat fee shipping in USA.

    Sorry for the ‘ad’!

    -Jason

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