Bento Graphics is in progress of re-designing the SKM website. SKM provides various facility services for Toyota.
Old:
New:
This week the well known real estate site TokyoApartment.com was released. Bento Graphics provided a re-design including a fresh new visual identity, site concept, graphic design, XHTML/CSS for templates as well as Wordpress CMS set-up for one part of the site. Also 3 other separate sites were incorporated into this major real estate portal site.
Please take a look here: www.tokyoapartment.com
A project description was added to the portfolio section, here:
The new homepage of British product designer Marianne Bailey has been launched. Visit her new site here: http://mariannebailey.com
Marianne Bailey used to work at Factorydesign (London) and currently works for the Yamaha Product design laboratory in Japan. Her work is on display from 25th July 2008 - 31th August 2008 at the “au design project & Yamaha” exhibition at the KDDI Design Center in Tokyo.
Read more about this project in my portfolio section:
http://bentographics.com/portfolio/web/marianne-bailey/
I won`t be performing live-visuals this time, however for a place on the discount list (¥2500) you can still send me a mail: bentographics@gmail.com
June 13th, 2008, Friday
11:00 pm - 5:00 am
Cover Charge:
¥4000, ¥3500 with flyer / WOMB members,
¥3000 Clubberia members
More info: www.minimaltokyo.com
The Minimal Tokyo crew will team up with Organza for a minimal
techno night at legendary Tokyo club Womb. On the main floor,
Organza resident DJs Pi-Ge and Taro Sugawara will be joined by
Spanish Techno virtuosi Alex Under and Tadeo, accompanied
by visuals from Minimal Tokyo resident VJ Spielfilm.
Minimal Tokyo will take over the 1st floor lounge, where resident
DJs Tatsuya, Ivan Kuzbass, Shu Okuyama (Milnormodern, Minimood)
and GLMN(c) will join forces Valentino de Bronff (Minimood) to play
cutting edge minimal techno, deep and tech house.
Minimal Tokyoがあの Womb のミニマル・テクノナイトでDJします!
メインフロアーでは、OrganzaレジデントDJ、 Pi-Ge と Taro Sugawara が
スペインからのゲスト Alex Under と Tadeo 共にスピン、そしてMinimal
TokyoのレジデントVJ、SpielfilmもVJします! そして、一階はMinimal
TokyoレジデントDJs (Tatsuya、Ivan Kuzbass、Shu Okuyama 、
GLMN、そして MinimoodからValentino de Bronff )によオーガナイズ。
オールナイトでカッティングエッジなミニマルテクノ、ディープハウス、
テックハウスをプレイします。
Two sites I am working on right now. YMS Language School www.ymss.com and ZAP Associates: www.zapassoc.com. Both are run on the Wordpress CMS. Will post more details once everything is said & done.
I added a photo page to this site. Flickr re-activated. To see more click on one of the images. Enjoy!

I will be performing live visuals back to back with Max Hattler and Robert Seidel on their Japan tour in Roots (club), Kobe on Friday 23th May 2006. Details: ¥2500 w1d + free buffet. Cafe Spark, 1F 3-2-1 Nunobiki-cho Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo.

Please be invited to the next Minimal Tokyo party on 10th May 2008 at Liquidroom - Loft
Live music set by SALMON (Karmarouge Noir / Raum…musik / WC Recordings) meets live visuals by MAX HATTLER (UK) and ROBERT SEIDEL (Germany).
Guest DJ: YOSHIKI (op.disk, Torema Recordings);
Minimal Tokyo resident DJs Tatsuya, Ivan Kuzbass, GLMN© and Shu Okuyama will play minimal techno, tech house and electro. Visuals are by Bento and MOA.
Starts 24:00 until 6:00 am; entrance is ¥2000 with flier and ¥2500 without flyer. For ¥1500 discount list, mail me
Gozi Ochonogor is a Nigerian fashion designer based in Tokyo. “She started designing her own clothes while still studying, selling them at west London’s Portobello Market and acquiring several retail customers in Paris and Japan.”
Please take look at her new homepage here: www.gozi.co.uk

My dear good friend Max Hattler and his sidekick Robert Seidel, both award-winning film makers, animators and VJs launching a Japan tour from 21. April - 28. May 2008. They will be roaming the streets of Tokyo till 10th of May, with several scheduled VJ-events, screenings and talks. After the 10th May they will continue their tour in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kobe etc). I will partly join them on their tour and perform live-visuals back to back with them at Roots Club / Café Spark in Kobe on the 23th May 2008.
On 23th April will be the in-official tour launch party in club Le Baron (Tokyo) with live visuals by Max Hattler, Rober Seidel as well as moi and others. This event is guest only. Below are a few other events they are participating in Tokyo:
Please download and spread their official press release (PDF) here:
PRESS-RELEASE_Hattler-Seidel_Japan-Tour-2008.pdf
Download the official tour flyer here:
maxhattler_robertseidel_japantour2008.pdf
A new portfolio project is online: the business cards design for WA-Associates. There will be more to be heard of WA-Associates this year. Possibly another website and other print materials upcoming.
By the way:
I slightly changed the layout of this site to make more room for the actual content. Site-headers are a thing of the past ;) All headlines on this site now use sIFR in order to make this site more accessible. sIFR allows the usage of other fonts apart from the operating system fonts. I might use this technology more often for other upcoming websites too. Also, I placed a QR-code on my contact page, which is hugely popular in Japan and can be found on nearly every product or flyer. QR-codes can be scanned i.e. by mobile phones to access data about products or services including address details. Finally, from now you should be able to access this site via your mobile phone too.
The new homepage for IkonMedia will be released shortly.
IkonMedia is run by Andy J. Taylor and provides photography and journalistic writing services.
Parissa Haghirian is an Austrian professor with a lecturship at Sophia University in Tokyo. She currently teaches international management and is actively building her personal brand image as a lecturer, author and coach.
Her new homepage went online today.
Design & coding by Bento Graphics.
Metropolis “Japan’s No 1 English magazine” invited Bento Graphics to support their yearly Glitterball party with live-visuals. Fantastic live drawings by Shantell Martin. The party will be held on 14th February 2008 in Club Alife in Roppongi (Tokyo).
Details: www.metropolis.co.jp/glitterball
Minimal Tokyo @ Liquid Loft on January 26, 2008 featuring Minimal Tokyo resident DJs and a Guest DJ:
SARAH GOLDFARB from France (Treibstoff / Dumb Unit / Roman, Photo);
Minimal Tokyo resident DJs: Tatsuya, Kuzbass, GLMN© and Shu Okuyama will play minimal techno, tech house and electro.
Visuals by: Bento, Shantell Martin, MOA and Trembl.
Starts 11:45 pm until 6:00 am;
entrance is Y2000 with flier and Y2500 without flier.
For reduced entrance fee you can also send me an email.
Hope to see you there!
I felt like I should at least place a link here to my outdated site, which can serve as an archive. Some pretty interesting study projects can be found too. Enjoy!
Parissa Haghirian Homepage coming soon!
Parissa Haghirian is an Austrian professor with a lecturship at Sophia University in Tokyo.
She currently teaches international management and is actively building her personal brand image as a lecturer, author and coach.
There is still more in store for early 2008, two more websites will be launched,
one BIG, one small.
As part of the Minimal Tokyo team I will be performing live visuals at the official Design Tide party
…the largest and the most important design festival in Japan…
in Unit Daikanyama. Design Tide is a once a year Tokyo-wide design event, with several main exhibitions and many supporting galleries and design events. Design Tide will be from 31th October - 4th November 2007.
You are cordially invited to join & enjoy our event at Unit Daikanyama
on 2th November 2007, from 11pm to 6am.
For discounted tickets mail me (2000¥ instead of 3500¥)!
The new site for Eliot Bergman is online. A Wordpress powered
CMS site with integrated thumbnail and slide-show view of
portfolio pages.
The new project will soon be listed with a full description and images
Our friends from Tokyo Art Beat, a free and highly respectable art and design listing for Tokyo celebrating their 3 anniversay. Minimal Tokyo was invited to support the event with sound and visuals. I will be perfoming a set of live visuals. You are cordially invited to join & enjoy our event. Looking forward to seeing you there!
The event will be held at Superdeluxe on 13.October 2007, from 7pm to 2am.
This is still the ‘Beta’ version of my new website. Please disregard any design/techincal flaws for the time being. I hope to finish the ‘brush up’ of this site by the end of this month. Also, there are many more old and new projects which will be added to this site over the next month. Please check back, to find out more about my work.
B.T.