About PingMag

[NOTICE] As of December 31, 2008, PingMag and sister site PingMag MAKE are both on extended hiatus, and will not be updated for the foreseeable future. We are eternally grateful for your fantastic support over the years.

PingMag in one word: Inspiration.

PingMag in one sentence: About Design and Making Things!

PingMag in detail: PingMag is an online design magazine based in Tokyo. Defining the term design as broadly as we can, PingMag writes about ideas and inspiration coming from both world class designers, and from the little store on the corner. We look at everything; product design, packaging, architecture, web design, typography, illustration, photography, fashion, programming, graphics, video, art, toys, traditional crafts, graffiti, set design…. anything, in fact, that we consider inspiring and we think will excite you too.

We’re sure that there is so much to be learnt from both the very big fish, and from the amazing local artist you’ve never heard about before. And a rapidly growing readership proves that we can’t be too wrong! Design is unlimited. It can be found in anything, anywhere, anytime. PingMag has the honor to spend time finding those treasures and talking to those people who put love and thought into creating.

Enjoy our daily surprises!

Ping Producer

PingMag Full-Time Staff

PingMag MAKE

Takafumi Suzuki

PingMag MAKE Translator

Claire Tanaka

Ping Freelance Translators

Yuki Sakai, Yuka Tero, Mie Hashizume

Ping Freelance Proof Readers

Brian Edmonds, Diane Yzaguirre

Current Ping Interns

Ayana Watanabe, Tetsuya Hiramoto, Blair McBride

PingContributors (in chronological order)

Uleshka is the mother of PingMag that thrived so lovingly under her intense care! Though she is no longer with us, she will always be very closely connected to everything Ping related…

Jon Yongfook Cockle - multitasking Design Engineer
Jon kept the engines turning over from the very beginning. Apart from writing super-popular geeky articles, he was the one to customise the unique Ping look.

Noriko Vincent (Tokyo) Writer, planner at Yes! Communications, Inc.

Kyoko (L.A.) She used to be the right hand and heart of PingMag.

Ryoko Yamashita: From kimono to Sonic Youth, chopsticks to flying fish — she has been on the case as Ping editor for more than two years!

Michael Chu - Designer
Thanks to Mike, we all enjoy our PingMag-look!

Reto Wettach (Berlin) interface researcher, professor and writer

KNYM (Tokyo) Universal Tester, web designer

Melanie (Amsterdam) photographer

Yoco Hanai (Tokyo) writer Japanese Arts&Crafts

Nakazawa Shinsuke (Tokyo) programmer and ’sempai’

Richi Wallett (London) photographer

Tom Fryer (Tokyo) student and explorer

Simon Faithfull (Berlin/London) artist

Kaori Nishida (Tokyo) writer, event organizer and PingProjects

Jean Snow (Tokyo) writer

Ian Lynam (Tokyo) graphic designer, writer

Heather Lorusso (Tokyo) ex-graphic-designer hooked on arts&crafts

Adam DuShole (Tokyo) writer and illustrator

James Bowskill (Tokyo) web designer, accessibility and blogging

Mayalina (London) publisher and writer

Matt Sinclair (Helsinki) product design engineering

Yuki Harada (Tokyo) freelancer, also editor of Public Image.

Kyoko Kurashima (Tokyo) loving mother

Takashi Maekawa (Tokyo) experimental-programming-master

Ashley Rawlings (Tokyo) TAB editor, photographer, writer

Chihiro Murakami (Tokyo) graphic designer and writer

Jan Chipchase (Tokyo) researcher

Michael Sheetal (Tokyo) web developer

Mini Sidi Ali (Geneva) journalist and photographer

Behrouz Hariri (Toronto & Tehran) graphic designer

Bianca Beuttel (Tokyo) product designer and researcher

Akiko Watanabe (Berlin) a freelance art / design projects coordinator, publishing coordinator and editor. Also represents an independent publisher Unagi Books.

Rebecca Milner (Tokyo) writer and trend researcher

Leslie Kuo (Berlin) graphic designer and photographer

Jacqueline Felber (Tel Aviv) designer & founder of Infoboom.com.

Paavani Bishnoi (India) is toy Designer by education, interested in culture and has lived in small towns to the metropolis of India. Loves photography and blogging other than spending time with family.

Vicente Guiterez (Tokyo) is a freelance writer and editor in T.

Aroldo Cardoso Jr. (Sao Paulo) hopes to change the world with love and culture.

Martin Holtkamp (Tokyo) is the superb photographer of sensitive portraits. See his works on a funky ironsmith or flashy watches for more.

Tim Rudder, photographer in Tokyo: our man to brush up extravagant street lamps or sensational architecture!

PingMag Photographers

Maris Mezulis (Paris)

Sean Wood (Tokyo)

Shigeki Matsushita (Tokyo)

Jim O’Connell (Tokyo)

Ryuichiro Louis Iijima (Tokyo)

Notice

As of December 31, 2008, PingMag and sister site PingMag MAKE are both on extended hiatus, and will not be updated for the foreseeable future. We are eternally grateful for your fantastic support over the years.

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