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This is what Saturday mornings look like round here

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Don’t get me wrong, I love Japanese food. I eat it nearly every day. But when you haven’t been brought up in a rice culture. every now and then you crave something else.

We live in a tiny apartment here in Kyoto – far too small to dry our washing, so once or twice a week we pedal off to the launderette to get everything dried. And while our clothes are swirling around in the giant metal tumblers, we have the perfect excuse to spend 30 minutes across the road in Le Petit Mec, a patisserie so continental you’d think you were in Paris.

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Born in Paris, read everywhere – MOYO one week on

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Paris

Going to Paris with Rachael Taylor in February was always going to be a good idea. Getting industry insight from the Indigo and Premier Vision trade shows, striking a deal with Stylesight to give our students access to some of the best trend advice in the world, taking hundreds of photos for the blog, ‘comp shopping’ in Paris’s chic stationery shops, brainstorming over café au lait in the day, and vin rouge in the evening… But in hindsight one of the best things that actually came out of that trip was a brainwave we had sat on the plane as it took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport.

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Why we did this

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Stride -Paul K

As we come to the end of our time here in Japan (only three weeks left!) I have been thinking about our reasons for coming here.

Spending six months in Japan is expensive. It’s an upheaval. And if you are studying Japanese like my man, you even get grammar tests. So why did we do this?

Because we had slipped into too much routine and needed to shake things up.

Because my man wanted to know this place that was so special to me.

Because we wanted to share a big adventure.

Because we could.

But mainly because it sounded like a good idea at the time.

And it absolutely was.

What kind of adventure sounds like a good idea to you right now?

New surface pattern design magazine launched! Welcome to MOYO…

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New surface pattern design magazine launched! Welcome to MOYO... Moyo 550 Blue

Today is a special day in the design industry… it sees the launch of MOYO, the world’s first online magazine dedicated to surface pattern design! Packed with interviews, design briefs, colour challenges, art reviews, student showcases, design tips, inspiration, trends and more, this free resource will be published quarterly, and you can read and download the inaugural issue here!

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