+ Akemi Tanaka's convertible wooden furniture, like the Tagei coffee table pictured above, is both stylish and space saving, a winning combination. Via JoshSpear.com.

+ A winner of the 2008 iF product design award, the TUBELOR trash can from Ideaco carefully hides the typical grocery store vinyl bags used within.

+ Sota Suzuki, an exhibition designer who has been providing spatial art direction for other design exhibitions (including Tokyo Design Week's DesignTide), now gets his own show, "Light Shore," at Gallery Rocket in Aoyama, February 5-16. JS