sdmart.org/art/ exhibit/dreams-diversions. As recently as 1970, the San Diego Museum of Art didn’t have a very high opinion of its collection of Japanese woodblock ...

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in ...

According to the fiscal 2020 white paper on forests and the forestry industry published by the Forestry Agency, the value of Japan’s wood exports in 2020 increased year on year by 3%, to ¥35.7 billion ...

Lucasfilm is teaming up with Run’a, a Japanese curio manufacturer, to create traditional woodblock prints featuring the beloved characters of Star Wars giving the sci-fi film enterprise a touch of a ...

TOKYO -- As a part of its efforts to decarbonize, Yamaha Motor Company has started using wood-derived cellulose nanofibers (CNF) in place of some plastic parts in its watercraft. The company began ...

A joint venture between Japan's Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University could result in the first use of wood as a satellite building material. Using wood for satellite construction could reduce the ...

In this short video I share one of my favorite moments in the workshop watching a hand cut Japanese style wood joint come ...

When you walk through a fresh clearcut in British Columbia, you are surrounded by a “one-dimensional, dead landscape,” says Michelle Connolly of Conservation North, a volunteer conservation group ...

It wasn't too long ago that tattoos were considered to be taboo in the United States (and no I did not intend that rhyme, but it's staying). The only people in America who got tattoos were people who ...

A particular ennui arises when you’re separated from the natural world, and the problem seems to grow more intractable by the day. But despondent urbanites might soon be able to reinvigorate that lost ...