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Today this box became a great belated birthday gift. Called MeBox, it appears to be made for magazines and other stuff, but also happens to fit records just perfectly! It was about time to find a replacement to some of my beautiful but deteriorating Readymade shopping bags (wonder if Konishi-san still has spares?), and this is it!
The cool feature about these is that the front has a grid of 11x7 removable dots, which can be used to mark it with your own design!

The box' instructions do say that it's made to hold up to 10Kg, so it's a bit at your own risk to fill its 42cm depth with records (can fit about 100, which may weigh 25Kg), but so far no bad surprise when lifting it.

I found no info on the Web about these, so they must be new. They're made by Leadworks of Entrex Inc. (Japan), and they're sold at least at the interior shop at Nakano Broadway B1F. :)

I could tell you what my dotted design says, but I'd prefer to wait and see who will figure it out first. :)

Posted on August 7, 2005 at 22:52 | Tweet |

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和モノ
...though technically I think the kana should enter the kana in half-width.

Posted by Brad on August 8, 2005 at 06:54

Good!!

The kana could have fit in full-height (and about half-width) but there'd be no more space between the characters, making it much less readable. So I tried to image a square kana block, like this: ㌐ (which may not show up on some computers)

If you have something else in mind I'd sure like to see it. These are my templates.
http://www.chipple.net/mt/archives/20050808mybox_blank.png
http://www.chipple.net/mt/archives/20050808mybox_filled.png

Posted by Patrick on August 8, 2005 at 07:03

I first guessed 和モノ but then I thought "why would you write that on your box?" so I sat there trying to figure out what else it could be.

Posted by Roy on August 8, 2005 at 23:51

Yeah it may not be too obvious. While being used in all sorts of contexts to mean Japanese stuff, at least club DJs use it to refer to Shōwa-era kayōkyoku and such.
My box contains a lot of more recent stuff though, but still only by Japanese artists.

Posted by Patrick on August 9, 2005 at 07:00

I guess you mean MeBox:
http://www.mebox.co.uk/

We were in contact with them some time ago to become Swedish retailors, but the boxes are quite expensive so it never happend.

Posted by Jesper on August 10, 2005 at 02:23

Whoa! Ok so it's just distributed in Japan by that company I said (which appears only on the price tag, and I could find no URL or such info on the box).

Here MeBox sells for a fixed price of ¥1500+tx, which isn't too bad compared to similar bland boxes at Muji. That's also about the same price as Readymade record boxes, or half the price of the DMR or Tower Records plastic ones.
http://www.readymade.co.jp/shopping/shop_contents.html#gs11
http://www.dmr.co.jp/index/info/container/container.html
http://www.towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CSfCardMain.jsp?GOODS_NO=870636&GOODS_SORT_CD=105

The worse thing is that I wasted time to make my template while there was a Flash one on the official site. :)

Posted by Patrick on August 10, 2005 at 06:58

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