Muji Comes to America; Michael Bierut No Longer Needs to Fly to Tokyo For His Fix

We can finally end our letter-writing campaign to Sam Hecht; today, the retail stars have aligned. Muji‘s first US flagship store has been announced as a tenant in the Renzo Piano-designed New York Times building, says the New York Observer. But it sounds like we won’t be the only ones camped out on the sidewalk before the grand opening:

“Finally, a flagship Muji store in midtown,” said acclaimed New York graphic designer Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram, who has designed the wayfinding system in the new Times tower.