Signal of the week

Packaging · 17 stories, +13 vs last week

Packaging: 17 stories in seven days, +13 on the week before.

CMF's Milk-Carton-Inspired Affordable Portable Speaker Core77

Memobottle's Easy-to-Clean Water Bottle Lid Design Core77

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Core77Combining 3D Printing with Weaving Amsterdam-based Joram de Haas calls himself an industrial and computational designer. His FilaLoom project, done as his Master's thesis in Integrated Product Design at TU Delft, combines 3D printing…

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Core77CMF's Milk-Carton-Inspired Affordable Portable Speaker This eye-catching Speaker S is by CMF, a spin-off brand from UK electronics company Nothing. The portable Bluetooth speaker's from was "Inspired by the sharp geometry of a milk carton," CMF writes…

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Core77Maya Barkai's "Walking Men" Public Art Installations Since 2009, NYC-based photographer Maya Barkai has been exhibiting Walking Men , a traveling public art project.

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AdGangJapan100年以上続く笑顔を封印 The Laughing CowのユーモアあふれるPR施策チーズブランドのThe Laughing Cowが、ブランドを象徴する牛の笑顔を一部の商品パッケージから消す大胆なPR施策を展開しました。 1921年の誕生以来、笑顔の赤い牛をブランドの顔としてきたThe Laughing Cow。今回、一部の商品パッケージでは牛が真剣な表情に変わり、「The Not Laughing Cow」と表示。

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Yanko DesignNothing’s Ear (open) should have been a CMF product all along… Here’s proof I’ll say it: Nothing launched the Ear (open) under the wrong logo. The open-ear buds debuted in 2024 at $149, wrapped in Nothing’s signature transparent look, and they were good enough to win a Red…

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World Landscape ArchitectureLocal and International teams shortlisted for Bays West Design Competition The NSW Government has announced the teams for the Bays West Design Competition, which seeks to create Sydney’s newest waterfront suburb, including thousands of new homes close to jobs, transport and…

10.19

Yanko DesignThe Tinde Tiny House Gives Its Covered Porch a Dramatic A-Frame Roof The Tinde’s most distinctive space sits outside its front door. A steeply pitched roof stretches over a generous covered porch, giving this tiny house the entrance of a woodland cabin.

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Yanko DesignThis Minimalist Bamboo Coffee Table Hides Everyday Clutter in Plain Sight A coffee table usually has a fairly straightforward job: hold a cup of coffee, a few books, and whatever else happens to accumulate in the living room.

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Casa BrutusJapanクッションのような快適な座り心地。新居猛がデザインした日本発の名作椅子。 October 20, 2026 | 今日の逸品 | casabrutus.com『折りたたんでも美しい。名作フォールディングチェア10選。』より | supervisor&text_Tomomi Nagayama editor_Naoki Nakajima カーサブルータスの人気企画「10選」シリーズから、こだわりの逸品をジャンルレスに日替わりでご紹介します。

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo

One letter a week, starting soon.

Signal of the week

Packaging: 17 stories in seven days, +13 on the week before.

CMF's Milk-Carton-Inspired Affordable Portable Speaker Core77

Memobottle's Easy-to-Clean Water Bottle Lid Design Core77

Latest

Core77Combining 3D Printing with Weaving Amsterdam-based Joram de Haas calls himself an industrial and computational designer. His FilaLoom project, done as his Master's thesis in Integrated Product Design at TU Delft, combines 3D printing…

Core77CMF's Milk-Carton-Inspired Affordable Portable Speaker This eye-catching Speaker S is by CMF, a spin-off brand from UK electronics company Nothing. The portable Bluetooth speaker's from was "Inspired by the sharp geometry of a milk carton," CMF writes…

Core77Maya Barkai's "Walking Men" Public Art Installations Since 2009, NYC-based photographer Maya Barkai has been exhibiting Walking Men , a traveling public art project.

Yanko DesignNothing’s Ear (open) should have been a CMF product all along… Here’s proof I’ll say it: Nothing launched the Ear (open) under the wrong logo. The open-ear buds debuted in 2024 at $149, wrapped in Nothing’s signature transparent look, and they were good enough to win a Red…

Yanko DesignThe Tinde Tiny House Gives Its Covered Porch a Dramatic A-Frame Roof The Tinde’s most distinctive space sits outside its front door. A steeply pitched roof stretches over a generous covered porch, giving this tiny house the entrance of a woodland cabin.

TypewolfDaylight

TypewolfHeart & Soil

TypewolfDirty Vine

Yanko DesignThis Minimalist Bamboo Coffee Table Hides Everyday Clutter in Plain Sight A coffee table usually has a fairly straightforward job: hold a cup of coffee, a few books, and whatever else happens to accumulate in the living room.