Signal of the week

Rebrand / refresh · 12 stories, +9 vs last week

Rebrand / refresh: 12 stories in seven days, +9 on the week before.

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Yanko Design5 Japanese Everyday Designs That Fix Familiar Frustrations A notebook that won’t let you move a page. A charging cable that sticks straight into your palm. Keys that disappear between coming home and leaving again.

10.18

Yanko DesignThis Norwegian Sauna Turns Reclaimed Timber Into a Ship-Inspired Waterfront Shelter Nineteen timber frames lean toward the harbor at Båtsfjord, Norway, giving Skroget the skeletal outline of a boat under construction.

10.18

Web DesigningJapanSalesforceが11月に東京でAIイベント開催、問い合わせや購買体験の活用事例を紹介 Web Designing記者が、Webに携わる人向けにニュースをピックアップ。話題の本質を整理し、実務に役立つポイントをコンパクトにまとめました。イベントは11月18日・19日の2日間、東京の会場とオンライン配信で開催されます株式会社セールスフォース・ジャパンは11月18日・19日、AI活用をテーマとするイベント「AIforce World Tour Tokyo」をザ・プリンス…

10.18

Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-13-26 to 10-16-26) Here's what we looked at this week: To build a low-cost EV, Citröen dusts off the 2CV. ID firm Layer develops corrugated plywood that's strong and lightweight. Poka-yoke: Idiot-proof design.

10.18

Core77The International Lineman's Rodeo: The Olympics for Lineworkers In a fairground in Kansas this week, a number of utility poles have been sunk into a field. This is for the International Lineman's Rodeo & Expo , an annual competition where the folks who keep…

10.18

Core77Tesla Unveils Bonkers Flying Car Last night in Texas, Tesla assembled group of fans, influencers and journalists to witness the unveiling of their new Roadster . "We need an audience to prove that it's not AI," Elon Musk said.

10.18

Yanko DesignThe Lamborghini Miura Fountain Pen has a pop-up headlight built right into the cap Pop-up headlights were the original fidget toy, and anyone who grew up with a Miata in the family knows it.

10.18

World Landscape ArchitectureD-PREP International School | Landscape Tectonix D-PREP International School represents a new paradigm in the institutional landscape, in which education is envisioned as a high-performance ecosystem.

10.18

Elle DecorELLE Decor Checks In: Le Grand Mazarin The Martin Brudnizki-designed retreat is like an art museum—with croissants.

10.18

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

Rebrand / refresh: 12 stories in seven days, +9 on the week before.

A New Identity for New Energy LogoLounge

Apple Music’s ‘miserable’ new logo is giving mixed messages Creative Bloq

Latest

Yanko Design5 Japanese Everyday Designs That Fix Familiar Frustrations A notebook that won’t let you move a page. A charging cable that sticks straight into your palm. Keys that disappear between coming home and leaving again.

Yanko DesignThis Norwegian Sauna Turns Reclaimed Timber Into a Ship-Inspired Waterfront Shelter Nineteen timber frames lean toward the harbor at Båtsfjord, Norway, giving Skroget the skeletal outline of a boat under construction.

Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-13-26 to 10-16-26) Here's what we looked at this week: To build a low-cost EV, Citröen dusts off the 2CV. ID firm Layer develops corrugated plywood that's strong and lightweight. Poka-yoke: Idiot-proof design.

Core77The International Lineman's Rodeo: The Olympics for Lineworkers In a fairground in Kansas this week, a number of utility poles have been sunk into a field. This is for the International Lineman's Rodeo & Expo , an annual competition where the folks who keep…

Core77Tesla Unveils Bonkers Flying Car Last night in Texas, Tesla assembled group of fans, influencers and journalists to witness the unveiling of their new Roadster . "We need an audience to prove that it's not AI," Elon Musk said.

Yanko DesignThe Lamborghini Miura Fountain Pen has a pop-up headlight built right into the cap Pop-up headlights were the original fidget toy, and anyone who grew up with a Miata in the family knows it.

World Landscape ArchitectureD-PREP International School | Landscape Tectonix D-PREP International School represents a new paradigm in the institutional landscape, in which education is envisioned as a high-performance ecosystem.

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Elle DecorELLE Decor Checks In: Le Grand Mazarin The Martin Brudnizki-designed retreat is like an art museum—with croissants.