Signal of the week

Packaging · 14 stories, +10 vs last week

Packaging: 14 stories in seven days, +10 on the week before.

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Core77Made in Search's Midcentury-esque Hearth Lamp This simple, elegant Hearth Lamp looks like a Midcentury Modern design that's turned up in some Danish thrift shop. But in fact it's a new object, by British homeware brand Made in Search .

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Core77Can You Guess How This Hollow Clock with Floating Hands Works? This Hollow Clock was designed by Shinsaku Hiura , an engineering professor at the University of Hyogo. It was then 3D printed and assembled by content creator MechDesign98 .

11.07

Core77Kate Schroder's Illuminated LED "Chandeliearrings" These chandeliearrings are by Kate Schroeder , a Missouri-based ceramic artist and jewelrymaker. They contain LEDs powered by LR41 button batteries, which provide about 30 hours of life (though the…

11.07

It's Nice ThatJay Anderson: “The next-generation designer will be increasingly hybrid” It’s a tough time for people starting out in the creative industry right now. Together with Creative Lives in Progress we asked 28 people to predict what starting a creative career will look like…

11.07

Yanko DesignDiden Spider Robot Climbs Steel Walls and Actually Welds Them A welding tool is only useful if you can get it to the seam. Inside a ship’s steel structure, that can mean bringing a worker, equipment, and a platform into position before the actual welding…

11.07

Yanko DesignA 26-Foot Tiny Home That Refuses to Go Beige The Brightside puts the kitchen beside the front door, so the first thing you encounter is a place to make dinner. That feels like a sensible starting point for a small home.

11.07

Dezeen InteriorsSABO Project "softens divisions" inside Manhattan apartment New York and Paris design studio SABO Project has introduced rounded partitions and bold green accents to a compact apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side .

11.07

PAGE onlineDesign feiern: PAGE verlost 3 × 2 Tickets für die FLYERALARM Design Award Gala Gutes Design kann mehr als gut aussehen. Es kann Aufmerksamkeit schaffen, Haltung zeigen und etwas bewegen. Am 12.

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Elle DecorThis Breezy Los Angeles House Has “a Little Funk to It” Designer Mike Moser creates a Santa Monica home that spans decades, styles, and influences—without sacrificing fun.

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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. More than eighty sources come in through the day, twenty 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: 14 stories in seven days, +10 on the week before.

Dior Gets Caught With Their Hand in the AI Jar The Dieline

Today Is the Day: The DIELINE Awards 2027 Pre-Holiday Rate Ends Tonight The Dieline

Latest

Core77Made in Search's Midcentury-esque Hearth Lamp This simple, elegant Hearth Lamp looks like a Midcentury Modern design that's turned up in some Danish thrift shop. But in fact it's a new object, by British homeware brand Made in Search .

Core77Can You Guess How This Hollow Clock with Floating Hands Works? This Hollow Clock was designed by Shinsaku Hiura , an engineering professor at the University of Hyogo. It was then 3D printed and assembled by content creator MechDesign98 .

Core77Kate Schroder's Illuminated LED "Chandeliearrings" These chandeliearrings are by Kate Schroeder , a Missouri-based ceramic artist and jewelrymaker. They contain LEDs powered by LR41 button batteries, which provide about 30 hours of life (though the…

It's Nice ThatJay Anderson: “The next-generation designer will be increasingly hybrid” It’s a tough time for people starting out in the creative industry right now. Together with Creative Lives in Progress we asked 28 people to predict what starting a creative career will look like…

Yanko DesignDiden Spider Robot Climbs Steel Walls and Actually Welds Them A welding tool is only useful if you can get it to the seam. Inside a ship’s steel structure, that can mean bringing a worker, equipment, and a platform into position before the actual welding…

Yanko DesignA 26-Foot Tiny Home That Refuses to Go Beige The Brightside puts the kitchen beside the front door, so the first thing you encounter is a place to make dinner. That feels like a sensible starting point for a small home.

Dezeen InteriorsSABO Project "softens divisions" inside Manhattan apartment New York and Paris design studio SABO Project has introduced rounded partitions and bold green accents to a compact apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side .

PAGE onlineDesign feiern: PAGE verlost 3 × 2 Tickets für die FLYERALARM Design Award Gala Gutes Design kann mehr als gut aussehen. Es kann Aufmerksamkeit schaffen, Haltung zeigen und etwas bewegen. Am 12.

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Elle DecorThis Breezy Los Angeles House Has “a Little Funk to It” Designer Mike Moser creates a Santa Monica home that spans decades, styles, and influences—without sacrificing fun.