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Packaging · 10 stories, +10 vs last week

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

Sugar Free Candy | Packaging Design Packaging of the World

STUDIO HERRSTRÖM draws on car culture and carton typography for Milkshake rebrand Design Week

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AzureIn a Converted Garage, a Parisian Home With Space-Age Flair Atelier HA’s reno of an apartment in the Saint-Cloud neighbourhood of Paris is a stylistically forward-thinking space that is nevertheless rich with history.

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Yanko DesignAcer’s new 5G phone comes with a microSD slot, a headphone jack, and a display on the back Some phones look like slabs, some look like jewelry, and the Acer Sospiro A70 looks dressed for a wedding.

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Core77Akinori Goto's Incredible 3D-Printed Zoetrope Here we see an odd-looking wireframe, 3D-printed by Japanese artist Akinori Goto . The piece is called Ballet #01 .

October 14

Core77Hinterher's Flexible Bike Cargo Trailers German company Hinterher makes bicycle cargo trailers that can be stored flat. The company was founded by architect and furniture builder Peter Hornung, who designed the first Hinterher trailer as an…

October 14

Core77Fiat's Strange, Transforming Multiplay Concept Vehicle This week Fiat unveiled their Multiplay concept, a boundary-blurring vehicle with transforming bodywork.

October 14

Yanko DesignWeber’s EG-1 Coffee Grinder Tackles Static and Hidden Grounds I have different coffee paraphernalia at home, and using different grinders can sometimes be a hassle.

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AbduzeedoInside Robot Food’s Packaging Design for Postcard

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AbduzeedoEditorial Design: Fons Hickmann Posters by Slanted

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Elle DecorVhernier's New High Jewelry Collection Evokes Milan's Sleek Cityscape Crescent shapes and Italian architecture inform Vhernier’s new high jewelry collection.

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

Sugar Free Candy | Packaging Design Packaging of the World

STUDIO HERRSTRÖM draws on car culture and carton typography for Milkshake rebrand Design Week

Latest

AzureIn a Converted Garage, a Parisian Home With Space-Age Flair Atelier HA’s reno of an apartment in the Saint-Cloud neighbourhood of Paris is a stylistically forward-thinking space that is nevertheless rich with history.

Yanko DesignAcer’s new 5G phone comes with a microSD slot, a headphone jack, and a display on the back Some phones look like slabs, some look like jewelry, and the Acer Sospiro A70 looks dressed for a wedding.

TypewolfDaylight

TypewolfHeart & Soil

TypewolfDirty Vine

Core77Akinori Goto's Incredible 3D-Printed Zoetrope Here we see an odd-looking wireframe, 3D-printed by Japanese artist Akinori Goto . The piece is called Ballet #01 .

Core77Hinterher's Flexible Bike Cargo Trailers German company Hinterher makes bicycle cargo trailers that can be stored flat. The company was founded by architect and furniture builder Peter Hornung, who designed the first Hinterher trailer as an…

Core77Fiat's Strange, Transforming Multiplay Concept Vehicle This week Fiat unveiled their Multiplay concept, a boundary-blurring vehicle with transforming bodywork.

Yanko DesignWeber’s EG-1 Coffee Grinder Tackles Static and Hidden Grounds I have different coffee paraphernalia at home, and using different grinders can sometimes be a hassle.

AbduzeedoInside Robot Food’s Packaging Design for Postcard

AbduzeedoEditorial Design: Fons Hickmann Posters by Slanted

Elle DecorVhernier's New High Jewelry Collection Evokes Milan's Sleek Cityscape Crescent shapes and Italian architecture inform Vhernier’s new high jewelry collection.