Signal of the week

Rebrand / refresh · 12 stories, +8 vs last week

Rebrand / refresh: 12 stories in seven days, +8 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 DesignThe 26-Foot eVista XL Tiny Home Skips the Loft for a Private Bedroom There’s no ladder between the living room and bed in Escape’s eVista XL Limited Edition. The 26-foot tiny house keeps its bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom on one floor, with a sliding door giving the…

October 17

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.

October 17

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…

October 17

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.

October 17

AbduzeedoProduction Type Unveils the Ciel Typeface

October 17

Graphic Design USA

Graphic Design USADKS Turns Apple History Into Participatory Experience iPod Dance lets visitors step inside the visual language of Apple's iconic silhouette campaign rather than simply looking at it.

October 17

LogoLoungeA New Identity for New Energy Design firm Red&Grey has created an identity for a new European onshore renewable energy company whose scope includes solar and wind power as well as battery storage.

October 17

Fonts In UseCafé de Pont, Amsterdam Contributed by Richard Keijzer Photo: Richard Keijzer . License: All Rights Reserved . The owner of this café in Amsterdam-Noord put the name on the façade. And then the place was sold.

October 17

Fonts In UseNew Chinatown Chinese Restaurant sign Contributed by gladys magnus Photo: gladys magnus . License: All Rights Reserved . Located in Chicago’s Chinatown, this restaurant has been open since 2013 and serves northern and northeastern…

October 17

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, +8 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 DesignThe 26-Foot eVista XL Tiny Home Skips the Loft for a Private Bedroom There’s no ladder between the living room and bed in Escape’s eVista XL Limited Edition. The 26-foot tiny house keeps its bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom on one floor, with a sliding door giving the…

TypewolfDaylight

TypewolfHeart & Soil

TypewolfDirty Vine

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.

AbduzeedoProduction Type Unveils the Ciel Typeface

Graphic Design USADKS Turns Apple History Into Participatory Experience iPod Dance lets visitors step inside the visual language of Apple's iconic silhouette campaign rather than simply looking at it.

LogoLoungeA New Identity for New Energy Design firm Red&Grey has created an identity for a new European onshore renewable energy company whose scope includes solar and wind power as well as battery storage.

Fonts In UseCafé de Pont, Amsterdam Contributed by Richard Keijzer Photo: Richard Keijzer . License: All Rights Reserved . The owner of this café in Amsterdam-Noord put the name on the façade. And then the place was sold.

Fonts In UseNew Chinatown Chinese Restaurant sign Contributed by gladys magnus Photo: gladys magnus . License: All Rights Reserved . Located in Chicago’s Chinatown, this restaurant has been open since 2013 and serves northern and northeastern…