Signal of the week

Typography-led identity · 4 stories, +4 vs last week

Type is doing the heavy lifting this week. Thonik's Orkest Phion and Roberta's Pizza both let letterforms carry the whole identity — no mascot, no pattern, just voice. Worth reading them side by side. — John

Trump’s Lake America font underscores the new name’s silliness Fast Company Design

CA’s 2027 Typography competition deadline today Communication Arts

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Designboomvoids and vertical space reinterpret traditional japanese machiya on a compact site in tokyo the vertical residence responds to changing daylight, airflow, and seasonal conditions.

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September 4

Hakken (発見) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about design and branding, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

A magazine, because every week has a signal worth reading slowly. A radar, because we count what the world's studios are talking about — typography, materials, heritage, colour — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We do not aim to be complete. We aim to notice: the small finding, the quiet exhibition in Kyoto, the idea from a Copenhagen studio that would work in Osaka. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Hakken will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If something here helped you see, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。

Signal of the week

Type is doing the heavy lifting this week. Thonik's Orkest Phion and Roberta's Pizza both let letterforms carry the whole identity — no mascot, no pattern, just voice. Worth reading them side by side. — John

Trump’s Lake America font underscores the new name’s silliness Fast Company Design

CA’s 2027 Typography competition deadline today Communication Arts

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Designboomvoids and vertical space reinterpret traditional japanese machiya on a compact site in tokyo the vertical residence responds to changing daylight, airflow, and seasonal conditions.

ColossalGo Behind the Scenes of Blackwing Pencils’ Ode to Analog Creativity The company shares how pencils are created in a multi-step process in factories in Japan and California. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publish