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High-design vacation rentals in Ireland and Shelter Island, a show in an iconic modernist house, and more

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An Iconic Midcentury Hotel Reborn, a Belgrade Hi-Fi Listening Bar, and More

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I Expected to Love My First 3Days of Design in Copenhagen. But I Could Never Have Anticipated What Would Make It So Great.

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Four Perfect Parisian Apartments — Two of Which You Can Rent — and Three Exhibitions to See Now

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Ceramic “burlwood,” vintage nightclub chairs, bronze reliefs, and more from Lisbon Design Week

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A new status hand soap, the best bits from Melbourne Design Week, and more

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SPOTLIGHT: Two perfect tile series for transforming your kitchen, bath, patio, or any surface that could use a bit of zhuzh

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The Best of New York Design Week, From Nightlights to Fish Tables

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Murano glass, plaster flowers, mosaic tables: All the hits from New York Design Month so far

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Japan now

日本の今 · What's on view, what the Japanese-language press is covering, and this week's Japanese web — in English

On view

Japanese web this week from Responsive Web Design JP and MUUUUU

The wire AXIS and Japan Design Net, translated

How Japan designs in 2026 from Japanese studios' own trend reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

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。