Visual Atelier 8

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Visual Atelier 8Tesla Roadster design: Performance, Thrust and Rocket Tesla Roadster design in October 2026 In its October 2026 presentation, Tesla shows a redesigned Roadster with angular bodywork and an enclosed cockpit.

October 16

Visual Atelier 8BIG wins competition for Tirana Fountain Plaza in Albania Tirana Fountain Plaza introduces elevated architecture and expanded public gardens Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won the international competition for Tirana Fountain Plaza, a mixed-use architectural…

October 16

Visual Atelier 8Porsche Mission S introduces a new design direction for future sports cars Porsche Mission S design: exterior and cockpit Porsche Mission S is a mid-engined sports car concept presented on 15 October 2026 in Queens, New York.

October 16

Visual Atelier 8On and Roger Federer stage floating tennis court and drone show in Shenzhen Roger Federer joins On for a floating tennis installation and aerial light show in China Swiss sportswear brand On and tennis legend Roger Federer brought the global On Thanks for Playing series to…

October 16

Visual Atelier 8Deta Studio designs Chaise Longue 120° with neo-brutalist geometry Chaise Longue 120° by Deta Studio combines modular seating with angular geometry Deta Studio designs Chaise Longue 120°, a contemporary seating system combining an armchair and pouf into a…

October 15

Visual Atelier 8Ryuichi Sakamoto sound installations take over Berlin museum Hamburger Bahnhof hosts first major European retrospective of Ryuichi Sakamoto Ryuichi Sakamoto’s exhibition seeing sound, hearing time brings the late Japanese composer’s experimental sound…

October 14

Visual Atelier 8S.E.H. designs experiential retail interior for MUK in Barcelona MUK Recharge Club combines technology and wellness in Barcelona Barcelona-based spatial design studio S.E.H.

October 14

Visual Atelier 8YONT Studio creates analogue listening installation at KaDeWe in Berlin Pink sculptures and cassette tapes define YONT Studio’s installation YONT Studio created Not a Passenger, an immersive sound installation at Berlin’s KaDeWe department store, bringing analogue…

October 13

Visual Atelier 8Pinault Collection celebrates 200 Years of photography at Bourse de Commerce Remember Me by Pinault Collection brings 700 photographs to Paris Pinault Collection presents Remember Me, a major photography exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, bringing together…

October 13

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