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Wallpaper*There’s a new player in the aluminium luggage game: meet Alu’r from Delsey Paris Parisian brand Delsey has launched in newest range of luxury cases, Alu'r, joining the ranks of high-end aluminium carry-on and check-in luggage.

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Wallpaper*At Kettle’s Yard, Sunil Gupta considers photography, identity and belonging ‘It's unusual for me to be in a space like this. Art and photography, in the UK anyway, have had a checkered relationship, so I wasn't expecting to be here.’ Sat below a Roger Hilton painting in the…

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Wallpaper*Ten c’s capsule collection with cult Japanese label Comoli is made for fabric obsessives Technical-wear brand Ten c – a playful acronym for ‘the emperor’s new clothes’ – was founded by Alessandro Pungetti and Paul Harvey in 2010 after stints at C.P.

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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