Signal of the week

Typography-led identity · 3 stories, +2 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

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3 September

Creative Boom'It simply fills my life and saves me': Inside Varya Yakovleva’s sketchbooks From a chance ink sketch to a full series of paintings and wooden sculptures, the illustrator and animator explains how Les Femmes sauvages came together. "I was playing with ink, and I linked a...

3 September

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

Crystal Vision Takes Non-Alcoholic Drinks On a Scenic Detour The Dieline

Mother Tongue Design Builds an Indian Cookware Brand Rooted In Culture The Dieline

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Designboomgiant poké ball becomes human-sized sleeping pod in japan the familiar red-and-white sphere is finally letting humans in, although only a few lucky sleepers will get the key The post giant poké ball becomes human-sized sleeping pod in japan appeared first on designboom | archit

Creative Boom'It simply fills my life and saves me': Inside Varya Yakovleva’s sketchbooks From a chance ink sketch to a full series of paintings and wooden sculptures, the illustrator and animator explains how Les Femmes sauvages came together. "I was playing with ink, and I linked a...