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Packaging · 11 stories, +7 vs last week

Packaging: 11 stories in seven days, +7 on the week before.

This award-winning yarn packaging looks good enough to lick (please don’t) Yanko Design

Finalist Interview: Z1RO’s moulded fibre packaging from non-wood biomass Packaging Europe

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Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-26-26 to 10-30-26) Here's what we looked at this week: A good idea for a lamp for Ferrari fanatics-- based on a 1970s East German design . Improvised tools: A creative "juggad" leak detector.

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Core77Unidome's Transparent Igloos Earlier we looked at the work of Dream Domes , a UK-based event structure company. They've worked out a way to erect large event tents with no central support.

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Core77Industrial Design Student Work: A Hard Drive that Visually Indicates How Full It Is This morphing hard drive enclosure is by Antonin Odin , done as an Industrial Design student at France's ENSCI .

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Yanko DesignDIY Mod Makes The Apple Logo Glow On (Some) Existing MacBooks The glowing Apple logo was the best free feature Apple ever shipped, and I will not be taking questions.

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Abduzeedoandstudio Unveils the Werf Rotterdam Identity

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Yanko DesignA Candy-Colored House With Giant Arches Is Turning Heads on a London Street Imagine walking down a residential street in London and suddenly spotting a marshmallow-pink house with sweeping arches, playful curves, and flashes of turquoise.

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Yanko DesignThis yellow Lamborghini concept has more LEDs than your gaming PC Some of the most fun Lamborghinis on the internet never left Sant’Agata Bolognese, mostly because they never arrived there.

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Fonts In UseThe Budget postal card Contributed by Richard Sheaff License: All Rights Reserved . The Budget was a newspaper in Elmira, New York, in 1893 and 1894. The U.S. Postal Card is Scott catalog #UX9, issued December 1, 1886.

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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

One letter a week, starting soon.

Signal of the week

Packaging: 11 stories in seven days, +7 on the week before.

This award-winning yarn packaging looks good enough to lick (please don’t) Yanko Design

Finalist Interview: Z1RO’s moulded fibre packaging from non-wood biomass Packaging Europe

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Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-26-26 to 10-30-26) Here's what we looked at this week: A good idea for a lamp for Ferrari fanatics-- based on a 1970s East German design . Improvised tools: A creative "juggad" leak detector.

Core77Unidome's Transparent Igloos Earlier we looked at the work of Dream Domes , a UK-based event structure company. They've worked out a way to erect large event tents with no central support.

Core77Industrial Design Student Work: A Hard Drive that Visually Indicates How Full It Is This morphing hard drive enclosure is by Antonin Odin , done as an Industrial Design student at France's ENSCI .

Yanko DesignDIY Mod Makes The Apple Logo Glow On (Some) Existing MacBooks The glowing Apple logo was the best free feature Apple ever shipped, and I will not be taking questions.

Abduzeedoandstudio Unveils the Werf Rotterdam Identity

Yanko DesignA Candy-Colored House With Giant Arches Is Turning Heads on a London Street Imagine walking down a residential street in London and suddenly spotting a marshmallow-pink house with sweeping arches, playful curves, and flashes of turquoise.

Yanko DesignThis yellow Lamborghini concept has more LEDs than your gaming PC Some of the most fun Lamborghinis on the internet never left Sant’Agata Bolognese, mostly because they never arrived there.

Fonts In UseThe Budget postal card Contributed by Richard Sheaff License: All Rights Reserved . The Budget was a newspaper in Elmira, New York, in 1893 and 1894. The U.S. Postal Card is Scott catalog #UX9, issued December 1, 1886.