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IDEAJapanアイデア No.415 Published: 2026/9/10 Price: 定価3,850円／3,500+tax jp yen 各ネット書店で購入する＊その他全国書店、ネット書店でもご購入いただけます。電子版を購入する＊電子版についての詳細はこちらをご覧ください。日本国外から購入するデザインの根源にあるもの今号は〈配信・ストリーミングのデザイン〉をお届けする。

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IDEAJapanアイデア No.412 Published: 2025/12/10 Price: 定価3,960円／3,600+tax jp yen 各ネット書店で購入する＊その他全国書店、ネット書店でもご購入いただけます。電子版を購入する＊電子版についての詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

2025.12.02

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