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SurfaceThe Inheritance of Checo Pérez: Building Cadillac Formula 1 From Year One The driver will make his 300th Grand Prix start at his home race in Mexico City this weekend Courtesy of Cadillac Formula 1.

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SurfaceDesigner of the Day: Julia Eshaghpour and Kevin Hollidge of Sunfish Sunfish, the New York-based decorative and fine arts studio founded in 2021 by Julia Eshaghpour and Kevin Hollidge, has built its brand on a range of disciplines.

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SurfaceLiv Vaisberg on Collectible New York’s Third Edition The fair's co-founder on pairing established galleries and emerging makers in the city's cultural epicenter: the Upper East Side Highlights of Collectible 2025. Courtesy of Collectible.

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SurfaceChalhoub Group Partners with Nomad Abu Dhabi, and Other News. Plus, Raffles to build 35 waterfront homes in Coconut Grove, and teamLab sets a 2030 opening for a 110,000-square-foot museum at OCVIBE Courtesy of Nomad.

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SurfacePeter Pincus Produced 149 Unique, Complementary Ceramic Vessels for Glenmorangie 50 Years Old Each colorful piece, which houses the Scotch brand's oldest-ever single malt release, unites to form the expansive artwork 'Together in Spirit' Courtesy of Glenmorangie With an ambitious concept…

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SurfaceIrini Papadimitriou Is Named the Seoul Mediacity Biennale Director, and Other News. Plus, the Toledo Museum of Art's new initiative puts art books in African libraries, and the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize unveils its shortlist Courtesy of Seoul Museum of Art.

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SurfacePari Dukovic Captures Miami City Ballet’s 40th Season in “RISE” In photographer Pari Dukovic's new exhibition "RISE," attention turns to the disciplined bodies that make the art of ballet possible.

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SurfaceThe House of Suntory and Surface Celebrate Hibiki Japanese Harmony’s Chiso Bottle Collaboration Acclaimed artists, designers, and gallery owners, as well as cultural and culinary figures assembled within The Gallery by Odo, the epicurean exhibition space helmed by chef Hiroki Odo of…

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SurfaceUribe Schwarzkopf Brings WOMA to Wynwood Norte Composed of colorful volumes, designed by Dutch architectural practice MVRDV, a new mixed-use residential building invokes the Miami neighborhood's heritage Courtesy of MVRDV and Uribe Schwarzkopf.

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SurfaceChef Dalad Kambhu and Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s We Are Ona Paris Pop-Up, Dalad’s For Art Basel Paris 2026, a convergence of culinary and cultural talent Courtesy of Robin LeFevre Housed in a secret location near Place de l’Etoile, the six-day pop-up restaurant Dalad's married the…

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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