Visual Atelier 8

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Visual Atelier 8Rishi Raj captures the movement of Indian classical dance through photography Rishi Raj on the relationship between movement, photography and artistic expression For photographer and trained Bharatanatyam dancer Rishi Raj, the camera offers another way of interpreting…

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Visual Atelier 8Nilufar connects collectible design across generations in Paris Nilufar pairs historic furniture with contemporary creations at Design Miami Paris 2026 Nilufar returned to Design Miami Paris 2026 with a curated presentation of vintage and contemporary collectible…

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Visual Atelier 8Art Basel Qatar 2027 announces international gallery lineup Art Basel Qatar 2027 brings 82 galleries and 80 solo presentations to Doha Art Basel has announced the participating galleries and curatorial direction for Art Basel Qatar 2027, the second edition of…

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Visual Atelier 8BYBORRE transforms Karel Martens visual language into fabric BYBORRE collaborates with Karel Martens on four knitted textiles BYBORRE has collaborated with graphic designer Karel Martens and his studio Martens & Martens to create a textile collection presented…

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Visual Atelier 8Studio Sarah Naghawi shapes steel through pressure in JAWF collection Studio Sarah Naghawi transforms stainless steel into sculptural furniture at Amman Design Week Studio Sarah Naghawi presented JAWF, an experimental stainless steel furniture collection, at Amman…

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Visual Atelier 8Creative Studio Unravel designs industrial UVU workout space in Seoul Creative Studio Unravel combines industrial textures and contemporary design at UVU Performance Facility Creative Studio Unravel has designed UVU Performance Facility in Seoul, a 198-square-metre…

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Visual Atelier 8WE ARE ONA celebrates culinary exchange at DALAD’S in Paris WE ARE ONA connects art and gastronomy through a dialogue between Thai and Qatari traditions WE ARE ONA and Qatar Lounge celebrated their collaboration with a special edition of DALAD’S in Paris…

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Visual Atelier 8AENARA designs Mars habitat for human life in 2075 AENARA imagines future living on Mars with experimental habitat at Powerhouse Parramatta AENARA presents Off-World Habitat Wall Section, an architectural installation examining the future of human…

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Visual Atelier 8VENINI brings the colours of autumn vineyards to iconic Murano glass designs VENINI introduces Vigna collection in sapphire blue and deep red Inspired by the changing colours of autumn vineyards, VENINI‘s new Vigna collection introduces a combination of sapphire blue and deep…

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Visual Atelier 8Movimento Gallery reimagines Parisian salons with ‘House of Dreams’ Movimento Gallery brings collectible design into Parisian apartment for Art Basel Movimento Gallery and International Design presented House of Dreams, a collectible design and contemporary art…

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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