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The DielineRoberta’s Pizza Carefully Crafts a ‘Type Collision’ at the Core of Its Brand System Take a deep dive into the type choices Roberta's Pizza co-founder Brandon Hoy made with designer Drew Price to bring controlled chaos to the brand identity. The post Roberta’s Pizza Carefully Crafts a ‘Type Collision’ at

Range Rover unveils its first fully electric car

DezeenRange Rover unveils its first fully electric car British carmaker JLR has combined the off-roading capabilities of a Range Rover with the improved responsiveness and torque of an EV for the brand's first all-electric car. Powered by two 260-kilowatt motors, the Range R

Dyson's first toothbrush "uses a camera to floss while you brush"

DezeenDyson's first toothbrush "uses a camera to floss while you brush" Technology company Dyson has launched the CameraJet electric toothbrush, which includes a mouthwash jet that is directed by a camera to remove plaque between teeth. Named the Dyson CameraJet, the electric toothbrush is D

How Chanida Areewatanasombat draws the feelings she can't say out loud

Creative BoomHow Chanida Areewatanasombat draws the feelings she can't say out loud The Bangkok-based illustrator makes what she calls "visual diaries", recording her thoughts and feelings on paper and screen to try to make sense of them. Her latest work is about letting go...

BP&OPerky Bros puts restrained Southern hospitality before shouty branding in its identity for Tennessee resort Southall Branding parlance often deifies qualities like ‘boldness’ – being ‘brave’, ‘zigging when others zag’, ‘disruption,’ and so on and so forth. Some projects, however, demand and deserve the absolute opposite; the sign of a

BP&OPorto Rocha creates bold yet sensitive new identity for Brazilian art gallery Almeida & Dale Founded in São Paulo in 1998, Almeida & Dale is a Brazilian art gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art. Over the past 20 years or so, across its three galleries in Brazil it has developed a programme of exhi

All Purpose ditches wine clichés in its lurid new identity for natural wine importer Ancestrel

BP&OAll Purpose ditches wine clichés in its lurid new identity for natural wine importer Ancestrel Based in leafy yummy-mummyish south London enclave Forest Hill, Ancestrel (yes that’s a deliberate misspelling) is a wine shop and so much more – it’s proudly the first company in the UK to import natural wine. Having st

Japan now

日本の今 · What's on view, what the Japanese-language press is covering, and this week's Japanese web — in English

On view

Japanese web this week from Responsive Web Design JP and MUUUUU

The wire AXIS and Japan Design Net, translated

How Japan designs in 2026 from Japanese studios' own trend reports

Sources

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About

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。