Minimal & restrained

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PRINTThe Daily Heller: Bummer Summer Cleanup Take a pull off of vintage cigarette packaging. The post The Daily Heller: Bummer Summer Cleanup appeared first on PRINT Magazine .

20 August

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

18 August

Spoon & TamagoJapanKokuyo’s New ‘Transparent Mechanism’ Collection Puts its Engineering on Full Display For more than a century, Kokuyo has been quietly refining the humble tools of the desk. Beyond a pursuit of quality and utilitarianism, the Osaka-based maker of stationery tools has always tried to “pique the curiosity o

12 July

Spoon & TamagoJapanMUJI is Restoring Antique Furniture Salvaged from Kominka Across Japan Minimal lifestyle brand MUJI has been in the homebuilding business for over a decade. And in recent year they have expanded their focus to not just building new homes but renovating old kominka folk homes. The latest off

28 June

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。