Nendo designed this series of “Rinkak” mice for Japanese company ELECOM. The name rinkak comes from the Japanese word “rinkaku”, which refers to an object’s outline against its own background. The design incorporates the outline of the mouse itself and seems to extend out to the USB cable, therefore the mouse becomes the background and…
It all started from a Christmas card of objects. The selection of objects led to this “Substitutes: Necessity is the mother of invention” exhibition now displayed in Berlin at the Gallery Berlin-Weekly.com, curated by Stefanie Seidl of Gallery Berlin-Weekly and Fabian Baumann of Formfjord. We know that there are many objects like bottle openers that…
Nendo designed these Bell Orgel music boxes for Japanese department store Isetan. This was in cooperation with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “moretrees” initative, which promotes the protection of forests. The bell-shaped music boxes were made of Japanese cypress (hinoki), harvested from sustainable forest management practices, into three varieties: hand bell, standing bell and hanging bell….
Japanese design company Nendo worked with the oldest champagne house Ruinart to design this Kotoli Picnic Box. Ruinart wanted to celebrate all that a city has to offer through picnicking, rather than trying to escape the hectic city life. Nendo’s designs just tells that story. The inspiration comes from birds that perch on the criss-crossing…
During this year’s ICFF in New York, Moroso presented this Silver Lake collection designed by Patricia Urquiola. The collection consists of a sofa, an armchair and chair, each displaying a geometric interplay of solids, voids, and volumes of many-sided polyhedral forms, which looks back to the California modernism of the Fifties. Materials such as wood,…