Category Design

Not quite props, not quite souvenirs. These A24 collectibles extend their films through objects made for shelves, tables, and hands.

The Oakley designs that still feel displaced in time.

A security guard’s temporary station signs became one of Tokyo’s most recognizable forms of handmade typography.

Sculptural playgrounds across Japan built between the 1960s and 2000s.

PUMA Urban Mobility showed how movement, travel, storage, and utility could be translated into product form.

Nissan’s Pike cars remain cult classics for their nostalgic design language, limited production, and distinct visual identity.

Everyday objects that helped define ±0’s product language under Naoto Fukasawa.

A study of cafés that treat coffee as one part of a broader product and graphic identity system.

Objects that entered circulation through the systems they reflect: auction, forgery, exhibition, scarcity, and belief.

Stüssy Livin’ General Store distilled style into daily-use objects. It reflected a West Coast sensibility filtered through Japanese restraint.