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“If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won’t help.”
—Edward Tufte

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Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs.

Pictograms are everywhere. From street signs and text messages to toilet doors and maps, they have transformed global travel, removing barriers by creating a universal visual language. This new exhibition at Japan House demonstrates how the beauty and precision of Japanese design has shaped the art of visual communication. Japan has played an integral role in the development of pictograms. The renowned design agency Nippon Design Center set an early standard with the sporting pictograms they created for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, while people often unknowingly use a Japanese word – ‘emoji’ – to talk about digital pictograms.

—via Japan House

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Nakagin Capsule Tower.

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed in 1972 by architect Kisho Kurokawa in Tokyo's Ginza district, is one of the most celebrated and rare built expressions of Japanese Metabolism, a radical architectural wave that, inspired by the principles of organic and cellular mutation, has often struggled to translate the visionary nature of its design solutions into built form. From July 2025, more than fifty years after its construction and three since its controversial demolition, the MoMA in New York revives this metabolic manifesto with the exhibition “The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower”, but rather than treating the tower as a relic of architectural archaeology, the show presents it as a living organism: still rich with meaning, transformation, and interpretive potential.

—via MoMA

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Detour.

Moleskine and Moleskine Foundation present DETOUR, the travelling exhibition of artists’ notebooks, Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, July 31 - August 23. Detour is a travelling exhibition curated by Moleskine featuring decorated notebooks by internationally recognized artists, architects, film directors, graphic designers, musicians, illustrators and writers. Visitors are invited to explore and discover each author's creative process as it unfolds on the blank pages of a Moleskine notebook.

—via Moleskine

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Concrete Mag.

How can concrete, one of the world’s most industrial materials, become a vessel for memory, resilience, and place? Concrete Quarterly, Volume 59 explores this question through Edge House, revealing how restrained use of concrete can endure weathering in a coastal climate and anchoring it deep into the bedrock below. We are honoured to see the project featured in such a respected publication.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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How to Build a Home in a Protected Landscape.

Thinking of building in a National Park, AONB, or Conservation Area? For over 20 years we’ve been quietly shaping award-winning architecture in some of the UK’s most protected landscapes. This guide reveals how we design with deep sensitivity. Navigating complex planning, respecting place, and delivering buildings that truly belong.

—via Hyde + Hyde Architects

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