It’s a long way from Canada to Japan, but for Oki Sato, the prolific head of Japanese design house Nendo, the journey from a sleepy Toronto suburb to one of the world’s most exhilarating cities was an ...

Oki Sato is having a slow month. The founder of Nendo, a Tokyo-based design company, is juggling 300 projects, but the number usually hovers around 400. It’s a workload that seems like a recipe for ...

They are simple designs. Yet simple descriptions are rarely enough to bring to mind the miniature moments of delight that Japanese doodler and prolific designer Oki Sato creates. Maybe that’s why Sato ...

Video courtesy of Friedman Benda and Oki Sato/nendo inc nendo, led by founder Oki Sato, designed the new collection for Collective Design’s annual Collective Influence presentation, which was created ...

OKI SATO, THE DESIGNER behind Tokyo studio Nendo, often juggles 400 projects at once, he says, at times introducing a new product every week—from a compact earthquake-survival kit to watches inspired ...

Designers Luca Nichetto and Oki Sato of Nendo produced a new collection based on a series of idea exchanges. Inspired by Japanese bathhouses, Nendo created a series of floating boxes. The Tokyo Baby ...

There are a few universally accepted principles of good design: balance, scale, contrast, unity. Oki Sato would add another: narrative. "It's not the shape or color, it's about what's behind the ...

Japanese design studio Nendo has launched a range of stationery with innovative twists on traditional ideas for its "by | n" brand. The range was conceived by Nendo founder Oki Sato, and includes a ...

The Museum of Craft and Design presents Design by Distance, a virtual exhibition available to the public online through December 31, 2020.