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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oki Sato is really a child at heart. Designing for him is all about having fun, waiting for his ideas to look happy and for his sketches to smile back at him. Take for example the Gacha Gacha ...

The work of Dutch graphic artist MC Escher has influenced all designers, says Oki Sato in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. Sato told Dezeen that the main theme of Escher's work is about the ...

Camper officially launched its shoe company in Spain in 1975, but its shoe-making DNA goes back over a century: The company’s founder is the grandson of a Spanish cobbler. When Camper first opened, it ...

A lesser person might collapse under Oki Sato's workload. The 40-year-old head of Tokyo design studio Nendo works on dozens of projects simultaneously, has won multiple awards, written books and been ...

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 ...

It’s not every day a creative is given carte blanche to ‘design flames’ – yet this was one key task among many which Oki Sato, founder of Japanese design firm Nendo, found himself tackling recently.

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 ...

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