An emergency food brand developed with a comprehensive design approach

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Pendulum Thinking is one of our most important ideas and metaphors. Our London studio director Yosuke Ushigome writes about how reimagining design roles can transform the product development process.

Moving between making and thinking

A real-time flight status visualization of the H3 rocket

H3 Flight Status Indication System for Public

Takram is a place where new values get discovered and take shape. We work with changemakers from across businesses, organisations and society to explore future possibilities.

Takram is a place for creative discovery

We worked with Hitachi’s R&D Division to create an interactive web experience exploring sustainable transitions within the interconnected areas of biodiversity, climate, and human life.

Three Transitions for a Human-Nature Recovery

Making of Home Shrine — a project where Swarovski and Takram together explored alternative relationships between digital assistants and us. The piece was exhibited at Design Miami/ Basel in 2018 as part of Swarovski’s Designers of the Future Awards.

Designing more relatable AI voice assistants

We partnered with Mercari's in-house creative team and Monotype's Akira Kobayashi to develop Mercari Sans – Mercari's new corporate typeface created to embody the organisation's brand values. Other deliverables for the project included a type specimen book and a website to introduce the typography design.

Mercari Sans

In this R&D project, we helped Toppan Printing and b8ta Japan test out IoA Shopping™ – a digital twin business model that enables remote users to switch between virtual and real shopping environments – by creating the Virtual b8ta proof-of-concept.

Virtual b8ta

Takram and NIKKO Co, Ltd. have developed “Table Planter™,” which suggests a new lifestyle. Takram has supported the concept, and product development, exhibitions and communication on the web or social media with design.
NIKKO has been crafting pure white and robust tableware in their factory in Ishikawa Prefecture since 1908. “Table Planter” reflects on the modern ways of living while confronting sustainability, suggesting a new lifestyle where people and plants live together using tools made of the same material.

Table Planter

Shenu is a series of artificial organs designed to conserve the amount of water necessary to sustain human life. It responds to the brief given by an exhibition at dOCUMENTA(13) where Takram was tasked to design a water bottle in a hypothetical, dilapidated earth environment a hundred years in the future.

Shenu: Hydrolemic System

We conceptualised and produced the "with Motion & Control" global brand campaign for NSK, a world-class manufacturer of ball and roller bearings and linear motion products.

with Motion & Control

Commissioned by global air conditioning manufacturer Daikin Industries, Every Air is an exhibition that casts a new light on and challenges our preconceptions about the air surrounding us. We originally developed it as a site-specific experience for Milan Design Week 2020 but produced a film version of the installation when the event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Every Air

We choose to work across industry and discipline boundaries.

Combining design, engineering and business expertise on a project-by-project basis creates diverse and rich outputs.

What we design

We helped design a new verbal and visual identity for J-WAVE 81.3FM, a commercial radio station based in Tokyo, Japan. Working closely with the leadership at J-WAVE, we redefined its mission and core values by incorporating important themes such as "listeners in Tokyo", "music" and "beyond delivering information".

J-WAVE Branding

Our London studio member Jonathan writes about the process of designing and developing an internal Slack app. He argues that thinking about multilingual communication is also about caring about the people you work with.

Nurturing a Multilingual Culture

Takram was tasked by leading Japanese manufacturer of office supplies, Kokuyo Corporation (“Kokuyo”), to develop a brand concept for HASA scissors, and the product design for HASA-001.
The HASA scissors concept aims to sincerely pursue the most comfortable cut for long-lasting use.

HASA

Energy Proverb Net and Photovolphilia, two of our projects, which explore different relationships with the energy system, are currently exhibited at The Energy Show. The exhibition, which presents “a series of projects that focus on the interaction between the sun, solar energy, people and design”, is open until 5 March 2023.

Two of our projects on display at The Energy Show in Het Nieuwe Institut in Rotterdam

We helped ORBIS, a Japanese DTC skincare and beauty brand founded in 1987, launch their 'SKINCARE LOUNGE BY ORBIS' flagship in Omotesando, Tokyo. Takram's Hisato Ogata led the creative direction of this project, which included the design of visual identity, experiential content, printed material, merchandise, moving images, wayfinding signage, digital platforms, and in-store music.

SKINCARE LOUNGE BY ORBIS

Everyone, at least once in their life, has experienced 'play' of some sort. The guests for this episode of Takram Cast embrace 'play' and weave it into their activity extending beyond the children's playground. We ask the guests how they define being playful and embed them into their designs.

On Being Playful

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