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  • Designers need to focus on the afterlife of their products says Oki Sato

    Oki Sato explains how Nendo's chair for Fritz Hansen follows circular design principles, in this exclusive video filmed by Dezeen at the Japanese design studio's office in Milan. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 1 November 2019
  • Escher's work lies "between the impossible and the possible" says Nendo's Oki Sato

    The work of Dutch graphic artist MC Escher has influenced all designers, says Oki Sato in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 17 January 2019
  • "Technology should look like something in your grandmother's room" says Oki Sato

    Designers should rethink the high-tech look of gadgets according to Nendo founder Oki Sato, who has also called most of today's smart devices "useless". More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 7 August 2017 | 9 comments
  • "I think of Dezeen as my childhood friend" – birthday wishes from Oki Sato and other leading designers

    Dezeen is 10 years old today! To kick off a year of celebrations marking the first Dezeen Decade, we asked some of our favourite architects and designers to tell us what Dezeen has meant to them. More

    Amy Frearson | 17 November 2016 | 3 comments
  • Nendo's Oki Sato named world's most popular designer on Dezeen Hot List

    Oki Sato of Japanese studio Nendo has seen off competition from Thomas Heatherwick to claim a higher spot than any other designer on the first-ever Dezeen Hot List. More

    Amy Frearson | 11 November 2016 | 8 comments
  • Siam Discovery shopping centre in Bangkok is Nendo's biggest ever project

    Movie: Oki Sato of Nendo explains the concept behind the Japanese studio's redesign of a 40,000-square-metre shopping mall, in this video Dezeen filmed in Bangkok for retail development company Siam Piwat. More

    Benedict Hobson | 7 July 2016 | 2 comments
  • Nendo's first major retrospective opens at Design Museum Holon

    An exhibition covering the prolific output of Japanese studio Nendo and its founder Oki Sato has opened at Israel's Design Museum Holon (+ slideshow). More

    Alice Morby | 9 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Nendo reimagines Bangkok department store as a new concept for retail

    Japanese studio Nendo has completed its biggest-ever project: the exterior and interior renovation of a department store in Bangkok that founder Oki Sato believes represents a new way of shopping (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 27 May 2016 | 6 comments
  • Designing 400 projects at a time "relaxes me" says Nendo's Oki Sato

    Milan 2015: prolific design studio Nendo has launched over 100 products during the past year. Founder Oki Sato told Dezeen that he has "no idea" how they managed such a high output and revealed his plans to move into architecture (+ interview). More

    Dan Howarth | 28 April 2015 | 8 comments
  • "My sketches are really awful" - Nendo's Oki Sato

    In our second movie filmed at the opening of the new Camper store in New York, Japanese designer and Nendo founder Oki Sato admits to Dezeen that he is not very good at drawing, but that his sketches are an important first step in all of his designs. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More

    Benedict Hobson | 29 July 2013 | 5 comments
  • "We created an interior by copying and pasting a single product" - Nendo's Oki Sato

    In this movie Dezeen filmed at the opening of the new Camper store in New York, Japanese designer and Nendo founder Oki Sato explains why he covered the interior walls of the store with over a thousand white plastic shoes. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More

    Benedict Hobson | 25 July 2013 | 4 comments
  • Oki Sato on Nendo's Growing Vases

    In this interview filmed at Mint Gallery in London, Japanese designer Oki Sato of Nendo talks about Growing Vases, an installation of hand-blown glass lights with the blower's pipe still attached. More

    Amy Frearson | 21 October 2011 | Leave a comment

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