"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
