Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards

The Kokuyo Design Awards, (previously) arguably Japan's most-prestigious stationery design award, has been held for almost a quarter of a century now. Hosted by 120-year old stationery firm KOKUYO, the award receives close to 1500 entries each year for new products that have yet to be commercialized

Spoon & Tamago

The article is filled with jarring sentences like this:

"Rather than buying a notebook, you complete it—turning a passive object into an active, personal process."