About nendo
nendo is the Tokyo studio Oki Sato founded in 2002, and its whole visual language comes from one habit: every object is photographed alone on a seamless white sweep, with no horizon and almost no shadow.
This system carries that habit onto the screen. A pure white page, body copy in soft grey rather than black, pale grey fields, hairline rules, and one muted slate accent used once. Type stays small. The object, and the empty space around it, does the talking.
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan (with a Milan satellite)
- Era
- 2002 founded in Tokyo; Milan office 2005; current visual ~2020–2025 (nendo2025 site theme)
- Key figures
- Oki Sato · Akihiro Ito
- Movements
- Japanese minimalism · Conceptual furniture · Reductive industrial design
nendo design spec
Colors
Typography
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