
Behind the design – Leaf cycle lane divider
All products start off as an idea in someone’s mind. An idea that takes shape as a
Custom projects, from concept to manufacture. Specialists in urban products.
Unique play experiences to spark the imagination.
Innovative and user-friendly solutions to promote sustainable urban mobility for all.
Design-led street furniture and signage, created to enhance urban projects.
Neko is an industrial design studio creating beautiful and functional products for the urban environment since 2005. We are passionate about public space and its ability to shape and improve communities, and our vision is to make the world around us better through design.
Our speciality is helping our clients to fast-forward the lengthy design process by designing innovative and highly relevant urban products, including playgrounds, street furniture and cycling solutions.
At Neko we believe in integral development throughout the whole product lifecycle, from concept to manufacture and beyond. For custom projects, we work closely with our clients to design unique solutions with our design consultancy service.
In addition, a selection of our most innovative and best-selling urban products are available through our growing network of distributors.
Neko started life in 2005 with four friends, a couple of computers and a big vision to make the world better through our designs. Since then, we have worked with corporations, architects, urban designers and public authorities all over the world, designing new solutions for urban spaces. The team has grown with collaborators and partners who share our vision.
Neko’s work has been featured in press from Forbes to Architectural Digest, exhibited worldwide, and has won several international design awards along the way.
Hiroshi, Alice, Daniel and Karime, Co-founders of Neko Design
Almost two decades ago, we started out working on industrial design consultancy projects such as custom urban furniture and signage design for architects and urban designers. After working with several high-profile clients, something interesting happened. People were contacting us to ask how they could buy the street furniture from these bespoke projects. They liked it much more than the other commercially available options.
Our clients look for designs which help their urban projects stand out. Well-designed, user-friendly pieces, that are built to last. We knew that we needed to design a range of urban products which would appeal to them. Our aim? For each piece to add something extra – the finishing touch for urban spaces. With our objective clear, we created our own line of urban furniture, cycling solutions and playgrounds.
It didn’t stop there. People kept looking to us to design the things they couldn’t find – a user-friendly two-tier bike rack; a smart cycle hub; imaginative playgrounds…the list went on.
The result was three product lines – now over 150 products, from street furniture to cycle parking and playgrounds. Many have won design awards; all are inspired by your vision.
Over 10,000 of our products have been installed, bringing innovation, eco-design and a splash of colour to great projects of all sizes.
With offices in Spain and Mexico, we work together on projects across borders as one international team. The people at Neko are curious and creative professionals with different areas of expertise – and we’re passionate about improving our public spaces through design. We believe in the power of collaboration and our aim is to work with partners and distributors worldwide who share our vision and ambition.
We set ourselves an ambitious goal to win at least one international design award each year. Most recently we won an iF Design Award and a Red Dot Award, and our designs have won competitions and been exhibited and published all over the world. These are some of our accolades:
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All products start off as an idea in someone’s mind. An idea that takes shape as a
Award-winning design: ‘Splash’ by Neko wins the prestigious German iF design award We are very proud
There’s been a lot in the news the past year about bike lanes – cities worldwide have installed pop-up ones during the pandemic and are now looking at how to make them a permanent fixture. There are so many ways to achieve this and many different types of cycle lane divider.
Open-ended play, inspired by our own children Since launching Playwaves, we get asked a lot where the
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