Most university buildings treat their rooftops as mechanical afterthoughts, a surface for HVAC units and waterproofing membranes that no one is meant to see. Sanjay Puri Architects inverted that logic entirely at Prestige University in Indore, turning a 97,000-sq-ft roofscape into a stepped public landscape that seats 9,000 people. The five-story building beneath it almost […]
Most lamps do one thing. They turn on. They stay on. And at some point, you turn them off and wonder why your eyes feel like sandpaper or why you cannot fall asleep even though you have been sitting in a dimly lit room for the last hour. Lighting is one of those things we
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biennial of sydney shows textile work of ema shin At the 2026 edition of the Biennale of Sydney, artist Ema Shin debuts a monumental embroidered heart, an enlarged version of a form that has defined her practice for years. Suspended within the exhibition space, the piece occupies the room with a soft mass of
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Design Mindset is Yanko Design’s weekly podcast, powered by KeyShot, the 3D rendering and visualization software that helps designers test how products feel, not just how they look. Hosted by Radhika Seth, the show goes deep into the philosophy and process behind world-class products, sitting down with the designers and founders who actually built them.
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Olga Furman is a Russian‑born, New Jersey–based mixed‑media contemporary artist best known for expressive portraits and figurative works with elements of surrealism. She grew up in St. Petersburg and the Russian Far North, later emigrated to Israel and then to the United States, and now runs a home studio where she paints and teaches. Faces
Simon Bailly is a French illustrator and graphic designer from Lyon (born 1993) whose work fuses ligne claire Franco‑Belgian comics with poster design and dry, often sarcastic visual storytelling. Since graduating from École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in 2015, he has illustrated for Libération and Le 1 and now works widely with clients such as
Ozy Worldy is a contemporary painter born in 1998 and based in southern Italy, whose work blends dark surrealism with expressionism to explore “daily and romantic darkness” and the brutal side of introspection. His canvases usually center on a solitary red‑masked or horned, faceless figure watched by grinning, wide‑eyed black cats, staged in dense vegetation
The gaming handheld continues to expand with new devices aimed at retro enthusiasts and mobile gamers. One of the latest additions is the GameMT EX8, a portable gaming console designed to deliver a capable Android-based gaming experience while maintaining a relatively affordable price point. With a high-resolution display, a familiar handheld layout, and hardware suited
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For about 18 years, every aluminum MacBook has looked more or less the same. Silver. Angular. Quietly serious. There’s nothing wrong with that. Apple’s unibody aluminum design, introduced in October 2008 and carved from a single block of metal, was genuinely elegant and set the template for an entire industry. But it also retired something
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Most furniture sits in a room without saying much. It fills a corner, does its job, and disappears into the background. Nako Baev’s THE OBJECT 01 is not that kind of furniture. The Amsterdam-based designer set out to build a chair that carries the weight of a spatial statement, something that holds its ground without
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