Design

MetMo has a very particular way of working. The Leeds-based engineering team finds a mechanical concept from history that was ahead of its time, studies it carefully, then rebuilds it with the materials and precision manufacturing the original inventor could never have accessed. The MetMo Pen went back to an 1892 dual-thread screw. The Fractal […]

Sony’s next console is on the horizon, but a growing number of gamers are looking backward instead. The PS6 will almost certainly launch north of $500, and for that price, entire libraries of PlayStation classics remain locked behind aging hardware, digital storefronts, or subscription tiers that rotate titles in and out on a whim. Meanwhile,

There’s a quiet arrogance built into most tools. Someone in a design studio somewhere decided how your hand should hold a screwdriver, how long the shaft should be, how thick the grip ought to feel. They tested it on a handful of people, ran the ergonomic studies, picked a shape, and shipped it to millions.

Contemporary artist Daniel Arsham’s studio just received a custom drafting table from Madrid-based CALIPER, and it looks less like furniture and more like a precision instrument from a machine shop. The entire structure is CNC-machined aluminum with exposed brass gears, machined hand cranks, and yes, two built-in cup holders, because even meticulous charcoal drawings require

Most lamps want to disappear into a room, but every now and then, one shows up that demands the room reorganize itself around it. The ML15 Helios, designed by Berlin-based artist Frank Buchwald in collaboration with MB&F’s M.A.D.Gallery, is one of those objects. It’s a lamp, technically. It gives off light, it has a switch,

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Frequent flyers develop rituals. Not superstitions, but systems, small corrections built over dozens of boarding passes and red-eye recoveries that separate a tolerable trip from a miserable one. The gear that survives this process tends to be invisible in the best sense: compact enough to vanish into a carry-on, functional enough to earn its pocket