As someone who can demolish a sushi platter in minutes, I’ve always felt a pang of guilt watching those tiny plastic fish pile up on my plate. Sustainable design studio Heliograf clearly felt the same way. After five years of development, they’ve launched Holy Carp!, the world’s first home compostable soy sauce dropper that doesn’t […]
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You buy a Kindle or Kobo, load it with books, then leave it on a nightstand while your phone follows you everywhere. Reading apps on phones compete with notifications and social feeds, so you end up doomscrolling instead of finishing that novel you downloaded. Xteink’s X4 tries to solve that by becoming a tiny, magnetic
Xteink X4 is a wallet-sized eReader That Snaps Onto Your Phone Read More »
Kia always likes to celebrate its milestones with concepts that pave the way for the future of automotive design and technologies on the inside. This week is the South Korean brand’s 80th anniversary, and predictably, they’ve gone to the lengths of materializing a concept that is one of the most impressive from their design studio.
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Generic wireless earbuds arrive in identical white plastic shells with forgettable names and indistinguishable sound profiles. Smart speakers reduce albums to voice commands and invisible algorithms. Mass-produced audio gear does the job, but it does nothing for the soul. The following collection rejects that sameness entirely. These seven designs treat sound as something worth seeing,
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Double-faced watch chaos tells two different times In 1999, Japanese architect Masayuki Kurokawa introduced Chaos, a double-faced watch with a circular colored window that tells if the time’s day or night. Designed for the brand Citizen Watch, the name of the timepiece design stems from not following rules because a typical watch usually comes
Relic Installation Explores Light, Reflection, and Transformation Relic installation for Noor Riyadh in Saudi Arabia builds on Karolina Halatek’s previous site-specific piece in Metz, redefining the concept of a monument. The pyramid-shaped structure emits a sky-tracing beam of white light through mist and mirrored surfaces, creating a serene gathering place. As visitors approach the
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If you’ve ever felt frustrated by your air purifier sitting uselessly in the corner while your bedroom air gets stale, you’re not alone. Traditional air purifiers have a fundamental flaw: they camp out in one spot and hope for the best. But what if your air purifier could actually move to where the problem is?
MITO Just Built an Air Purifier That Drives Itself to Dirty Air Read More »
Urban Soul Project reimagines hospitality through a drawn line In a landscape long defined by Cycladic white and postcard predictability, Urban Soul Project (USP) introduces Neema Maison Finikia Santorini, a hotel designed for Neema – Domes Resorts. USP’s concept is based on a sculptural metal ‘thread’ that moves through the interiors like a continuous
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IRIS CERAMICA TURNS VICTORIAN STONE INTO FOCAL POINT The Victorian Stone project by Iris Ceramica (part of Iris Ceramica Group) continues its evolution, focusing on the expressive power of three-dimensional wall surfaces. This extension introduces a line of white-body coverings, reinforcing the ceramic project’s ability to bring a sense of nature, peace, and solidity
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Cozy desk setups have become a competitive sport. Tiny CRTs, retro keyboards, and beige plastic everywhere, usually looking very cute but doing very little beyond collecting dust and likes. Most of that gear is either pure decor or pure utility, rarely both. MiniToo leans into the 80s PC silhouette hard, complete with a CRT-style screen
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