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These Experimental Pencils Treat Writing as Performance Art

There’s something almost rebellious about spending serious design energy on a pencil. We’re constantly told that screens are the future and handwriting is obsolete but Korean design studio BKID went all in on the opposite direction. Their project “Write Draw Think” asks a question nobody knew they needed answered: what if we stopped taking the […]

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martin parr and the legacy that shaped contemporary photography

How Martin Parr’s career marked contemporary photography   Martin Parr, one of the most influential photographers of his generation, passed away on December 6th, 2025, in Bristol at the age of 73. A central figure in contemporary documentary photography, he reshaped how visual culture reads everyday life, elevating the ordinary, the awkward, and the unguarded

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electric guitar made of air and recycled cardboard plays as functional musical instrument

recycled cardboard turns into a functional electric guitar   Burls Art creates an electric guitar from air and recycled cardboard that still plays and works as a musical instrument. The craftsman’s idea comes from a cardboard guitar made in a collaboration between Fender and Signal ten years ago. That guitar used corrugated cardboard as the

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SKEGIC MagCable Snaps Into a Coil, Never Tangles in Your Bag Again

Charging cables snake across desks, tangle in bags, and turn car consoles into nests of rubber that wrap around shifters and cupholders. We buy nicer desks, stands, and chargers, but the cable itself usually remains the same cheap afterthought that sprawls everywhere. If anything deserves a design rethink, it is the thing we touch every

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schindler X8 reshapes elevator architecture operating without a shaft or pit

the schindler x8 elevator goes on tour   After an attention-grabbing debut at Milan Design Week 2025, Swiss mobility specialist Schindler is taking its 2025 innovation, the Schindler X8 elevator, on a European tour. The Schindler X8 on tour brings the company’s revolutionary design directly to cities including Milan and Basel, started with the Global

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A Modernist City Apartment Seamlessly Updated For Modern Living

A Modernist City Apartment Seamlessly Updated For Modern Living Architecture by Christina Karras Inside the Park Avenue Towers renovation by Nic Morgante. Ajar Table Lamp on left by Sean Brickhill. A new banquette seat offers the perfect space for entertaining. Crown-cut oak features consistently throughout. The hallway leads to the bathrooms and bedrooms. The entry.

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Titaner Titanium EDC Ratchet Swings at 4° for Impossibly Tight Spaces

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with a stubborn screw buried deep inside a chassis or tucked behind a piece of furniture. You finally wedge a ratchet into the gap, but every swing sends the screw back to where you started, undoing your progress in tiny, maddening increments. The problem isn’t skill or

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This Off-Grid Sauna on Wheels Is Touring the UK’s Wildest Landscapes

Rupert McKelvie’s latest creation sits somewhere between architectural statement and wellness refuge. The Aquila, a mobile sauna from his Devon-based studio Out of the Valley, transforms the traditional Finnish ritual into something you can tow behind a truck. It’s taking heat therapy to lakesides, coastal cliffs, and forest clearings across the United Kingdom, proving that

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