Nico Tangara Transforms Vintage Phone into AI-Powered Device Designer Nico Tangara continues his ongoing exploration of analog-digital integration with a project that transforms a vintage rotary telephone into a multifunctional device combining a music player and an AI-based voice interface. The design maintains the rotary dial as the primary input system, repurposing its mechanical […]
The modern desk is a patchwork of small compromises. Your laptop has two USB-C ports, but you need displays, a wired network, external storage, and constant charging. That leaves you juggling dongles and adapters, with media controls and privacy shortcuts buried in software menus or keyboard combinations you can never quite remember. The setup works,
HubKey Gen2 Kills Dongle Mess, Adds Dual 4K and Physical Controls Read More »
Taichung’s skyline is about to get a dramatic new addition. MVRDV has secured construction permission for The Island, a 21-story residential tower that reimagines urban living through organic curves, ceramic artistry, and an ambitious vertical garden system. Rising where the city’s North and Beitun districts meet, the project stands in stark contrast to Taiwan’s typical
This 21-Story Tower Has 104 Green Balconies Inspired by Gaudí Read More »
Most posture gadgets target office workers hunched over laptops, buzzing when your shoulders curl forward, or your neck drifts too far from neutral. Meanwhile, people doing physically demanding jobs, like young farmers, quietly rack up back pain and joint strain from long hours of bending, squatting, and lifting in fields. That strain is often treated
PUM Imagines a Soft Exoskeleton Posture Wearable for Young Farmers Read More »
Nostalgia tech falls into two camps. Lazy references slap a retro logo on a modern object and call it vintage, while obsessive recreations feel like museum pieces. Most products lean too far in one direction, missing the sweet spot where memory and function coexist comfortably. The first feels cheap, the second feels precious, and neither
MaClock Shrinks the 1984 Macintosh Into a $30 Rechargeable Clock Read More »
iPhone zoom has improved, especially with the 17 Pro’s tetraprism, but anything past 5x still leans heavily on digital tricks. Distant concert shots look like watercolor paintings, city skyline details collapse into mush when you pinch to zoom. If you actually care about long lenses, you usually end up carrying a separate camera and a
Sandmarc Lens Gives iPhone 17 Pro 16x Optical Zoom, No Digital Tricks Read More »
You know that feeling when two things you never expected to see together suddenly collide in the most delightful way? That’s exactly what’s happening right now in the world of footwear, and honestly, it’s about time someone shook things up at Crocs. Let me introduce you to the Crocs Ripple, the brainchild of Steven Smith,
Yeezy’s Former Designer Just Dropped His First Crocs Design Read More »
Floating Pavilion Reconfigures Rijeka’s Waterfront Public Space PlivaTri is a floating triangular pavilion installed off the coast of Rijeka, Croatia, as part of the MEDS Design Workshop 2025. Conceived as a public structure addressing the limited availability of comfortable beachfront space, the pavilion forms a geometric intervention within the Adriatic landscape. Its triangular plan
triangular wooden pavilion floats on reused plastic gallons along croatia’s coasts Read More »
Einar Nerman (1888–1983) was a Swedish artist, illustrator, caricaturist and designer celebrated for his elegant, highly stylized Art Deco drawings of people and performers. After studying in Paris, he worked across painting, set and costume design and even composing, but became best known internationally for his commercial and editorial illustration, including work for magazines like
Cong Ming is a contemporary digital artist and illustrator who builds cinematic, character‑driven scenes that mix cute, gothic and quietly brutal elements into single‑frame stories. Working primarily in Procreate, she focuses on young women, cats and small domestic spaces, then injects cartoonish violence, body horror or emotional twists to talk about death, identity, aging and
