Picture a tall mirrored cone rising from a circle of sand in the middle of the desert. You step in, drag your feet, draw patterns, and the cone reflects all of it back to you, warped and strange and weirdly beautiful. That’s the Interactive Sand Reflecting Cone, a concept by designer Michael Jantzen, and it […]
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Located in Adalaj, Gujarat, Asterix Café by UrbanNest Design Studio reimagines the contemporary café as a bold, experience-driven destination. Moving…
There was a time when LEGO sets lived in toy chests and were dismantled by Tuesday. That time is officially over. Today’s LEGO releases, along with the fan-designed Ideas submissions threatening to become tomorrow’s, are the kind of builds you display on a bookshelf, light dramatically, and absolutely do not let anyone touch. We’re talking
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Ateno embeds Olen resort into a cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea Ateno Architecture Studio’s Olen Resort unfolds across a seaside, amphitheatrical plot in Syros, Greece, characterized by a steep southward slope and an uninterrupted view of the Aegean Sea. The primary challenge of the project was to satisfy complex functional requirements while respecting the
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There’s a particular kind of misery that comes with typing long documents on a tablet. The glass surface gives nothing back, autocorrect wages a quiet war against technical vocabulary, and by the third paragraph, the whole setup feels like a compromise that compounds. Bluetooth keyboards solve most of that, but most of them are still
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Painting made of recycled computer floppy disks Artist Taylor Smith turns obsolete computer floppy disks into large-scale portrait paintings made up of these recycled storage devices. Hand-assembled into the canvas, hundreds of these materials become the base for screen-printed and painted portraits of figures, from Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to David Bowie and
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Marek Kounovský designs Eski.Sub glass speaker The Eski.Sub is a glass loudspeaker by Marek Kounovský – MK Designers that draws inspiration from the visual language of Brutalist architecture and the cultural atmosphere of London’s UK grime music scene. The project examines the relationship between sound, urban context, and emotional listening experiences, positioning the loudspeaker
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Bluetooth speakers have a curious problem. The ones worth owning tend to cost real money, and the ones that don’t cost much tend to sound exactly like they cost nothing. IKEA’s KALLSUP sits somewhere outside that tired formula entirely, not because it defies audio physics at $9.99, but because it was never really designed around
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revisiting a singular imagination Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg, celebrated for his ornate architectural drawings and the iconic hand-shaped chair, has passed away at the age of 90. Following the news of his passing, designboom looks back at a visit and interview inside the artist’s Mexico City home and studio, stepping inside the fantastical world
architecture for growing mushrooms at casa wabi The OMA-designed Mushroom Pavilion has opened at Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, introducing a compact structure dedicated to mushroom cultivation within the foundation’s coastal landscape. Set across the expansive grounds of Fundación Casa Wabi, the pavilion joins an iconic campus founded by artist Bosco Sodi that blends
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