Fifty years ago this month, a team of engineers and riders rolled three air-cooled German boxer twins into Daytona’s paddock and lined them up against a field of screaming Japanese inline-fours that everyone assumed would bury them. Butler & Smith, BMW’s US importer at the time, had hired an aerospace engineer named Udo Gietl to […]
If you’ve reached here, stop scrolling any further, and just look at that goddamn watch. Isn’t this Louis Vuitton pocket watch simply incredible? Museum-worthy, my colleague cries out! Before figuring out the entire dynamism of it and setting out to write, I looked again. Is that even a watch? It’s more of an art piece
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Ferréol Babin opens ‘In a Landscape’ at friedman benda In a Landscape, the newest exhibition by Ferréol Babin at Friedman Benda, brings a group of carved wood objects into dialogue with painted surfaces and ceramic inlays. Ahead of the March 6th opening in New York, designboom spoke with Babin about the works on view,
Tiny house living often demands tough trade-offs between mobility and livability, but Decathlon Tiny Homes aims to strike an appealing balance with its latest model, the Betty. At 28 feet long, this towable home sits comfortably in the mid-size category, offering enough room for a thoughtfully designed two-person layout without sacrificing the ability to hit
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A quiet revolution is reshaping the future of sustainable architecture. Instead of treating buildings merely as energy-saving shells, designers are now turning them into active power generators. With innovations such as Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels and ultra-thin solar films, the building’s exterior becomes an energy-harvesting surface, enabling power generation directly where people live and interact.
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Most people buy a phone case the same way they buy a phone. They want it to feel like them. Some people want basic, slim protection that keeps the phone looking as close to naked as possible. Others want rugged, military-grade armor that could survive a construction site. Some hunt for modular systems with swappable
Regeneration of Urban Village Memory by BENTU DESIGN Inorganic Growth is a research-driven project by BENTU DESIGN that converts construction waste from demolished urban villages into 3D printed urban furniture. By combining material reactivation with digital fabrication, the initiative transforms discarded concrete, brick rubble, and mortar into printable composites with cementitious performance. The developed
Most tablets arrive as sealed objects with decisions already made for you: storage is fixed, the battery is buried somewhere inaccessible, and the operating system is whatever the manufacturer chose. You use the device on those terms until it slows down or falls out of software support, and then you replace it. Brax Technologies, the
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Floating design is a product-led architectural approach that prioritizes spatial freedom and visual continuity. By lifting elements from the ground, spatial and product design achieves clarity, allowing products, surfaces, and volumes to read as lighter, more refined interventions within the space. In contemporary interior architecture, this language of suspension reflects a precise balance between engineering
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Most things we buy today are quietly built to fail. Your phone will slow down in two years. Your flat-pack furniture will wobble in five. The average American home is typically designed to hold up for about 50 to 100 years before it needs significant intervention, if it lasts that long at all. We’ve gotten
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