Laptop thinness has always been a trade-off dressed up as progress. The slimmer the chassis, the less room there is for the thermal infrastructure that keeps processors from throttling, and that compromise has long passed as the cost of portability. Inventec’s VeilBook, a 14-inch concept under 10 mm thick, took home an iF Design Award […]
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El Departamento draws from Berlin nightlife for store interior Architecture and interior design studio El Departamento has designed the Berlin flagship store for the streetwear brand Nude Project, located on Alte Schönhauser Straße. The project develops a retail environment shaped by references to Berlin’s nightlife culture of the 1970s, combining fashion display with a
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Most camping gear looks like it was designed for someone who thinks color theory is for the weak. It’s all neon-trimmed polyester and tactical buckles that somehow cost as much as a plane ticket. IKEA, of all brands, just called the bluff on that entire category. The Swedish giant’s new SOLUPPGÅNG collection arrived this month,
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suki+partners transforms a wedding lawn into a ‘playground’ At the Canal Sanwan Hotel in Yangzhou, China, Suki+Partners conceives and shapes Playground, an interactive outdoor installation created for a wedding celebration. Set across a vast 2,640-square-meter lawn, the project introduces a spatial experience to the single-day event that invites guests to step into a temporary
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Most backyard pools spend their lives being thoroughly underused. They’re great for a hot afternoon cool-down and perfectly fine for the occasional float, but not exactly built for anyone who wants to swim laps. The obvious fix is a swim jet system, until you look into what installing one actually costs. Professional installation means plumbing
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Meet RAD, short for Rivian Adventure Department, which is either a very clever name or a very brave one. In practical terms, it is Rivian’s newly formalized performance and development group. The team takes its trucks and SUVs into demanding events, learns what breaks, what grips, what flies, and channels those lessons into future products
Most tiny houses compete on how much they can cram into a small footprint, with fold-out tables, lofted beds, and hidden compartments behind every surface. The Mysa 200, built by Utah-based Irontown Modular, goes the other direction entirely, delivering a compact, single-level dwelling that trades clever gimmicks for genuine livability. Named after the Swedish word
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Most of us have a box. Or a bag, or a corner of the closet where clothes go to wait for a fate we haven’t quite settled on yet. Not trash, not donation, just quietly pushed aside. The jeans that stopped fitting but once made you feel unstoppable. The sweater that pilled after three washes
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Sri Lankan designer Thilina Liyanage has built a recognizable portfolio around one core idea: that architecture in wild spaces should speak the language of those spaces. His previous concepts have drawn from bird forms, insect geometries, and the angular logic of animal skeletons, earning him a following among readers who track biomimetic architecture with the
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