Wall lamps tend to fall into one of two camps. They’re either purely functional fixtures you stop noticing the moment you move in, or purely decorative pieces that look good in daylight and do little else after dark. The gap between ambience and ornament is rarely explored, and most wall lighting ends up forcing you […]
Eclipse Wall Lamp Casts a Shadow That Appears to Have No Source Read More »
Valerian blos shows Speculative design in the light of materials There is a dinner table at the center of Valerian Blos’s practice. Not a real one, though he has built a few, and this table appears in Substance of Power, a performance installation where guests sit beneath red light, surrounded by neuron-shaped ceramic dishes
design as tool for criticism: valerian blos reshapes matter to question current systems Read More »
The road to electric adoption has always needed two things, logic and emotion. Logic is easy to find in March 2026, with petrol prices climbing high enough to make every refill feel faintly offensive. Emotion is harder to engineer, yet it matters just as much. People want efficiency, but they also want acceleration, style, and
70 Mile Range, 110 Nm of Torque, and a One-Click Wheelie. Meet the AOTOS Flux X26 Read More »
RAI (Robotics and AI) Institute has built a new bipedal-wheeled robot prototype that gives us a glimpse of what versatile legs with efficient wheels can be. Designed for multi-mode locomotion, the Roadrunner weighs roughly 15 kilograms (33 pounds). Owing to its design and configuration, the robot on wheels with a set of symmetric legs can
RAI’s Roadrunner wheeled robot can roll and walk with effortless precision Read More »
assemble: a practice grounded in collaboration and continuity Assemble has developed a practice that moves between architecture, design, and social engagement, working across scales to produce not only buildings but also the conditions that sustain them. Co-founder Anthony Engi Meacock, during his conversation with designboom editor-in-chief Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou (find designboom’s coverage here), describes
assemble builds a collective future by working with what already exists Read More »
Most architects study sustainable housing. Matti Kuittinen actually lives in it. The Aalto University professor and architect didn’t just design the Tiny House Shadow as a thought experiment. He built it in Lohja, Finland, about 40 miles from Helsinki, moved his family in, and made it his primary residence. The result is one of the
This Finnish Professor Built His Family Home From Old Tires and Fishing Nets Read More »
Most of us have a complicated relationship with mirrors. We lean in too close, angle our phones for better lighting, and still walk away unsure whether that new moisturizer is actually doing anything. The SIMETRA AI Mirror, designed by Second White, is betting that the problem was never us. It was the mirror itself. At
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Summer 2013 belonged to Daft Punk. “Get Lucky” was everywhere, an inescapable groove machine that turned the French robots into genuine pop stars after years of underground credibility. The song marked a massive sonic pivot for the duo, trading their signature electro-crunch for live instrumentation, bringing in Nile Rodgers to lay down those disco guitar
Daft Punk’s Get Lucky Gets a 298-Piece LEGO Tribute With That Iconic Gradient Sun Read More »
Back in 2014, Sony shipped a small piece of plastic that clipped a phone onto a PS4 controller. It was limited to certain Xperia handsets, relied on Remote Play at a point when Remote Play was barely holding itself together over most home Wi-Fi networks, and it quietly disappeared without much fanfare. The idea of
Caviar has built its reputation on a specific kind of excess. An actual Rolex embedded into the back of an iPhone 14 Pro, retailing at $133,000. A custom iPhone 13 Pro cast from aluminum salvaged from a melted Tesla Model 3. A John Wick-themed iPhone 16 Pro so aggressively styled it looked like it belonged
