Design

There’s a version of a desk setup that communicates everything about how little thought went into it. A black mesh organizer from the bottom shelf of a supply closet. A mouse pad that came free with something else. A cable clip in beige. The desk functions, technically, and does so with a level of visual

 Power banks have spent years being boring on purpose. Black rectangles, white rectangles, the occasional textured finish. The category settled into a kind of utilitarian invisibility, as if the industry collectively decided that anything carrying electrons should look like a bar of soap. SHARGE never got that memo. The Shargeek 300 looks like a

Most speaker designs ask a pretty simple question: how do we make this thing louder and smaller? Merge asks a completely different one. How do we make music something you can actually take apart? Created by a five-person design team, Junchuan Shi, Junhao Lv, Xiangzhao Meng, Ping He, and Genghao Ma, from a cross-institutional collaboration

There is a moment, the architects at Snøhetta will tell you, when you step off the train at Qasr AlHokm and look up, and the entire city of Riyadh looks back at you. That is not a metaphor. It is exactly what happens beneath the station’s sweeping, mirror-polished stainless steel canopy, where a 360-degree reflection

I have to be upfront: I did not expect a tumbleweed to be one of the most exciting design concepts I’d encounter this year. Tumbleweeds, in the cultural imagination, belong to Westerns and dusty ghost towns. They’re the kind of thing that drifts across an empty street right before a showdown, the universal shorthand for

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy turned twenty in 2024, and somehow, the film has only gotten funnier with age. What started as a Will Ferrell comedy about a hilariously fragile male ego navigating the very real 1970s newsroom gender wars became one of the most quoted, most meme’d, most endlessly rewatchable comedies in modern