Bring your designs to the real world: The A’ Design Award and Competition
Winning an award can make quite a difference. It validates your idea and the skills you invested to present/refine the idea. It also allows your work…
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An Armoire For Your Appetite
Forget spending a fortune on tailor-made construction just to hide your unsightly refrigerator. The Art Fresh Bar is the first in a handsome series that aims…
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Companionship On Demand
Designed with the elderly in mind, Google Mate is the first in a series of smart connected devices that aim to enhance the lives of elderly…
Improving Your Hearing Improvement
Gone are the days of wearing clunky over-the-ear hearing aids, but Eargo aids are taking things to the next level. Their beautifully crafted buds are actually…
Featured Designs
We Found a Travel Pillow that Ticks All the Boxes!
Here are a couple of features I look for in a travel pillow. They need to be A. comfortable, B. compact, C. effortless to set-up, and…
The OPPY is an Ultra Hi-Def Action Cam from a Parallel Universe
In a universe or a dimension where the GoPro didn’t exist, I believe the Oppy would be the camera that’s ubiquitous with recording events, stunts, and…
Top 5 Industrial Design jobs for this week
As a part of our careers-related columns, these are our top five picks of the best industrial design opportunities on Yanko Design’s recruitment platform YD Job Board. This week’s selection…
Deconstructed Footwear of the Future
The latest from Monterrey-based SHIFT design studio, the “F1” marks the designers’ first signature sneaker silhouette. Not to compare immediately, but it’s aesthetically akin to familiar…
An Air Purifier with A Difference
We have covered air purifiers multiple times in the past, where we have seen a vast array of forms and design directions, however, this one is…
Say hello to the gyrofan
We’ve got a long way to go when it comes to beating Dyson in the ‘reinventing fans’ department. However, the Satellite fan is quite a stunner….
Monolith Meets Amp
Introducing, Supernova: a 360-degree concrete guitar amp that sounds as good as it looks. The design is crafted from concrete which not only gives it a…
The Levimoon brings a levitating, light-up moon replica to your bedside table!
Some products are built purely for one’s eyes only. Designed to uplift spaces and enrich lives, the Levimoon is one such product. Designed as a replica…
This card-based UX wireframe maker turns digital ideation into physical fun
Featuring 80 double-sided cards, the UX Kits Wireframe card deck lets you build and experiment with interfaces and wireframes simply by arranging cards to form layouts,…
With Starck’s Power Dock, Bentley goes electric!
Collaborating with design powerhouse Philippe Starck, maker of iconic objects from Alessi’s Juicy Salif citrus juicer to Axor’s Axor Starck V faucets, Bentley hopes to get…
The EXOvault Mouse is pure steampunk heaven!
There’s something about the EXOvault Mouse that just commands your attention, unconventional and simply alluring, the mouse comes with a steampunk aesthetic, featuring a hardwood body…
Yaaawwwn…
Did I make you yawn?! Sometimes just seeing the word is all it takes to trick us into making the universal expression for “I’m sleepy.” Inspired…
Sound, Visualized
The microphone takes inspiration from a phenomenon known as cymatics in which sound vibrations creates waves in a substance. The visual waves, seen in fine grains…
Here’s How Ten Thousand Islands Built Probably the Best Multi-purpose Shoe
The ‘best multi-purpose travel shoe’ is, if nothing, a very bold claim. In an industry that pumps billions into material research as well as human research,…
The world’s next breakthrough product may just come from Microsoft
Keeping secrets in the tech biz is growing increasingly difficult. With new products being leaked (even sold!) days or months before releases, oftentimes an avid consumer…
A Welcomed Redesign for An Old-school Device
In schools and colleges, there is one vital item of equipment that is yet to see an update, as its form has remained unchanged for years….
The Novem Watch Shows Us You Can be Traditional yet Refreshingly Unique
We’ve covered our fair share of watches at YD, and as a design website, a lot of it doesn’t boil down to feature lists, but to…
The car that can save VW
If you want to challenge reality, challenge it like a Transportation Designer. Most designers slave away trying to make their products realistic, but with Transportation Designers,…
Holden’s Time Attack Concept can hit 100km/h in a second
On paper, Holden’s Time Attack concept, built for the 50th anniversary of their first ever Bathurst 1000 victory, has the fastest acceleration in the world. With…
Designed to look like jewelry, the Facett Hearing Aid makes wearables precious
My disdain for medical products that look ‘clinical’ isn’t really a secret. I’ve been openly critical of medical products that put function above aesthetics, because healing…
With 4 cameras, the Galaxy A9 wants to be the best mid-range smartphone
With Pixel’s launch just two days back, it’s pretty evident that the war for phone cameras is clearly between two brands. Apple and Google. As much…
How do you design for zero-gravity??
Industrial designers are required to fit themselves into a wide variety of scenarios so as to solve problems effectively. But how do you solve problems in…
The Winemaker’s Unimog
Designer Bendegúz Asztalos’ vision for an all-new Mercedes Unimog vehicle is specially adapted for something close to home. Inspired by his family’s small vineyard in in…
