Silicon Valley meets Napa Valley
Well it was bound to happen. There seems to be a USB everything these days. From a humping dog to sushi to even a severed…
Design Digest Vol.13
Once again it is time for the YD Design Digest; A compendium of easily digestible design delights from around the inter-webs. First up is this…
Water + Wind = Fun
What could be more fun than flying a kite or riding a Waverunner? Try both at the same time! That’s the basic idea behind the…
Stereo Listening Rings – Two Rings to Rule Them All
Now here is a perfect example of concept design bettering the world in previously unimagined ways. The deaf of the world are not just being…
Anxiety free Musical Furniture
Here is a coffee table design that literally marches to the beat of a different drummer. Tor Clausen makes these musical coffee tables dubbed “Musical…
Time to Watch this Line
A watch for keeping time is becoming less and less a part of society. With many of us now looking at our mobile phones for…
A little LIGHT RAIN protection…
Well the weekend is upon us and Yanko Design is happy to inspire another do-it-yourself design project. Spring time if filled with new life, new…
Lifesaving Design
Availability of clean drinking water is massive problem all over the world. From natural disasters like 2004’s tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, to war torn areas…
Yanko Design Profiles: GM’s Designer in Chief
As many working designers are well aware of: all industrial and automotive designers can thank their yearly salaries to General Motors and the concept known…
Tech that lets you connect with kids…
We have all seen the nature shows where the baby deer wanders too far from its mom and gets pounced on by some hidden predator….
Think Stink!
Where there once was a tree, there is now a coffee table.. take that nature! Paying homage to or simply mocking nature’s grandeur, the “Stink…
Get Inked….and some beer
Are you a little burnt like me? Not necessarily from smoking anything, you just have a mind full of “more important” things than menial tasks…
Steam Punk 101
As you can imagine, we here at Yanko Design see just about every type of design the creative mind can conjure. Most of us were…
Make a racket Racket
Once upon a time one needed an Eastern European coach to berate and verbally pummel you into perfecting your perfect back swing. Now technology and…
Design Digest Vol.12
Good news everyone! Yanko Design just had a Pause Button installed on our forward looking crystal ball. We are usually looking so far into the…
Cup of Java Script
Technology and scaled down computers are finding their ways into more and more ubiquitous items in our lives. From RFID clothing tags and eBooks (Kindle)…