The Robots That Built Seoul’s Robot Museum
The Seoul Robot & AI Museum is the definitive parametric architecture reference of 2026, and it’s easy to understand why the design world keeps returning…
Milan 2026’s Most Interesting Chandelier Is Named After a Computer
Milan Design Week 2026 was, by most accounts, a fair deeply in love with the handmade. Craft, texture, labour, and the visible trace of human…
RIMOWA’s 2026 Prize Went to a Bracelet That Speaks Sign Language
The RIMOWA Design Prize doesn’t always produce furniture, and that’s precisely why I pay attention to it every year. The luggage brand’s annual student design…
Vollebak’s New Sonic Jacket Fires 180 Speakers Into Your Body
If you’ve ever stood too close to a speaker at a concert and felt the bass move through your chest, you already understand the basic…
A Pour-Over Dripper Inspired One of Beijing’s Best Pop-Ups
Pop-ups have become one of the more interesting testing grounds for design ambition. They exist long enough to make a statement but not so long…
A Chair With a Drawer, a Calendar, and a Point of View
The first thing you notice about Massimiliano Malagò’s chairs is that the bottom half looks like it’s giving up. The ceramic bases appear to be…
Someone Built a Clock With 60 Water Pumps and Zero Regrets
When I first saw the Water Tower Clock by Strange Inventions, I genuinely had to watch it twice. Not because I didn’t understand it, but…
VIBRYX Is the Furniture Collection That Treats Sound as a Material
I’ve looked at a lot of furniture collections over the years. Most of them ask the same question: how do you make a sofa or…
Objects With Opinions: Ronen Kadushin’s Pieces
There are designers who make beautiful things, and then there are designers who make things that make you think. Ronen Kadushin belongs firmly in the…
Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan
Most lamps just sit there. They do their job, emit their light, and fade into the background of a room. Mirei Monticelli’s lamps are the…
A 4D-Printed Cast You Can Actually Shower In
Most medical devices evolve quietly over decades. Surgical tools get sharper, imaging machines get faster, drug delivery systems get smarter. But the orthopedic cast has…
Pininfarina’s Forever Pen Needs No Ink, Ever
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what makes an object truly worth keeping. Not just useful, but worth keeping. The kind of thing…