Ida Torres

Ida Torres is a writer at Yanko Design. She graduated with a degree in Film and Audio Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines and holds certificates in Digital Marketing Communications. She previously worked in the PR, advertising, and events industry and also taught communication subjects at the collegiate level. She has been writing for social media, books and publishing, pop culture, technology news, and design for the past 10 years.

Contemporary metal chandelier with multiple curved arms and glowing glass bulbs in a dark room.

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…

Lighting

Person's arm is raised, wearing a white minimalist wrist-worn device with a clasp around the wrist.

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…

Accessories, Fashion, Technology, Wearables

White quilted jacket covered in numerous black square panels connected by yellow wires, laid against a dark backdrop, with a yellow tag reading 'Vollebak Sonic Jacket' nearby.

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…

Audio, Fashion, Technology

Futuristic metal dome and circular pod sculpture in a tree-filled city park at dusk, with warm interior lighting visible through the doorway and window.

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…

Architecture

Three decorative ceramic chairs on sculpted bases with calendar-style numbers and blue numerals; left chair has plants, middle is wooden, right is yellow.

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…

Furniture

Indoor science exhibit featuring two white panels with vertical rows of blue liquid-filled bottles connected by tubing, forming a cascading display on a wooden table base.

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…

Lifestyle

Dark minimalist living room with a black sectional sofa, low square ottoman, and sleek metal accents on a bright pale floor.

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…

Furniture

Wooden piggy bank silhouette with coins on a rustic table, beside a vase of pink tulips and potted plants on a bright windowsill.

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…

Accessories

Three sculptural pendant lamps with twisting translucent fabric shades emitting warm light. Two taller and one shorter, suspended from cords against a pale wall.

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…

Lighting

Forearm wrapped in a white lattice medical cast from wrist to mid-forearm.

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…

Manufacturing, Medical