A Swiss Designer Just Replaced Your HVAC System With a 500-Year-Old Pot
We spend a lot of time looking forward when it comes to solving the climate crisis. Better batteries, smarter thermostats, AI-optimized HVAC systems. And sure,…
The First Screwdriver With an Open-Source Handle You Redesign Yourself
There’s a quiet arrogance built into most tools. Someone in a design studio somewhere decided how your hand should hold a screwdriver, how long the…
Daniel Arsham’s New Drafting Table Has Brass Gears and Cup Holders Built In
Contemporary artist Daniel Arsham’s studio just received a custom drafting table from Madrid-based CALIPER, and it looks less like furniture and more like a precision…
A 9-Kilogram Lamp Built From 120 Handmade Parts (Only 15 Exist)
Most lamps want to disappear into a room, but every now and then, one shows up that demands the room reorganize itself around it. The…
Swiss Brand ‘On’ Just Built a $280 Running Shoe Using Robots in 3 Minutes
Most running shoes are Frankenstein jobs. Twenty, thirty pieces of fabric cut, stitched, layered, and glued together by human hands on a factory line. It’s…
This Ruler Holds Paper, Guides Your Blade, and Forgives Shaky Hands
I’ve been staring at these renders for a while now, and I keep coming back to one line from the project page: “A cutting-aid tool…
4 Upholstered Columns Become a Chair, And One Bends Into a Table
There’s a particular kind of furniture that makes you stop scrolling. Not because it’s trying to be art, and not because it’s doing anything especially…
When Design Understands That Starting Is the Hardest Part
There’s a particular kind of guilt that lives in the corner of a messy room. You see it, you know it needs to go, and…
This $219 Screen Runs 6 Months Per Charge and Wants Nothing From You
Most of the screens that you encounter everyday is always fighting for your attention, always buzzing, glowing, pulsing with red notification badges designed to hijack…
A 24-Sided Lamp That Reveals Hidden Colors When You Turn It On
There’s a moment when you look at a well-designed object and feel something shift quietly inside you. Not a gasp, not a dramatic reaction, just…
This 40-Pound Robot Dog Can Carry 143 Pounds of Cargo
Robot dogs have been having a moment for a few years now. From Boston Dynamics’ Spot strutting through construction sites to viral videos of four-legged…
This Dark Timber House Disappears Into a Norwegian Forest
There’s a particular kind of restraint that’s genuinely hard to pull off in architecture. Anyone can build something that commands attention. Far fewer can build…