IKEA Waited 12 Years to Show This Inflatable Chair at Milan Design Week
Air has always been free. IKEA designer Mikael Axelsson has been thinking about that fact for over a decade, sitting on an idea he first…
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
Air has always been free. IKEA designer Mikael Axelsson has been thinking about that fact for over a decade, sitting on an idea he first…
Cyberpunk stopped being a design aesthetic and became a lifestyle signifier somewhere between Blade Runner 2049 and your neighbor’s RGB-lit battlestation. We’ve seen the look…
The armchair has been one of the most contested territories in furniture design for over a century, from Alvar Aalto’s bent plywood experiments to Arne…
The early 2000s had a very clear idea of the future. Think of films like *Minority Report* with its PreCrime headquarters, all white rooms and…
Six wheels on a Lexus, at a furniture fair in Milan, sounds like either a provocation or a punchline. At this year’s Milan Design Week,…
There’s a reason Mother’s Day gifts tend to pile up in the “I tried” category. Flowers wilt, spa vouchers go unused, and the scented candle…
For roughly six months of the year, Sweden is cold enough to keep its people reliably indoors. That is long enough to matter, and long…
A few years ago, I bought my mom a simple powerful handheld fan that she now swears by (it’s small enough to be a permanent…
Aston Martin’s hypercar trajectory over the past decade has followed a clear arc: the Valkyrie brought F1 aerodynamics to road car design, the Valkyrie AMR…
If you can emulate Nintendo devices on laptops, why can’t you emulate laptop software on a Switch? That’s pretty much Alquemy’s train of thought when…
Glass is the most psychologically loaded material in architecture. It promises transparency and delivers ambiguity, reads as weightless while demanding extraordinary structural engineering, and has…
Tanto blades were originally developed for armor penetration, ground with a reinforced tip geometry that could punch through hardened surfaces where a conventional drop point…
Every first-generation Apple product is essentially a beta test with a premium price tag, and the iPhone Air was no exception. The engineering was genuinely…
The 2026 F1 season marks the biggest technical reset the sport has seen in over a decade, with new power unit regulations that push electric…
Three-wheeled vehicles occupy this weird liminal space in transportation design. Too substantial to park with bicycles, too small to merge confidently on highways, weird enough…
Forget the $800 Scandinavian pet cave or the linen-covered cube that your cat ignores in favor of your laptop bag. The most genuinely entertaining piece…