Look Ma! No Lights!
With lamps and luminaries, it’s quite simple. There’s a light source, and often, there’s a shade to diffuse the light too. That’s pretty much what…
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.
With lamps and luminaries, it’s quite simple. There’s a light source, and often, there’s a shade to diffuse the light too. That’s pretty much what…
The Workspace Divider Lamp is one of those cool startup/office must-haves. Ditching the boring cubicle, but still retaining a sense of privacy, the lamp can…
Twenty years ago, car sales were driven by something pretty silly and unusual. The Coffee cup holder. Cars with the holders were much more popular…
People go abroad, take selfies, and come back. Then they just sit and gather likes on Facebook and Instagram. That’s not what travelling is about!…
Designed for the elderly, but pretty much a fantastic idea for pretty much everyone, the Easy Switch isn’t just a clever idea, it has a…
The Branch fan is quite functionally superior, but I’m mainly intrigued by how cute it looks. Reimagined to look more like a lamp (Luxo from…
Personally, safety is much more important to me than any other instinct. Survival first, fittest later, if you get what I mean. Which is why…
If art doesn’t inspire, what use is it?! The Alchemist is a series of cool gentleman objects inspired from the book The Alchemist, by Paulo…
Let’s face it. Your power bank is nothing but a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for your phone. It, however, can be so much more. The…
Honestly, I’ve seen so many extension box designs on Yanko, I’m probably immune to them now. However, when you see an actual, functioning product that…
In the past couple of years, I’ve been closely following a technology known as the Audio Spotlight. People have devised a set of speakers that…
I assume babies in the twenty second century will have levitating cradles like the one here. Aptly titled Cradlev, the concept cradle uses magnetic levitation…