Ex-Aston Martin engineer designed a sleek ‘packable’ cycling helmet that flips inward to become 50% slimmer
It’s almost hilarious, but the two leading reasons for people not wearing helmets are the fact that it ruins their hair, and that it’s too…
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The James Dyson Award announces its 2021 Global Winners – Here’s a look at the winning designs
On a mission to locate, evaluate, and celebrate great young minds and their potentially life-changing ideas, the James Dyson Award is held every year, seeing…
Augmented Reality Helmet concept aims at revolutionizing how firefighters rescue civilians
Technology is best put to use when it gives us powers we didn’t have before. Whether it’s being able to fly using airplanes, see through…
This architectural structure is a UV-resistant protective shell that operates like a bionic flower!
This award-winning architecture structure is a concept design that creates a UV-resistant space by closing like a shield. It absorbs ultraviolet rays and unfurls like…
This chic self-watering planter uses a porous terracotta inner vessel to absorb water and hydrate the soil
The A-Pot displays elegance not just in execution but in thinking too. The simple two-piece self-watering planter uses an outer vessel made from glass, so…
This futuristic drum kit lets you sample real world audio and turn them into synthesized rhythms
Think like a Novation Launchpad or an AKAI MPD, but in the shape of a drum kit. Codenamed the ‘Collector’, this futuristic vision from the…
Cutting Edge Design Concepts that were granted the 2021 Red Dot ‘Best of Best’ Award
You can’t envision any future without conceptualization. Concepts have always interested us and have been the backbone of Yanko Design because they present an image…
8 of the most inspiring Professional Concepts from the iF Design Award global design community
The iF Design Award has been consistently hand-picking the best, most innovative designs since 1953, honoring top-class achievements in categories spanning Product Design, Transportation Design,…
This leather card-holder is made just by folding a single piece of leather – no metal rivets, stitches, or glue
With a design that relies on the simple powers of Origami and Kirigami, the One Piece Leather explores how to build products without additive or…
This shapeshifting TV turns into a virtual fireplace when you’re not binge-watching Squid Game on Netflix
A winner of the Red Dot Design Concept Award, the 77W isn’t a television, but rather a versatile display that can alter itself based on…
Your Lighting Design Lookbook: Award-winning Lighting Projects from A’ Design 2021
We’re here with inspirational lighting designs to help ‘spark’ your imagination! Perhaps the most ‘lit’ amongst the A’ Design Award’s multiple categories, this list looks…
The Michelin Challenge Design returns for its 22nd edition as the “Movin’On Challenge Design”
The rebranded design challenge focuses on Movin’On to the next frontier of transportation design — Sustainable Mobility. Ever since its first-ever design competition in 2001,…
This tiny pod merges a sauna with an infrared design to become the world’s first climate cabin!
Recognized by German Design Awards, Klimakabine is the world’s first climate-controlled micro-cabin built from OSB and stone pine with a loam and moss filter for…
The VAYU tower-cooler sports a monolithic design and cools rooms using evaporation
Evaporative cooling isn’t new. We humans have been using a similar mechanism for millions of years to stay cool – perspiration. The way evaporative cooling…
10 hottest gadgets and consumer-tech products from the iF Design Award global community
The iF Design Award has been consistently hand-picking the best, most innovative designs since 1953, honoring top-class achievements in categories spanning Product Design, Transportation Design,…
This insane modular camera rig lets you mount hexagonal cameras for higher-resolution 3D video capture
The RayShaper BeeHive works on principles of computational photography/videography… something your smartphone already does but on a much bigger, more powerful scale. A winner of…