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Yanko Design Job Board – One Stop Shop for Designers and Agencies
Ever since its inception in 2002, Yanko Design has been showcasing innovative and inspirational design content. In the past two decades, we have created a…
The incredible material that is “wood wool”
Let’s file “Wood Wool” under new materials, because I’m hearing about it for the first time. Also referred to as excelsior in North America, these…
This roomba-sized robot can paint on walls!
Carlo Ratti’s Scribit is a small printer with big ambitions and the ability to take on the biggest canvases possible. Scribit is a robot that…
20 A’ Design Award winning buildings that make us drool!
Goethe’s words “I call architecture frozen music” couldn’t ring more true for these 20 structural marvels. If architecture truly is frozen music, this article is…
Asia Design Prize: Free for Design Students!
Awards are expensive ordeals. I remember trying to push my work out as a design student and being absolutely shocked at the amount I was…
Let sunlight be your wallpaper!
“I want a house where I can feel the sky” sounds more like poetry than a design brief, but then again, the resulting product also…
Beauty and biomimicry!
The Navicula light pays tribute to the organism that is arguably the organism most responsible for the air we breathe. Yes, plants and trees put…
What Awards Do for your Design Career
The point of an award is to reward exceptional work… But is that all? Or is it to also elevate a designer from the rest…
These Two Countries Dominate at the A’ Design Awards
With 584 and 554 awards respectively, USA and China stand with the most number of awards won at the A’ Design Awards and Competition. The…
A bug’s life!
It looks like an igloo on the outside, but step inside and it feels like a world of magic! This is the Compound Camera, an…
YD Handpicks: 5 Valentine’s gifts to ease your troubles!
You could buy a $100 wine, or foot the bill at a fancy restaurant… again (or make a DIY sock puppet and regret it for…
A light you’ll want to directly stare into!
The Muul light isn’t as much about the light itself but is more about the effects of it. Look at that pattern and it looks…
Pixels of the past, in a display for the future!
With its feet on the ground but eyes affixed upward, the Vestaboard is a beautiful combination of past and future. If you’re the kind of…
The Fire Extinguisher You Wear
The Strap Extinguisher is a convenient and intuitive twist on the fire extinguisher that can be used with only one hand. When pulling the strap…
K-Design Award: Rewarding Creativity First!
In just its sixth year, the K-Design Award does something unusually brilliant in the fact that it sets its sight on design thinking, rather than…