Get your work noticed by Karim Rashid at the Asia Design Prize 2019!
I’ve long been an advocate for submitting projects for awards. Not only does it instantly get you the credibility you need, it also gets your…
Interiors
Because traditional furniture and flat floors are too boring
The Les Angles Structural Seating brings the dynamic surfaces of the outdoors, indoors. Designed in a way that doesn’t look like furniture, but behaves like…
IKEA subtly redesigns its products for each country/culture
With its first Indian store launching only a day ago, IKEA proved that it understands its consumers and environment better than any other company in…
YD Design Storm #2
The YD Design Storm takes a look at products, services, and spaces that are storming the internet. The idea? To turn internet-storming material into brainstorming…
When IKEA and NASA design homes together!
Developed after research carried out by IKEA and NASA’s Mars Desert Research Station, the Rumtid is perhaps IKEA’s most ambitious project yet, to design inspired…
An imaginative, inspirational, illuminating shelf design!
‘Click’ is the result of the action of magnetically joining the nylon ropes to the Click shelf, but it’s not the sound that is the…
6 bedroom designs inspired by today’s tech giants
It’s unlikely that companies like Apple or Facebook will ever foray into designing home interiors, but a little wishful thinking never hurt anybody. In this…
Turning ceilings from mundane to insane
Reinventing what drop-ceilings should be like, MNML’s acoustic tile design for TURF comes with rare earth magnets that simply snap to the drop-ceiling grid framework…
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…
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…
A Designer’s Dream Hotel
From gel pens and dotted notebooks to transparent toothbrushes and perfectly tailored shirts, MUJI has been an integral part of my life and many others…
A pen-stand for your Christmas tree!
Some biologists would argue that trees weren’t really evolved to handle being kept indoors. Most trees you see are usually outdoors. Almost close to a…