Norm Lamp’s Body and Pods Are Cut From the Same Aluminum Tube
Many contemporary pendant lamps hide a surprising amount of complexity, multiple materials, custom housings, and plastic diffusers layered around a simple LED strip. That often…
Sustainable Design
Gomi Phone Case Is 100% Recycled, and No Two Look Exactly the Same
Phone cases change often. New phone, new case, new colour, and those old cases quietly pile up in drawers or end up in landfill. The…
Tray210 Proves Recycled Plastic Doesn’t Have to Look Grey and Boring
Recycled plastic products often fall into two camps: grey utilitarian bins or loud, speckled experiments that feel more like proof of concept than something you…
Auk Mini Grows 4 Herbs on Your Counter, No App or Pump Required
The usual indoor herb story goes like this: supermarket pots that die in a week, plastic hydroponic kits that look like lab equipment, and a…
Fairbuds XL Gen 2 Drivers Fit Gen 1 Headphones for a €100 Upgrade
Most wireless headphones quietly become disposable. Batteries fade, cushions peel, and people replace the whole thing every few years instead of fixing what broke. Fairphone’s…
Japanese Startup Brings Wasabi Farming to Shipping Containers
In a shipping container parked next to Macnica’s headquarters in Yokohama, an innovative revolution in Japanese agriculture is taking root. Inside the 40-foot steel box,…
This Australian Soy Fish Decomposes in 6 Weeks, Not 400 Years
As someone who can demolish a sushi platter in minutes, I’ve always felt a pang of guilt watching those tiny plastic fish pile up on…
A Living Sphere: Japan’s Self-Contained Food Ecosystem Points to Urban Agriculture’s Future
Perched at the Osaka Health Pavilion during Expo 2025, a translucent dome hums with life. Inside, tomatoes ripen above brackish water while pufferfish swim below,…
This Studio Grows Coffee Cups From Gourds
Picture this: instead of manufacturing your next coffee cup, what if you could just grow it? That’s the beautifully simple yet radical idea behind The…
Shantivale Incense: 5 Plant-Based Blends Mapped to Times of Day
Home scent has spent the last decade in candles and diffusers, often leaning on synthetic fragrance oils and heavy perfume notes that fill a room…
This 3D-Printed Modular Power Strip Is Made From Recycled Plastic
Carefully curated desks always have one ugly secret hiding underneath them. Power strips are black plastic bricks with tangled cables, even in the most beautifully…
5 Architect-Designed Homes That Disappear Into the Landscape
The concept of home is evolving, shifting from mere shelter to spaces that genuinely nurture our well-being. This means creating a harmonious connection with nature…