5 Biomimicry-based Architectural Designs That Copy Nature’s Best Ideas
Designers working across product design and interior architecture view the Amazon not as a backdrop, but as a lesson in how materials, forms, and systems…
Sustainable Design
Lie Under This Solar Roof and Watch the Sun Move in Real-Time
Most solar infrastructure is treated as background hardware, panels on roofs or fields that quietly feed the grid while public life happens somewhere else. That…
Michael Jantzen Just Turned Solar into a 16-Arm Moving Sculpture
Most renewable energy systems hide in plain sight. Rooftop solar panels blend into shingles, batteries sit in containers behind fences, and wind turbines spin in…
The Case for Heirloom Furniture in an Era Obsessed With Biodegradable Everything
Joe Doucet has always been good at saying uncomfortable things politely. His latest provocation, delivered via Columns, a furniture collection with Bulgarian studio Oublier, is…
Samsung’s 13-Inch E-Paper Housing Is Made from Phytoplankton Plastic
Printed signs get reprinted every week, while full LCD signage burns power all day just to show a static promo. E-ink has quietly solved this…
Lotte E&C Just Turned 5 Eggs Into the Welcome Gift You’ll Use
There’s something refreshing about a company that doesn’t just slap their logo on a tote bag and call it customer appreciation. SWNA Office’s Earth’s Hatch…
This Solar Pavilion Powers the Grid and Charges Phones from Its Seats
The typical park pavilion or bus-stop canopy offers shade but little else. A roof on posts that sits in the sun all day, casting shadows,…
This Japanese Cabinet Uses Real Forest Branches as Doors
There’s something deeply satisfying about furniture that refuses to stay in one place. Not in the sense that it walks around your living room, but…
This Kevlar Medical Brace Folds Flat Like Origami and Might Finally Kill the Plaster Cast
What do Swiss timepieces and sailing rigging systems have in common with orthopedic braces? More than you might think. The engineers at Osteoid drew inspiration…
iF Design Award Makes Sustainability 20% of Your Score: What Designers Need to Know in 2026
Yanko Design’s podcast, Design Mindset, continues to bring compelling conversations with design leaders who are shaping the future of the industry. Powered by KeyShot, the…
Award-Winning Microhome Actually Replenishes Groundwater While You Live In It
If you live in a place where drinking water and groundwater is not a major problem, then you’re one of the lucky ones. There are…
Someone Built a Biodegradable 8GB Hard Drive Out of Mushrooms
So here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: someone made a USB drive out of mushrooms. Well, technically mycelium, the sprawling fungal network that…