Aurelis Bag Concept Is Wearable Sculpture Without a Solid Shell
I don’t own a lot of unique-looking bags, as I’m more of a practical and utilitarian kind of bag owner. But I do like observing…
Concept Designs
Privacy Without More Walls: A Forest Villa Concept
An open floor plan can make cooking, reading, and catching up with friends feel pleasantly connected. It can also leave you with nowhere to withdraw…
Tupi’s Wooden Bird Lamp Has a Hidden Light Beneath Its Beak
Tupi’s oversized wooden beak looks like the kind of detail you’d add simply to make a lamp adorable. It also does the practical work. Beneath…
This MacBook Concept Brings Workshop Styling to a Familiar Laptop
Laptop shopping can get rather repetitive when even very different machines wear similarly restrained metal shells. MacBook Brutal explores an alternative, keeping the familiar clamshell…
BIG’s Tirana Proposal Adds Homes Without Walling Off the Park
The scalloped terraces of Fountain Plaza Tirana look a little like a stack of clouds that forgot to drift away. Underneath, slender columns leave room…
CHEKT’s Chessboard Refuses to Hide Its Layered Design
The carrying handle on Jess Wiseman’s CHEKT board is the detail that makes the design click for me. Chessboards have an awkward domestic life: leave…
This Robotic Pavilion Concept Would Change Its Layout Only When Empty
A public pavilion can give people somewhere to gather, but returning to it usually means finding the same spaces and following the same paths. Self-Assembling…
Orbit Clock Concept Lets You Pick Up Its Hour and Minute Markers
Clocks have become so familiar that we barely think about what their hands are doing. They point to positions around a circle, a habit that…
CLPR-01 Does for Calipers What Swiss Army Did for Knives
Most of us don’t carry a caliper around, even when a ruler isn’t quite up to the job. Try checking the width of a replacement…
The Desk Lamp Designed for Desks That Have No Room Left for One
Office lighting rarely cares whether you’re reading a document or squinting at a monitor. A desk lamp can help, but its sprawling base and arm…
3 Lamps Built From Objects Nobody Wanted Anymore
A room can have plenty of light and still feel oddly flat. Overhead fixtures handle the practical stuff, but they rarely give you a reason…
This Stool’s Best Feature Is the Part That’s Actually Missing From It
A stool usually has one job: hold you up for a while, then get out of the way. Ceil starts there, but leaves a circular…
A Reading Light That Actually Clips to Your Hair, Not Your Book
Any bookworm worth their salt has experienced reading a book under the covers with a flashlight after their parents said it was time for lights…
Bloom Built a Cat Tower Around the Cat You Haven’t Got Yet
A kitten might be happy with a hideaway, but give it a few months and that same nook starts looking cramped. Add another cat, and…
This Concept Lab Treats Its Black Hole the Way Others Treat a Skylight
Black holes are notoriously difficult to see, which makes designing a building around one a rather strange idea. The Black Hole Research Center, however, takes…
Nobody Redesigned the Allen Key for 115 Years. Here’s the Fix.
Some of the most personal furniture purchases come with the least personal tool. You bring home a crib, spread the pieces across the floor, and…