A Portable Cork Brainstorming Stool For Literal Lightbulb Moments
Productive brainstorming rarely stays in one room. Teams move between floors, commandeer empty meeting rooms, or pull chairs into an open corner when a whiteboard…
Concept Designs
The Luxury Hotel Concept That Works Like a Food Truck for Wilderness
Luxury hotels have always had a location problem. The kinds of places that would make the most extraordinary backdrops, remote desert plains, rolling highland meadows,…
The Sunglasses Built for When You’re Actually in the Water
Every summer, I do the same thing. I bring my sunglasses to the beach, spend twenty minutes deciding where to put them once I get…
Nobody Designed a Drum Kit for Beginners. Until Boxboom.
Picking up the drums has always come with a quiet, frustrating tax. Before you’ve played a single beat, you’re already being asked to make a…
Smart Rings Finally Got a Reason to Exist Beyond Sleep Tracking
The smart ring market has had a good run on heart rate and sleep tracking. Oura, Samsung Galaxy Ring, and their growing circle of competitors…
A Designer Just Answered Facial Recognition With a Medieval Visor
Facial recognition has become one of the fastest-growing forms of infrastructure in public life. Cameras in airports, transit systems, retail spaces, and city streets capture…
Forget Tracking Kids After School, This Cute Device Lets Them Check In
Working parents of school-age children face a particular kind of worry during the hours between the end of the school day and the end of…
Bang & Olufsen’s New Speaker Concept Is a Ritual, Not a Device
Most speakers are designed to disappear. They sit on a shelf, blend into a bookcase, or hide in a cabinet, quietly doing their job until…
Replace 100 Tutorial Videos With This One Smart Keyboard
If you’ve ever tried to learn Photoshop, Illustrator, or pretty much any serious creative software on your own, you know the ritual. Open the app,…
This Tea Takeaway Cup Fixes The Bitter Oversteeped Tea Problem Beautifully
Most people who drink tea on the go will admit, at some point, that they’ve committed the great tea crime: leaving the bag in too…
Funnels That Harvest Rain and Solar Power While Shading a Public Plaza
Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces are designed primarily for social use, with…
This Vine-Shaped Winery Concept Can Grow Just Like a Real Vine
Winery architecture has long struggled to find the right balance between the rustic identity of viticulture and the ambitions of contemporary design. Most wineries reach…