Austria’s Clay Cooler Is the AC Killer Nobody Saw Coming
Every summer, the conversation around air conditioning goes roughly the same way. It’s hot, we turn on the AC, the electricity bill spikes, and we…
Concept Designs
The Urn With 4 Screens Showing Moving Images of the Person You Lost
Cremation urns have existed for thousands of years, but their design language has barely moved. They tend toward the ceremonial and the generic, pottery shapes…
The Inflatable Umbrella That Finally Makes Sense
Count how many umbrellas you’ve owned in your lifetime. Go ahead, try. Most people lose count somewhere around five or six, often because the memory…
Your Shelf Corner Is Wasted Space: This Clock Turns It Into a Bookend
Desk clocks have always had a spatial problem. They take up flat surface area that shelves and desks often can’t spare, and most serve no…
A Student Built Shelves That Fly Like Kites
The first image that stops you is the outdoor shot: a tall shelving unit suspended in open sky, hovering above a treeline, trailing a thin…
A Student Just Made a Pen From One Bamboo Stalk. No Factory Needed.
We don’t usually stop to think about pens. They show up in our bags, our drawers, the bottom of every tote we own, and when…
The Sculptural Speaker Concept That Sounds Good From Every Spot in the Room
Most wireless speakers look like speakers. They announce themselves with grilles and ports and branding, and they tend to disappear into a corner or a…
No Battery, No Tech: A Grad Just Solved Outdoor Worker Heat Stress
The numbers are hard to ignore. More than 2.4 billion workers are exposed to excessive heat globally, and according to the WHO and WMO, worker…
The Thermostat That Finally Looks Like It Was Designed
At some point, every well-designed room has a thermostat on the wall. And at some point, nearly every well-designed room has been slightly let down…
A Student Built a Buoy That Could Fix Seaweed Farming
Most of us don’t spend a lot of time thinking about seaweed. It turns up in sushi, drifts around in the ocean, and occasionally ruins…
This Concept Organizes the First 30 Seconds of Coming Home in the Rain
Home entryway products have a coverage problem. A shoe rack deals with footwear, but not the umbrella. An umbrella stand handles the wet item but…
Nothing Book laptop concept let’s you be more expressive with a slender secondary screen on the lid
Nothing has revived and redefined the see-through design aesthetics that blew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That era was highlighted by colorful…