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…
Concept Designs
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…
What If the Internet Had a Building You Could Actually Walk Inside?
The internet has always been invisible. It moves information at a scale and speed the human mind can’t fully grasp, yet we access it through…
Gustav Friebel’s Red Lamp and the Art of Breaking Light Apart
The first time you look at Gustav Friebel’s Hands On Light, you might do a double-take. Is it a lamp? A science experiment? An art…
FutureWave’s Furny home robot talks to you by moving, not by talking
Most home robots ask a lot from the room they inhabit. They arrive with screens, speakers, wake words, and personalities, all requiring acknowledgment from whoever…
Seoul Has a New Shade of Cool, and It Folds Flat
Most urban design conversations center on permanence: the building, the plaza, the park. Fixed, costly, and slow to adapt. Seoul-based studio BKID Co is thinking…
A Designer Just Gave the Sandwich Maker the Concept It Deserved
Small appliances are the forgotten middle children of industrial design. We obsess over espresso machines and standing mixers, but the humble sandwich maker? It usually…
How One Loop of Bent Wood Became a Complete Chair
Every so often, a piece of furniture stops you the way a good sentence does. You read it once, then go back and read it…
The Stool Made From 100% Recycled Plastic That Looks Like Art
If you’ve ever tossed a plastic bottle cap into the recycling bin and wondered where it actually ends up, the Bit Stool might be the…