When AR and VR meet the outdoors. This mixed reality headset was designed to be worn everywhere
Metaverse, meet universe. So much of our AR and VR experience is limited to the indoors. When the landline became a truly wireless (or cordless)…
Women In Industrial Design
This Dyson Award-winning injection-accessory may look terrifying, but it helps reduce your pain response while taking a jab
While its appearance could easily be mistaken for a fancy meat tenderizer, the James Dyson National Award-winning Pinsoft is an injection attachment that helps people…
This ergonomic washing machine design helps save our oceans by filtering out microplastics!
Martina Mancini’s Ocean washing system is as sustainable as it is ergonomic, with special filters that recycle out microplastics and hidden adaptive features for intuitive…
The Top 10 female industrial designers who are shattering traditions + tackling gender inequality with their product designs!
A while ago, one of Yanko Design’s Instagram posts played a huge role in exposing and shedding light on the gender bias in the design…
This massive luxurious superyacht concept comes with three hulls instead of one
It sort of looks like the Y-Wing Fighter from Star Wars, although designer Yeojin Jung says the superyacht’s split hull design is directly influenced by…
This flexible vase expands in size (like an accordion) as your plant grows bigger
Only 3% of plants survive being repotted when they grow too big for their old, smaller planter. I’m making that statistic up, it’s absolute nonsense……
Nintendo Gaming Smartphone concept images make the rounds with a very interesting camera detail!
Let’s put my fanboy logic aside and debate this purely on strategic grounds. Smartphones occupy 40% of the gaming industry by size, and 50% by…
This DIY watch-making kit’s latest design lets you build new mechanical timepieces with your own hands
In all fairness, what the Swiss watchmakers do is incredibly difficult, but the Rotate Watches give you a small taste of what it is like…
This instant noodle’s water-soluble packaging becomes its sauce!
The very concept of packaging instant noodles in plastic is baffling to me. The noodles take barely 5 minutes to cook, and another 5 minutes…
The sustainable alternative to LEGO are these building blocks entirely carved from timber
Classic toys like LEGO building blocks never go out of style. A quick Google search even proves that there’s a whole web of online stores…
This super-functional outdoor cloak transforms into a shelter to adapt to climate change!
Life is the best teacher, as long as you’re willing to listen. This is the backbone of designer Emi Tanimura’s design journey and what inspires…
Stool with an accordion-shaped seat plays a musical note when you sit on it!
The Xia Stool, or as I call it, the Philharmonic Whoopie Cushion Chair, is a fun little seat that uses an accordion-shaped cushion to turn…
Yanko Design’s latest showcase of women designers and their most innovative designs
On the 12th of December last year, we shared statistics from the Design Council Survey in 2018 that outlined an interesting fact. Even though design…
Using banana peels as a sustainable building material, you can now make everything from eyeglasses to watch straps!
Along with apples, bananas are the most popular fruits in the world. More than 100 billion bananas are eaten every year, with most of us…
Dyson Award-winning Blue Box helps women easily detect breast cancer at home
The Blue Box is perhaps one of the best examples of how design thinking and problem-solving can truly make a difference to the quality of…
These mittens were designed to reduce stress and prevent social anxiety
According to most studies, the number one fear people have is public speaking. We’re a heavily social species, which is why public perception or interaction…