17+ hour, 42+ min ago  (434+ words) The week before Milan Design Week 2026, Studio Smarin did something unusual at BASE Milano: they opened a workshop, invited strangers in, and handed them tools to build the installation's furniture. Over several days, more than 200 people, including students, local workers,…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (284+ words) The consolidation is not just logistical. It is a statement about the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of design practice " the reality that the most interesting work rarely stays within the boundaries of a single field, and that the most productive conversations…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (308+ words) Now, we have its successor. The SXC-1 is a standalone portable sampler that first appeared as a prototype at one of the world's largest music industry trade events, NAMM 2026, and it sits aesthetically somewhere between a game console and a…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (232+ words) Genesis consists of 7 light objects, consisting of 4 table lamps, 2 pendant lamps, and a floor lamp, each cast from a self-formulated bioplastic composite of starch, gelatin, glycerin, water, and edible pigments. These substances are the materials of kitchens and living systems,…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (516+ words) When we talk about renewable energy for homes or small businesses, we immediately think of solutions like solar panels, forgetting another fundamental resource that's freely available: wind. Reminding us that wind power is also an opportunity for everyone is Wind…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (690+ words) designwanted. com Releaf: the design challenge of making sustainable plastics desirable The installation, presented by Hoogvliet Jongerius in collaboration with Releaf, brings recycled and bio-based plastic to a practical, industrial, real level. During design-related events, new materials have become a…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (923+ words) Lise Vester, a designer who struck me immediately because of her work. At first glance, her design felt like a well-balanced combination between functional objects and objects that can be narrated. There was something practical, but also something that clearly…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (246+ words) Previous winning projects include Hottie, a wearable addressing menstrual pain, and Artificial Body Positivity, a set of redesigned luxury prosthetics that challenged the stigma attached to amputees and mobility aids. About relating NURA to the brief, the designers say, "mobility…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (211+ words) As cities continue to densify and urban growth places increasing pressure on available land, designing a school means confronting a (more or less) pressing question: how can quality educational spaces be created when space itself is becoming scarce? The challenge…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (299+ words) In recent years, design applied to medicine has increasingly demonstrated how collaboration between these fields can help create new products and tools or improve their usability or lifecycle. One example of this approach is Urify, which combines a toilet hygiene…...