When Guillaume Bloget arrived at France’s Rhizome Association for a research-creation residency, he was surrounded by lakes. Most people would have simply enjoyed the view. Bloget looked at the water and immediately started thinking about how to cut through it. The result is Sharp, a kayak built from folded aluminum...
This Belgian Brutalist Villa Doesn’t Sit on the Dunes — It Grew Out of Them
The Belgian coast has always attracted the slightly surreal — fishermen on horseback, a ship-shaped restaurant, and now, a concrete villa that looks like it was carved out of the dune rather than built on top of it. In Oostduinkerke, on a corner plot at the edge of a protected dune reserve along Belgium’s North Sea...
Oakley Just Turned a Math Paradox Into a $997 Sunglass
A Möbius strip walks into a design lab. That’s not the setup for a joke. It’s basically the origin story of Oakley’s Infiniloop, the brand’s latest creation and, arguably, one of the more conceptually ambitious pieces of eyewear to come out of any label in recent memory. If you’ve ever found yourself staring...
ASUS ROG Raikiri II Pro adapts to every game with switchable triggers and 8,000Hz input speed
When the ROG Raikiri Pro controller burst onto the scene at CES 2023, the gamepad was ahead of its time courtesy of a dedicated 1.3-inch mini OLED display. Now, after nearly three years, Asus has revealed the next version of the controller with improved features and upgrades to entice gamers who are always on the...
The Chair That Came From a Single Obsessive Question
Most chair designs start with ergonomics, or materials, or a client brief. Emad Lajevardi started with a question. What if a single line could remain free and independent, yet still become the entire structural body of a chair? That question alone could have lived quietly in a sketchbook. Instead, it became the Stitch...
Ovuud’s Reactor Is the Nightlight Designers Actually Want
Most nightlights are afterthoughts. A dim plug-in tucked behind a dresser, maybe something shaped like a mushroom from a big-box store. They exist to serve a single function: keep you from stubbing your toe at 2 a.m. Nobody really talks about them. Nobody really considers them. That changed for me when I came across...
9 Best Travel Gadgets for Summer 2026 That Survive Both Airport Security and Instagram
The bag at the gate tells you everything about the trip someone is about to take. Most carry-ons bear the evidence of decisions made at midnight before an early flight: a tangle of cables, three chargers each handling one job, headphones shoved in without a case. This list is an argument for doing it differently. Nine...
Get Ready for the Pavilion That Was Designed by the Sun Itself
Architecture has always had to reckon with the sun. Buildings are oriented, shaded, and glazed in response to it, and solar panels are bolted onto them afterward. In most cases, the sun’s behavior is accommodated rather than consulted. The resulting forms come from a designer’s intentions and a structural...
What If Your Earbuds Could Help You Sleep After They Played Music And Podcasts All Day?
After roughly 14 years at Samsung and then more than 20 years engineering Bluetooth audio, much of it developing products for and alongside Samsung’s ecosystem, Juwon Heo began asking a new kind of question. He had dedicated his career to making earphones sound clearer and connect more reliably. He helped perfect the...
This 24-Foot Tiny Home From Australia Proves Small Space Design Is All About Intention
Most tiny homes ask you to sacrifice. The Springbrook 7.2 doesn’t. The Springbrook 7.2 from Gold Coast–based Removed Tiny Homes is the opposite of that. Named for its 7.2-meter length (23.7 feet), it’s a build that makes a convincing case for intentional design over raw square footage. Built on a standard trailer...