The first time I saw a photo of Klumpen, I thought someone had dropped a monolith into the Arctic tundra. A matte black pyramid, impossibly sharp against the snow, with a sliver of warm amber …
The Projector Concept That’s Almost Too Beautiful to Use
Most concept designs exist to generate buzz, collect awards, and then quietly disappear. The BeoLens Horizon, a projector concept imagined by French industrial designer Baptiste Baumeister, feels different. It feels like a glimpse into a …
This E Ink Foldable Phone Concept Punishes Doomscrolling by Design
Most smartphones are designed to be impossible to put down. The screen faces up on every table, the display lights up for every notification, and the cost of checking it one more time is exactly …
XbooK’s $1,999 Triple-Screen Laptop Is One Bag Instead of Three Monitors
Anyone who has worked remotely long enough knows the moment a single laptop screen stops being enough. It’s usually the day you’re cross-referencing three documents at once, or the morning you realize your financial model …
8 Best Desk Accessories for Men That Don’t Look Like They Came From a Corporate Supply Closet
There’s a version of a desk setup that communicates everything about how little thought went into it. A black mesh organizer from the bottom shelf of a supply closet. A mouse pad that came free …
When Your Speaker Is Also a Puzzle, Music Hits Different
Most speaker designs ask a pretty simple question: how do we make this thing louder and smaller? Merge asks a completely different one. How do we make music something you can actually take apart? Created …
The Shargeek 300 is a Cyberpunk-style Power Bank that can charge two MacBook Pros
Power banks have spent years being boring on purpose. Black rectangles, white rectangles, the occasional textured finish. The category settled into a kind of utilitarian invisibility, as if the industry collectively decided that anything …
A Wind-Powered Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls
I have to be upfront: I did not expect a tumbleweed to be one of the most exciting design concepts I’d encounter this year. Tumbleweeds, in the cultural imagination, belong to Westerns and dusty ghost …
Snøhetta Built a Metro Station in Riyadh That Reflects the Entire City Back at You
There is a moment, the architects at Snøhetta will tell you, when you step off the train at Qasr AlHokm and look up, and the entire city of Riyadh looks back at you. That is …
Stay Classy, San Diego: This LEGO Anchorman Set Recreates the Entire Channel 4 Newsroom in 1,500 Bricks
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy turned twenty in 2024, and somehow, the film has only gotten funnier with age. What started as a Will Ferrell comedy about a hilariously fragile male ego navigating the …