BMW Motorrad Vision CE brings a fresh spin to urban mobility with helmet-free safety

BMW Motorrad has been at the forefront of innovative designs that hold an exciting future-forward appeal. The motorcycle division of the German automaker has unveiled yet another prototype targeted towards the more modern riders who like freedom of exhilarating rides without having to worry about safety. The Vision CE...

Are These Gold-Plated Headphones the Ultimate Flex or Just Unnecessary?

Sometimes a product crosses my feed that feels less like a piece of consumer technology and more like an artifact from a slightly wealthier, parallel universe. The Erzetich Charybdis Gold headphones are exactly that. At first glance, they look like something a pharaoh would wear while listening to lossless audio files...

hay bales unroll into trace of land installation across alpine terrain in italy

ELSE Design reinterprets the hay bale as a sculptural installation   Trace of Land by ELSE Design reinterprets the hay bale as a spatial installation that unfolds across the pastures of Val Badia in the Italian Dolomites. Presented as part of SMACH 2025, the international open-air art biennale, the project transforms an...

‘I Thought It Was Just a Headache. It Turned Out to Be a Ruptured Brain Aneurysm.

It was a typical Monday for Latina entrepreneur and mother of two, Angela Sustaita-Ruiz. She was wrapping up a Zoom meeting when she says she experienced the worst headache in he’ life. She didn’t know it at the time, but she was in a life-threatening situation. And what started as an ordinary weekday in 2022 would...

Two new LEGO Nike sets rise up for slam dunk, fans gear up to build their own court victory

We never expected it to be any different, but the LEGO x Nike collaboration is really raining kicks, bricks, and a whole lot of fan love. It all started with the fully co-branded Nike Dunk x LEGO Set, an inspiring creation that celebrates imagination, sneaker culture, and the spirit of basketball. That breathtaking...

Light installation at Burning Man plays around with spatial design

At the heart of Burning Man 2025, a striking new installation is redefining what’s possible in art, technology, and immersive environments. “The Point of Unity,” created by Ukrainian light designer and artist Mykola Kabluka, has quickly become one of the most talked-about highlights of the festival. This...

Keycap-shaped Laptop Concept Channels Lofree’s Retro Charm

There’s something undeniably satisfying about the tactile click of a well-made mechanical keyboard, isn’t there? Lofree has built an entire brand around that feeling, creating retro-inspired keyboards that make typing feel like an event rather than a chore. Their warm color palettes and rounded keycaps have spawned...

Hisense 116UX RGB Mini-LED TV Becomes First Consumer Display with Dolby Vision 2 Technology

Living rooms have long suffered from a persistent problem: dark movie scenes that leave viewers squinting at murky shadows, adjusting brightness settings, and missing crucial visual details. Even premium TVs with impressive specifications often fail to deliver the director’s intended vision when ambient light...

Industrial Design Student Work: Finding a Use for Bark in Furniture

This project was done by Denise Merlette, as her diploma project in Industrial Design at ECAL. Merlette seeks to turn what is considered by most furniture designers to be a useless part of the tree, the bark, into a useful resource. "Barko is a research project aimed at reusing bark as a waste product in the wood...

Designers Weigh In on the 2025 Audi TT Concept

There is a great conversation happening about the new Audi TT concept on the Core77 Boards — add your TTwo cents on the latest version of the perennial designer touchstone... A couple of enlightening quotes from Audi's Chief Creative Officer on the new concept: Massimo Frascella: "That's true. In 1998, when the first...