The buddy-cop genre has given us some iconic duos over the decades. Riggs and Murtaugh. Turner and Hooch. Axel Foley and basically everyone who had the misfortune of partnering with him. But when Disney released Zootopia in 2016, they quietly produced one of the genre’s all-time great pairings in Nick Wilde and Judy...
The Tommy Tiny House Is Proof That Six People Don’t Need Much Space
Six people, one trailer — and nobody had to sleep on the floor. The Tommy tiny house by Craft House is a dual-loft mobile home that sits at just 23.6 feet long and 8.2 feet wide, yet somehow manages to sleep six people without making anyone feel like they drew the short straw. Built by the Poland-based European...
5 Reasons Your Kitchen’s Range Hood Is Already Obsolete
Steam rises at roughly one metre per second. A range hood, mounted anywhere from 60 to 90 centimetres above the cooktop, is waiting near the ceiling while a meaningful portion of what just came off the pan has already drifted sideways into the room. This is the physics problem BORA has been solving since 2007, when...
Atari’s 1980 Arcade Classic Just Became a Limited Edition Automatic Watch
Gaming and watchmaking have been circling each other for years, trading collaborations that usually land somewhere between cynical and forgettable. The Hamilton x Call of Duty watch exists. The G-Shock x Street Fighter collection exists. Casio has licensed more IP than most studios at this point. Nubeo looked at all of...
10 Genius Camping Gadgets That Make You Wonder Why You Ever Slept in a Normal Bed
Camping gear has quietly crossed a threshold. The category once dominated by cheap nylon and bulk-heavy setups is now producing objects that solve real problems with the kind of precision you expect from an industrial design studio. These aren’t novelties. They’re the kind of tools that make returning to standard...
Seoul Has a New Shade of Cool, and It Folds Flat
Most urban design conversations center on permanence: the building, the plaza, the park. Fixed, costly, and slow to adapt. Seoul-based studio BKID Co is thinking differently, and the result is the Seoul Shade, a compact, foldable sunshade that quietly challenges the idea that public comfort has to be built into the...
KantorGG Just Built a Tropical Home That Faces the Wrong Way
Most tropical homes try to open up. Floor-to-ceiling glass, wraparound terraces, the constant push-pull between inside and outside air. It’s practically a formula at this point. So when a house comes along that deliberately turns away from that instinct, you stop and pay attention. SE House, designed by Giovanni...
CASETiFY releases an original Tamagotchi, phone cases, charms, and exclusive accessories to pique nostalgia
Tamagotchi, the virtual pet created by Bandai, a Japanese toy manufacturer, was seen constantly hanging from schoolbags in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was growing up. As brands now consistently mine millennial nostalgia for Gen-Z delight, many collaborations in the recent past have given birth to or revived...
ASUS ProArt Just Closed the Gap Between a Laptop and a Workstation
Creative professionals have been carrying a compromise for years. The laptop powerful enough for serious work tends to be too heavy or too loud, and the one thin and light enough for a day bag can’t handle the work. Purpose-built workstations solve the performance side but solve nothing about portability. The gap...
The Space Age Never Left, RETROCORE Just Made It Official
Every few years, design circles get swept up in nostalgia for a very specific era: the 1960s vision of the future. The curved furniture, the orbital shapes, the warm glow of a lamp that feels both alien and oddly cozy. We keep returning to it because, as futures go, it was a beautiful one to imagine, full of optimism...