Deniz Aktay Just Built a Side Table from a Single Tube Bent Twice

Side tables have a bit of an identity problem in furniture design. Most treat them as purely functional afterthoughts, giving you a flat surface at the right height and not much else. The ones that do try to stand out tend to overcorrect, piling on decorative legs, unusual proportions, or materials that compete with...

LEGO’s Mini SEGA Genesis kit lets you relive retro gaming nostalgia right on your work desk

LEGO has previously shown confidence in gaming console remakes in brick versions, including Game Boy, Atari 2600, and NES. However, SEGA has not been a part of LEGO’s scheme of things, that is, until now. The LEGO Group has revealed its first-ever Genesis Console set developed in collaboration with SEGA. This set...

5 Gifts for the Person Who Takes Beer More Seriously Than Anyone Else You Know

Some people drink beer. Others study it, serve it with real intention, and actually feel the difference between a proper pour and a careless one. For that person in your life — the one who owns a specific glass for a specific brew and can tell you exactly why foam matters — a six-pack isn’t enough. What they need...

This Korean Partition Uses A Periscope-Inspired Design To Reflect The Sky In Your Room

Most of us living in cities have gotten used to a very particular kind of light. It comes in flat and filtered through glass, bounced off neighboring buildings, and stripped of any real sense of time. Morning looks a lot like afternoon. The sky, if you can see it at all, is a narrow strip somewhere above the roofline....

Nytrus Reserve Just Put a Meteorite in Your Whiskey Glass

Before we talk about the glass itself, let’s take a moment to appreciate the audacity of the idea. Someone looked at a 4.6-billion-year-old space rock, pulled from the ground in northern Argentina, and thought: what if we put it inside a whiskey tumbler? The result is the Nytrus Reserve Meteorite Tumbler, and I have...

Stop Buying a Separate RV Heater. This 16,000 BTU RV Air Conditioner Does Both

There’s a moment every RV owner knows: you’ve been hiking all day in 95-degree heat, you’re covered in dust and questionable decisions, and you open the door to your trailer expecting relief. Instead, you get a wall of stagnant air that somehow feels hotter than outside. Your rooftop AC has been running for three...

The Mechanical Keyboard Grew Up – And It’s As Smart As Your Laptop

Fifty years of keyboard design, and the basic contract never changed: switches under keycaps, keycaps under fingers, fingers making typos. The mechanical keyboard revival of the 2010s gave us better switches, heavier brass plates, and an entire hobbyist economy built around sound profiles and spring weights, but the...

Ideas Are Dead. Why Execution Matters More for Designers in 2026

Yanko Design’s Design Mindset, powered by KeyShot, continues to carve out a thoughtful space for conversations around creativity, process, and the way design is evolving in real time. Now at Episode 21, the weekly podcast has become a compelling extension of the publication’s larger design lens, moving beyond...

The $17,000 Micro Cabin That Makes Every Other Tiny Home Look Overpriced

I must admit there is a certain freedom in stripping things back to exactly what you need and nothing more. That’s the quiet confidence behind the Mantra, the newest micro cabin from Florida-based Simplify Further Tiny Homes — and at $17,000, it might just be the most straightforward shelter concept to come along...

Morocco’s Mohammed VI Tower: The Rocket That Rewrote Africa’s Skyline

There are buildings, and then there are statements. The Mohammed VI Tower, inaugurated on April 23, 2026, in Salé, Morocco, belongs firmly in the second category. Rising 250 metres across 55 floors on the east bank of the Bouregreg River, it is now the tallest building in Morocco and the third tallest on the African...