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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 mea...
These Non-Car Companies Should Design An EV
At the very least, it can't be worse than some of the other crap that has been put out there by already-established car companies.
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...
The Strange Beauty Of Soviet Bus Stops
Take a visual journey through the former Soviet Union to discover the beautiful and bizarre bus stops that served as rare spaces for artistic freedom.
I Tried 5 Different AI CAD Tools – Here’s The Results
AI is increasingly showing up in the tools I use and write about, but CAD still feels like one of the few places where it hasn’t quite landed properly yet. In...
These Are The Ugly Cars You're Willing To Defend
I wanted to know which cars you were willing to defend, and your answers got really interesting.
A Useful & Pleasant Poster for Following the World Cup
A good tournament poster lets you easily see what's ahead and track the current standings. If you image search for "world cup poster" you'll see lots of loud/bu...
Frankfurt’s Solar Lights That Look Better Than Your Living Room Lamp
If you've ever walked along a riverbank at night and squinted up at a buzzing fluorescent streetlamp wondering who designed that thing and why, Munich-based duo...
A Designer Just Gave the Sandwich Maker the Concept It Deserved
Small appliances are the forgotten middle children of industrial design. We obsess over espresso machines and standing mixers, but the humble sandwich maker? It...
A Deep Dive Into The Longing For Modern Nostalgia in Gaming – Why Retro-Inspired Works!
Take a trip down memory lane with me as I cover the longing for modern nostalgia in gaming and why this imitative sub-genre works so well.
Emotional UX: How to Make Users Fall in Love with Your Product
Explore how emotional UX strengthens engagement, loyalty, satisfaction, and meaningful user connections with digital products.
The $429 PhantomX Watch Has Four Rotating Arms That Tell Time Like a $50,000 URWERK
URWERK builds watches that cost as much as a compact car. The Geneva-based studio has spent decades engineering satellite hour complications, where orbiting arm...
Forget the Spare Room. The Box Is Here Now.
The spare room is a luxury. Most of us know this, even if we pretend otherwise. We squeeze guests onto pull-out sofas, loan them our beds and sleep on the couch...
At 9.6 Metres, the Cabarita Might Be the Most Livable Tiny Home on Wheels
There's a version of tiny home living that still feels like a proper home — not a camper van with aspirations, not a studio apartment on wheels, but something...
Graphic Design Trends Every Designer Should Try
Every few years, design goes through a visible shift — not a sudden break, but a gradual reorientation of what feels current versus what feels tired.
Quaint mountain town wallpaper for iPhone
Japan inspired architecture and scenery showcase individual scenes in these quaint mountain town wallpapers.
June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s kick off June — and the beginning of summer — with some fresh inspiration! Artists and designers from across the globe once again tickled their crea...
Create your own font the hard way!
Last major update on 23.10.2013 Preface As promised previously in my last article, I will guide you through the creation process of a rudimentary font. I will u...
Big AI & Design Systems Course updates!
https://youtu.be/iiFXSckYRM0 Chapters 1 & 2 of our AI & Design Systems Course are live! 🎉 Our course now has over 16 hours of videos, which includes...
GoTag Is the GPS Tracker Concept That Actually Looks Like It Matters
GPS trackers are one of the few gadget categories that never really got the design treatment they deserved. Most are anonymous pucks or plastic fobs, optimized ...
Now 26 Graphic design and Type design Conference in Paris, 30 May 2026
Join Now26 conference on Saturday 30 May 2026 in Paris. Celebrating typography with inspiring speakers from graphic design, type design, and more.
The 3D Printed Pencil Holder That Shames Everything Else on Your Desk
Most of us have a pencil holder we never actually chose. It's the ceramic mug you retired from coffee duty, or the branded giveaway from a conference two years ...
5 Compact Pocket Essentials Built for a Summer That Never Slows Down
Summer is a season that selects for you. The heat strips every bag to its absolute minimum, and what stays tells you something honest about what you actually va...
Why the Danish Concept of Coziness Starts With Seating
Learn the Danish concept of coziness and why seating is where it all starts.
How Claytronics Will Redefine Co-Creation and Experience Design
For decades, innovators and experience designers have been trapped in two dimensions (screens) or limited by static three dimensions (3D printing). What happens...