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"Muji Is Not A Trend": How Design Fuels Muji's Growth
With around 400 stores in Japan alone, and another 300 operating internationally, housewares brand Muji shows no signs of slowing its rapid clip of expansion. For the past 35 years, the company has...
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Catapult to Safety With This CO2-Fueled Pool Parachute
If you abide by the mantra of safety first, consider the Kingii, a gadget that will rocket a struggling swimmer above water, courtesy of a CO2-filled balloon.Just strap the Kingii to your wrist, yank...
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Turn Your Music Into A Beautiful, Glowing Beacon
Bluetooth speakers have become so ubiquitous to the point that it causes fatigue. You can get a levitating soccer ball speaker, one that learns your taste through complex algorithms, and a petite a...
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Can You Design Innovation?
Picture a gleaming building wrapped around an expansive tree-filled courtyard. All the walls are glass so you can see what's happening in the ground-level retail and open-plan offices on the upper...
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How Wayfinding Guru Lance Wyman Defined the Field of Environmental Graphics
When you visit a foreign (or not so foreign) city, maneuvering the streets can either fill you with ease or utter frustration. This is all due to wayfinding, a visual language that communicates how to...
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Brunch Better With These Gorgeous Ceramics From Vipp
Vipp—the Danish company known for its spendy retro trash bins and slick modular kitchen system—has brought its beautifully spartan sensibility to the dining room in the form of a six-piece tabletop...
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Travel Around The World—In A Visual Alphabet
Wanderlust flows through the veins of Rigved Sathe and Payal Jagwani. To share their passion, the Pune, India–based graphic design students paired the world's most scenic destinations to the 26 letters...
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Give Your Home A Jolt of Color With HAY's Punchy Wares
One of the great frustrations with modern furniture, lighting, and accessories is that much of it is simply out of reach price-wise. The Danish brand HAY, established in 2002, offers up vivid,...
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Civilize Cocktail Hour With This Swanky Minibar
For Wallpaper's Handmade exhibition, designer Cecilie Manz—whose work for Bang & Olufsen you may recognize—collaborated with the Danish furniture company Rud Rasmussen on a modern minibar concept....
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Ilse Crawford's Back-To-The-Land Line for Ikea
Ilse Crawford's new Sinnerlig line for Ikea doesn't feel very Ikea—there's no melamine, graphic patterns, or bold hues that the brand is often associated with. Instead it's about stoneware, steel,...
View ArticleWatch: Philippe Starck Explains Why He Doesn't Believe In Underwear
"The panty is one of the hugest lies I know," Philippe Starck says in a diatribe against underwear. The prolific French designer has created everything from helmets to sofas and juicers, but it's safe...
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Art Or Design?: Welcome To The Improvisational Carpentry Of Nicolás Aracena...
Amid the pristine galleries in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, Nicolás Aracena Müller was busy in the half gallery, half design boutique Chamber. Sawing, hammering, and drilling away at slabs of...
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How A Philosophy Of "Informed Creativity" Drives Design At Map
Upon opening Kano, a DIY computer, you're greeted with a vibrant orange keyboard, neatly coiled color-coded cables, a circuit board, and illustrated manuals are as artfully boxed as any Apple device....
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Would You Buy This Stackable Furniture Kit For Tiny Apartments?
So you've decided to chuck it all and move into a tiny apartment. Good for you! But what about the odd occasion when you have to accommodate more guests than your petite couch can handle? Michal...
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Graava Is A Smart Action Cam For Adrenaline Junkies Who Don't Want to Edit...
Think of how your brain makes memories. You can recall certain moments with crystal clarity: when your child was born, when you first sampled VR, that epic burrito you had at Chipotle. And other...
View ArticleA Fascinating Satellite View Of One Square Mile
Aerial photography offers no shortage of eye candy. Take, for instance, the accidental typography of buildings, which can only be seen from above. Or the Kodachrome colors of landscapes. The Jefferson...
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This Disaster-Relief Structure Packs Flat And Assembles In An Hour
Not to sound horribly pessimistic, but disaster can strike at anytime. Be it an earthquake, hurricane, flood, fire, or another malady, the best you can do is prepare for whatever hits, and have a plan...
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A Metronome-Inspired Interface For Streaming Music Makes Finding New Tunes A...
The good thing about Spotify is the thousands of songs at your fingertips. The near infinite database is also bad thing for some, since discovering new tunes or picking an album can take a lot of...
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3M's Forthcoming Design Center Riffs On The Archetypal Minnesota Cabin
3M is the poster child for successfully forging a culture of innovation, but what about nurturing a culture of design? Well, the brand's Minnesota HQ is about to overhaul one of its buildings to house...
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Visualized: Global Trade As A Frenzy Of Color-Coded Pixels
There's a rule of thumb that to have a healthy diet, you should eat the rainbow—meaning fruits and veggies of all colors. A similar notion could be applied to a country's economic health. The more...
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