The wooden mountain bench that becomes an emergency micro-shelter
Designed by Francesco Faccin for the Trentino Alps, Pancalpina looks like a simple wooden bench, but hides a survival kit and a tent to help those caught unprepared in the mountains.
Freitag proves even a cooler bag can become a design object
The Swiss upcycling brand reinvents one of summer's most overlooked accessories with a cooler bag made from reclaimed truck tarpaulins and other recycled materials.
As Bali changes at breakneck speed, design tries to point the way forward
Between architecture, craftsmanship, biophilia and local materials, Jia Curated returns to Sanur as the island continues its rapid transformation—offering an alternative model for how design, communities and landscapes might coexist.
Jasper Morrison designed a normal chair. And that is exactly the point
Presented at the 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, the Pack Chair designed by Morrison for Hay is a 'super normal' seat sold unassembled, conceived to be durable, accessible, and almost anonymous.
Now, Fritz Hansen wants us to listen to design
At 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, the Danish brand and Technics are unveiling a limited-edition collaboration that fuses light, sound, and analog objects: a Bauhaus-inspired lamp and a turntable designed to bring the design experience firmly into the present.
Musa is ADI’s 3D avatar. She will guide visitors through Milan’s Design Museum
For more than a decade, augmented reality in museums has often remained a limited add-on. At Adi Design Museum, however, Musa is a new interactive digital avatar that accompanies visitors through the Compasso d’Oro Collection, answers questions, and suggests personalized routes.
The paper book is not dead: it has become an aesthetic object
From Coach to BookTok, passing through Dior, Valentino, and bookshelves displayed on Zoom: in the era of screens, the printed book has not disappeared, but has acquired a new symbolic, aesthetic, and social value.
The exhibition where monkeys, rivers, and plants become design co-authors
At the Fondation Martell in Cognac, “Le singe et l’argile” explores the possibilities of co-creation between the human and non-human, transforming art and design into a laboratory for coexistence among species, matter, and the living.
Frankfurt is the world design capital and is using it to save democracy
Nominated World Design Capital 2026, the Frankfurt RheinMain metropolitan region has built its program around an unusual conviction: design can help strengthen democracy, making civic participation more open, inclusive, and accessible.
The Castiglionis’ vacuum cleaner understood the future better than today’s robots
Designed in 1956, Spalter turned a simple household appliance into an extension of the body. Nearly seventy years later, its vision of the relationship between people and technology feels remarkably contemporary.
Design is looking for new ways to come together, after the design weeks
From Lina Ghotmeh to Tom Dixon, from Lesley Lokko to Ma Yansong, the Global Design Forum leaves London for Istanbul to test a new format where design, criticism, storytelling and public space converge.
The robot that climbs stairs is just the beginning: Dreame now wants to govern the home
With its first major European event, the Chinese brand surprises not only with the engineering of its new products, but with a mature domestic vision aimed at building an integrated ecosystem beyond the robot vacuum cleaner.