Jan 13, 2026once the text is ready, there’s an accompanying compact printer that produces the labels with braille using a proprietary pressing mechanism.
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apps (149)
Jan 13, 2026
Dec 04, 2025OPERATOR turns the act of music production into a visual, spatial, and inherently playful building exercise.
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ressence watches (8)
using the brand’s ROCS system, the design shows time through rotating discs instead of hands.
connections: +440
Dec 04, 2025the oil removes the usual bending of light in watches, and because of that, the time on the discs looks close to the glass and clear from all angles.
connections: +490
timepiece design (429)
Feb 28, 2026each dial shows the real day cycle of that planet, so the clock doesn’t calculate time digitally but copies planetary spin to show day and night.
connections: +430
Feb 24, 2026the stepped levels create measurable depth, and their edges cast controlled shadows that function as precise visual guides.
connections: +440
marc newson (51)
Dec 04, 2025the oil removes the usual bending of light in watches, and because of that, the time on the discs looks close to the glass and clear from all angles.
connections: +490
Oct 01, 2025on october 6th, 2025, the brand is set to release the wearable and functional objects, from bags, lamps, and glasses to surfboards, ceramic plates, and pieces of luggage.
fashion technology (85)
Jan 27, 2026static electricity forms the conceptual basis of the research by designer wren walker.
connections: +170
Dec 23, 2025from gustaf westman's spiral baguette holder to vollebak's virus-killing jacket, designboom looks back at the top fashion stories that defined the year.
robots (600)
Mar 05, 2026designed to be a companion, the device is meant to live in a home the way a pet does: nearby, responsive, and emotionally present.
Feb 27, 2026the project critiques the idea of fixed historical truth, positioning history as perpetually in flux.
personal technology (201)
Mar 07, 2026the three modules collect the electromagnetic fields from around the house and store them into the devices so owners can reuse them.
connections: +330
Mar 05, 2026EntoPedia reframes insect collecting as documentation and learning.
yukai engineering (6)
no longer a prototype, the portable device looks around and reacts to what happens near it or on it using the ‘special’ algorithm.
Jan 07, 2025while holding onto the bag handles like a koala or a sloth, the device with a sensor rotates its head and slightly bows to acknowledge passersby.
architecture in miami (159)
Feb 07, 2026the project proposes incremental density within a limited urban footprint.
connections: +4930
Dec 04, 2025the chromatic colonnade of pilar zeta's 'the observer effect' now stands at the shelborne, and will be on view throughout miami art week 2025.
connections: +900
public art (746)
Mar 03, 2026emily quandahl and madeline cochran's 'quilt shanty' transforms a hoop house into a patchwork artwork on lake harriet outside minneapolis.
connections: +830
Feb 26, 2026rootstudio’s interventions in oaxaca integrate perforated metal structures to bring public art to public transport.
retail interiors (827)
Mar 07, 2026blumarine opens a new, NM3-designed boutique in milan with spaces defined by travertine, pink corridors, and mirrored changing rooms.
connections: +1490
Mar 04, 2026the 180-square-meter space combines record retail, vinyl listening zones, a photo studio and community infrastructure.
marble and stone design (372)
Feb 25, 2026gardens and sculptural elements interlace the beach club’s architecture with its coastal landscape.
Feb 23, 2026the finish reveals different explorations in the execution of concrete, allowing textures and subtle variations to register across surfaces.
facades (464)
Mar 02, 2026exposed reinforced concrete defines the material expression.
Feb 28, 2026terraced courtyards extend the interplay between solid and void.
architecture in beijing (216)
Jan 14, 2026at the center of snøhetta's beijing art museum, a large circular atrium rises through multiple levels and draws daylight deep into the plan.
Jan 13, 2026MVRDV designs the tiffany & co. beijing flagship with a luminous skin of vertical glass fins which softly glow in tiffany blue.
architecture in china (2060)
Mar 04, 2026TAO's chenhu wetland art center is designed as an array of dispersed walls for a porous connection with the landscape.
Mar 03, 2026an hourglass plan configuration modulates the scale of the expansive forecourt.
connections: +2060
lamborghini (60)
Dec 03, 2025first commissioned for the sultan of brunei, the unique 1986 lamborghini LM002 wagon returns to global attention as it lists at auction.
connections: +1080
Oct 08, 2025the manifesto concept celebrates 20 years of lamborghini's design studio with a minimalist study that redefines the brand’s visual DNA.
connections: +1480
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