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15 innovative, wacky airplane seat designs
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Travel season is approaching, which means families and solo adventurers scrounging together funds for a summer getaway. If they plan on flying to their destination, they have a record…
MIT's virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument's final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that painstaking process with their new virtual violin. It's a…
How to mix flooring materials like a professional designer
With housing prices still sky-high, people are hunkering down and working with what they have. This year, experts at the Joint Center for Housing Studies predict spending on home remodels is expected to grow even more in 2026, accounting for an…
From Lighting to Modular Systems: ArchDaily's Selection of 13 Architect-Designed Objects at Milan Design Week 2026
Each spring, Milan Design Week 2026 transforms the city into a distributed platform for design culture, where prototypes, product launches, and research-driven explorations coexist across multiple scales, including a growing presence of…
These 4 Emerging Designers Prove That Fashion Is Art
Though celebrated at Monday's Met Gala, “Fashion is Art” is a defining ethos that pulses through the industry year-round, shaping creativity on and off the carpet. The Met Gala 2026 carpet dress code is ‘Fashion is Art' while…
What Skilled Outdoor Contractors Handle That Designers Do Not
A stunning outdoor plan on paper holds little value if the right hands aren't there to execute it. Designers bring vision through plant palettes, spatial layouts, and material selections. But shaping raw land, solving drainage problems, and…
It took 40 years for technology to catch up to this zipper design
In 1985, the Innovative Design Fund placed an ad in Scientific American offering up to $10,000 to support clever prototypes for clothing, home decor, and textiles. William Freeman PhD '92, then an electrical engineer at Polaroid and now an MIT…
7 'Slow Decorating' Rules Design Experts Swear By for a More Timeless Home
Whether you've just settled into a large, multi-room home or a compact city apartment, it's common to feel the urge to decorate everything as quickly as possible. It's understandable—living in a space that feels unfinished can make it hard…
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…
'It meant we got the design right': Resident Evil Requiem's producer on the DLSS5 Grace Ashcroft debacle
Back in March, Nvidia revealed unto the world DLSS5, the next version of its upscaling and frame generation tech. It was ugly as sin, turning Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft into, in the words of our own James, yassified Instagram models.
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…
I'm stoked for the iPhone Fold, but there's something else that's a much higher priority than a thin design
Whether Apple releases its first foldable device later this year, or delays it to 2027, I know a lot of people are going to focus on the design of the iPhone Fold. And why shouldn't they, especially after the ridiculous thinness we saw with the…
Leaked iPhone 18 Pro images reveal shrinking dynamic island - and it fixes one of the ugliest things about Apple's iconic design
Apple is hard at work on the iPhone 18 Pro line. Not only is the company predicted to use a more aggressive pricing strategy for it, but it'll also be the first phone released under John Ternus as CEO, making it a big deal. But what will make the…
Inside McLaren Golf: How the supercar-maker designed golf clubs
McLaren Golf unveiled the work it had been hinting at for the past couple of weeks: two different iron models, both built with MIM technology that provides performance both for better players (Series-1) and players looking for some help (Series-3).
Huge round of Pixel 11 leaks also suggests its 'Pixel Glow' design
A major batch of Pixel 11 leaks alleges the series' specifications, including the Pixel 11 Pro XL's 6.8-inch screen, 5,000mAh battery, and RAM options. Other rumors claim the Pixel 11 series will lose its temperature sensor for 'Pixel Glow,' an RGB…
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