OBRO Just Turned Leather Waste Into Luxury Material
There’s something quietly radical about a material that refuses to hide what it’s made from. OBRO, a new composite from Japanese manufacturer Sanyo Co., Ltd.,…
Sustainable Design
5 Products Made from Cardboard: The Bench Supports 300 Pounds
Cardboard was once seen as just packaging, but it is now becoming a design hero. As sustainability and cost efficiency drive modern innovation, this humble…
If Sci-fi Gardening met MC Escher: Meet The Holocene House’s Floating Jungle Canopy
The pool doesn’t sit beside the house. It doesn’t occupy the backyard. It runs straight through the middle of the living space, dark-tiled and creek-like,…
The Mile-High Tower That Grows Food, Harvests Clouds, and Heals Chicago
Imagine looking up at a city skyline and knowing that inside those towers, food is growing, water is being harvested from clouds, and entire communities…
The Thoughtful Shopping Cart That Organizes, Protects, and Moves With You
Some of the most meaningful design innovations begin with noticing small everyday frustrations. That is exactly what inspired Brisbane-based inventor Michelle Hildebrand to rethink the…
Sway’s Compostable Bags Rethink Plastic as a Temporary Material
Sway continues to evolve its compostable plastic bags made from seaweed, offering a clear alternative to traditional plastic packaging that has long dominated retail and…
5 Biomimicry-based Architectural Designs That Copy Nature’s Best Ideas
Designers working across product design and interior architecture view the Amazon not as a backdrop, but as a lesson in how materials, forms, and systems…
Lie Under This Solar Roof and Watch the Sun Move in Real-Time
Most solar infrastructure is treated as background hardware, panels on roofs or fields that quietly feed the grid while public life happens somewhere else. That…
Michael Jantzen Just Turned Solar into a 16-Arm Moving Sculpture
Most renewable energy systems hide in plain sight. Rooftop solar panels blend into shingles, batteries sit in containers behind fences, and wind turbines spin in…
The Case for Heirloom Furniture in an Era Obsessed With Biodegradable Everything
Joe Doucet has always been good at saying uncomfortable things politely. His latest provocation, delivered via Columns, a furniture collection with Bulgarian studio Oublier, is…
Samsung’s 13-Inch E-Paper Housing Is Made from Phytoplankton Plastic
Printed signs get reprinted every week, while full LCD signage burns power all day just to show a static promo. E-ink has quietly solved this…
Lotte E&C Just Turned 5 Eggs Into the Welcome Gift You’ll Use
There’s something refreshing about a company that doesn’t just slap their logo on a tote bag and call it customer appreciation. SWNA Office’s Earth’s Hatch…