Design is defined in so many ways, but perhaps the best involves the intersection of art and function – something that derives its beauty both from its appearance and the useful relationship of its parts and whole. Here you will find amazing examples from graphic, industrial, furniture fields that defy norms and push you to rethink the boundaries of everyday objects.
Tall, narrow volumes and awkward stepped sites are no problem when you arrange your interior spaces in a continuous flow of open platforms without walls. These unusual split-level home designs ...
Designers are always trying to reinvent the chair or improve the shoe, but zippers have stayed largely the same for a long time, which begs the question: is there room to innovate on this simple ...
Staircase mishaps cause a surprising number of accidental deaths every year (second only to car crashes), but the sleekness of these floating designs might make you want to live dangerously all ...
Product-tested by a husband-and-wife team of architects in their own abode, 'A Cat Thing' was developed to let pet owners construct an endless array of feline crawling, hiding and resting spaces ...
If your abiding love for the Star Wars franchise extends to collecting figurines but not to custom-building your own themed rooms quite yet, these projects might just kick you into that higher ...
Life's stressful enough without our stress relief balls freaking us out yet the more we squeeze these creepy stress aids, the more anxious we get. Caomaru means "round face" in Japanese, ...
Instead of swapping between rings and earrings for different occasions, why not keep the framework and trade out the colorful key element: the featured jewel. Inspired by Lego and ...
You don’t have to drastically shrink your whole life to fit into a 200-square-foot space in order to learn a space-saving trick or two from the tiny house movement. Builders and carpenters see ...
Not every office environment can be a multi-billion-dollar geodesic conservatory filled with tens of thousands of tropical plants, but there are lots of different ways to make boring workspaces ...
These new Shoes for Shoes combine sandals, galoshes, and, well, shoes, to create a hybrid fashion phenomenon making its way from the runways of Men's Fashion Week in Paris to a store near you. ...
