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The stacking Shuffle Desk Tidy from RALLI Design is great for things beyond just paperclips and tacks. Use it for jewelry, gadgets, doodads, whatever. Made of six ceramic containers and six removable ash bases, you can stack them to organize in any configuration you’d like. If you’re like me, you want things in the same [...]

Jason Phillips is back with a beautiful design called Treforma. Made of bent, tinted glass, each table nests into one another to form one unit.

The newest addition to join Abu Dhabi’s list of cutting-edge and futuristically designed sky-scrapers is a parking lot named Compressive. Yes, you read it right, a parking lot. However, it is no ordinary parking lot, as this one boasts of an intuitive thinking which reacts to the weight of both you and your car. This [...]

Bashko Trybek‘s Serpent shelving is a modular system in which the user can choose the dimensions of the shelf and adjust them according to his or her needs.

For people who lose their sight as adults, learning Braille can sometimes feel like a defeat or a sacrifice. Newly-blind adults – particularly those who have lost their sight over time – may not want to admit to themselves that they can no longer read print. On the other hand, even those who have no [...]

Milwaukee-based designer Peter Pless is proud to present a clever new table design at the American Design Club’s “Use Me” exhibition this weekend. “Link” consists of seven rotating fiberboard discs on maple legs, connected with aluminum panels that transform each disc into a giant, flattened bike chain: “Inspired by the flexibility of a bicycle chain, [...]

Modular Lights by Robhoff (Robert Hoffman) are adjustable luminaries made of aluminium and steel. Simply turn and tilt the different faces of the light to get just the right amount of focused light you need. See one in action: (click here if you can’t see the video) Photography by Stephanie Neumann.

1ℓimit faucet looks more like an elegant test tube inverted on top of a tap. The glass tube holds exactly one liter of water, sufficient for a quick handwash. The theory being that we waste almost six liters of water and use only one, while washing hands. Once the stored one-liter is used up, you [...]

Most able-bodied folks probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how people with disabilities navigate the world, particularly in developing countries. However, Amos Winter did, and still does. Winter, a recent PhD graduate from the MIT department of Mechanical Engineering, went to Tanzania as part of his work in 2005. He wanted to [...]

As complicated as it can be, getting up in the morning has several really simple solutions, supposing you’re one not apt to be waking. One of them is TUI-AC, the Tangible User Interface Alarm Clock, a lovely little bomb that you set with a pin, turn, crank, and arm by releasing, and go ahead to [...]