A department store is designed to keep you moving through it. Yont Studio put six car seats and a wall of cassettes on the second floor of KaDeWe and asked Berliners to sit still.
Carwardine modelled the arm on the constant tension inside a human joint, and nobody has improved on it in ninety-one years. The lamp ships with a lifetime guarantee, which is a strange promise to make unless you mean it.
Nothing inside the ClearFrame is new; the transparent shell is the whole product. Why a see-through case makes a machine feel trustworthy, and what that says about everything sealed on your desk.
The most important component in this kit is one you have to go find yourself. It stopped being manufactured about fifteen years ago, and that is the whole point.
A sintered mineral filter handles both pour-over and gongfu tea, and nothing in the set wears out. The sharp edges are doing real work.
Camphor, saltpeter and sal ammoniac sealed in alcohol, growing crystals a Royal Navy admiral swore could read the coming storm. Science calls it a slow thermometer, and two centuries of windowsills have disagreed.
Hiroshi Ishii's Tangible Media Group is building communication channels with the dead. Not AI chatbots. Antique objects that hold the physical traces of people who once touched them.
Sabrina Merayo Nuñez grows lamps from algae and medieval paint recipes. They pulse when you walk up to them.
A modder took a 1995 Casio day planner and rebuilt the entire inside while leaving the outside untouched. The instinct here is the opposite of the cyberdeck: don't invent a new form for the silicon, find one that already knows what it wants to be.
Atsuhiko Misawa and Koji Tanada share KAAT's first-ever sculpture show, carving deer and children from single blocks of camphor wood. The technique is older than most countries. The argument is current.
Two e-ink screens, a hinge, and six centuries of book design. Diptyx is an open-source reader that closes like a codex and needs no account, no cloud, no case.
Back Market is running iPod Shuffle subway ads. TechCrunch just gave the friction-as-feature movement a name. The shift from maximum functionality to maximum well-being now has a market category.