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The Moon Is Always Doing Something. Now There Is a Device for Noticing.
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The Moon Is Always Doing Something. Now There Is a Device for Noticing.

A circular screen, an ESP32, and a German maker's own photograph of the moon as the texture map. The choice most builders would skip is the one that gives the object its weight.

Jul 23, 2026 →
Life-Sized Animals Carved From Single Blocks of Camphor Wood, Inside a Theater That Has Never Shown Sculpture
Daily Post-Functional Design Analog Revival New Aesthetics

Life-Sized Animals Carved From Single Blocks of Camphor Wood, Inside a Theater That Has Never Shown Sculpture

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.

Jul 21, 2026 →
The Barbican Just Filled Its Brutalist Sculpture Court With a 24-Meter Pavilion of Clay, Hay, and Spice
Daily Post-Functional Design New Aesthetics The Warm Frontier

The Barbican Just Filled Its Brutalist Sculpture Court With a 24-Meter Pavilion of Clay, Hay, and Spice

Delcy Morelos hand-built an earthen pavilion the length of a basketball court inside the Barbican's concrete Sculpture Court. The walls are clay, hay, and antifungal spice, made to live and breathe through the summer.

Jul 18, 2026 →
An E-Reader Shaped Like an Actual Book
Daily Open Hardware Analog Revival New Aesthetics

An E-Reader Shaped Like an Actual Book

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.

Jul 15, 2026 →
A 120-Year-Old Silversmith Made a Sterling Silver Yo-Yo. The Dents Are the Point.
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A 120-Year-Old Silversmith Made a Sterling Silver Yo-Yo. The Dents Are the Point.

Sterling silver yo-yos, stone dice, a toad-shaped ring toss. Georg Jensen's new games collection treats dents and scratches as proof of life, not damage.

Jul 13, 2026 →
A Speaker That Knows Where You Are, and Whispers
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A Speaker That Knows Where You Are, and Whispers

At Columbia's 2026 MFA thesis show, an artist from the Iyarhe Nakoda Nation lists "my ancestor's stories" as a material, equal to wood and ribbon. The room fills with sound that knows where you are sitting, and refuses to be louder than that.

Jun 26, 2026 →
Good Night Light: CW&T at SHINE
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Good Night Light: CW&T at SHINE

Cooper Hewitt award winners Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy made a bedside lamp for SHINE, the seventy-designer lighting survey curated by Harry Allen. When calm-tech makers turn to the bedroom, the bedroom changes.

Jun 24, 2026 →
Sugimoto Designed His Own Singapore Show as a Mandala, and Put 14 of His Fossils in It
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Sugimoto Designed His Own Singapore Show as a Mandala, and Put 14 of His Fossils in It

The artist designed the gallery layout himself, as a circular mandala mirroring the Five Elements. Then he set 14 fossils from his personal collection inside it.

Jun 18, 2026 →
The 6.5-Meter Sculpture You Play by Hopping on a See-Saw
Daily New Aesthetics Post-Functional Design

The 6.5-Meter Sculpture You Play by Hopping on a See-Saw

A 6.5-meter tangle of horns and spinning mobiles sits in a Sydney walkway, and the only way to make it sing is with your body. Two see-saws and a row of faders turn whoever walks past into the orchestra.

Jun 10, 2026 →
The Geometry Was Already in the Stone: Javier Riera's Light Work on Customs House
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The Geometry Was Already in the Stone: Javier Riera's Light Work on Customs House

Spanish artist Javier Riera spends months shaping geometries pulled from shells and honeycombs, then projects them onto a Sydney landmark until the stone seems to reveal a pattern it was hiding all along. Light handled as a tool for noticing, at the scale of a building.

Jun 3, 2026 →
Yamaha Took the Word “Herringbone” Literally. The Amp Grille Is a Fish.
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Yamaha Took the Word “Herringbone” Literally. The Amp Grille Is a Fish.

Designer Koji Notomi went to a fish market, bought a herring, and dissected it by hand. The skeleton became the grille of a Yamaha amp, and the etymology of a pattern you have seen a thousand times suddenly snaps into focus.

May 31, 2026 →
Hermès Turned Its Tokyo Gallery Into a Club for the Dead. It Closes Sunday.
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Hermès Turned Its Tokyo Gallery Into a Club for the Dead. It Closes Sunday.

Andrius Arutiunian's 'Obol' stages a futuristic afterlife in bitumen, silver coins, and synthetic choir, drawing on Greek funeral rites and underground rave aesthetics in equal measure. Five days left to catch the strangest argument for ritual technology in Tokyo this spring.

May 28, 2026 →
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