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Methaphone is a Cheeky, Clear Slab of Acrylic and Nothing More

Ever reach for your phone, desperate for a dopamine hit, only to realize it’s just a slab of clear acrylic in your pocket? Meet the Methaphone: part prank, part personal trainer for your impulse control. Many of us are obsessively checking our phones, whether there’s a reason to or not. So, the makers of Methaphone created this entirely non-functional facsimile, as a gag, only to realize it…

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Seiko's Exhibition Showcases Watches That 99% of People Don't Need

Seiko has been making purpose-built watches for well over a century, with the company’s founding back in 1881. They introduced the world’s first commercial quartz wristwatch in 1969, which kicked off an entire watch movement. As part of the company’s long standing Power Design Project, employees are encouraged to explore what ways a watch can be reimagined, or rethought. This year’s…

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Skymill is a Delightful Kinetic Weather Sculpture

Meet Skymill, the desktop  weather sculpture that turns your forecast into a graceful metal ballet. Designed by Gustav Rosén and crafted by KLONG, it brings you something far more poetic than a bland digital readout.   🌦️ What it Does Live Weather, In Motion  Nine handcrafted metal icons (sun, cloud, rain, wind, snow, moon) rise and fall in real time, reflecting current conditions in a silent,…

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Huge Butterfly Murals Bring Buildings to Life

French street artist Youri Cansell—better known as Mantra—paints giant, hyper-realistic butterflies on buildings. These murals look like enormous specimen boxes you’d find in a natural history museum. Complete with painted shadows and detailed wings, it’s trompe l’oeil at its quietest, turning blank walls into windows onto nature. We love the simple purity of the designs, and the bit of shadow…

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Herbert Leupin's Iconic Posters From the 1940s

Herbert Leupin was the Swiss designer who taught posters to grin. In the 1940s he took the straightforward “Sachplakat” (object poster) and made it dance. He was known for using bold color, playful puns, and whimsical characters that made you pause, chuckle, and remember. Even advertisements for mundane items were made fascinating. In Leupin’s world, a jar of jam could sprout cherries wearing…

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- • Fog Signals - • Weekly Round Up, June 22

Fog Signals is our weekly wrap-up newsletter. A look back at the most fascinating, resonant articles from the past week. Most loved stories from the past week We covered a number of stories about creativity, beautifully crafted items, including a hand-built luxury car that echoes styles from the Art Deco era. Mark Goudy’s Beautiful Origami-Inspired Porcelain There’s so much to love about Mark…

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Cantastic! Shows the Humble Can Turned into Elaborate Sculpture and Jewelry

Artist Eunseok Han expertly uses soda and beer cans in wildly unexpected ways, creating vibrant works of art. Painstakingly cutting, trimming, bending and fastening, Han creates intricate, rippling designs that feel alive with possibility. Close inspection might reveal a tidbit of a can’s logo or writing, revealing the true nature of the materials in use. We love the color choices and vibrancy…

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Mark Goudy’s Beautiful Origami-Inspired Porcelain

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These Sleek Metal Puzzles Are The Best Kind of Brain Teaser

Working through a 3D puzzle boosts spatial reasoning, patience, memory, and even stress relief. It’s mindfulness with edges and angles. Crafted from solid stainless steel, these modern Tetra puzzles are art objects that just so happen to be great brain teasers as well. Designed by Revision for Craighill, the Tetra has a rounded, futuristic shape and looks quite straightforward, until you try to…

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Gorgeous Images of Earth From Space

These stunning images of Earth taken from space showcase the amazing diversity of texture and color that make up our planet. Taken from a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite, we see the deep reds of the Namib desert to the iridescent glow of the Ganges River. All of the images are available for high quality download on the ESA website, and make for incredible backgrounds, wallpapers, and…

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Rubik's Cube Chair Makes You Work For Your Seat

We might be standing awhile… This cheeky seat design by @Coeonnnnn is a working Rubik’s cube, with stool legs attached. In order to sit on it’s top, the user will have to solve the cube’s many sides, or else have stool legs protruding from all angles, rendering the chair useless. Once solved, the chairs simple form is revealed, and feels like unlocking an important achievement. See more about…

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Thames Glass Made From Collected River Trash

One person’s trash is another’s treasure? That seems to be the case for designer Lulu Harrison, who has recently won the prestigious Ralph Saltzman Prize for her innovative glass artifact project. Using collected waste shells, wood, and bracken found in the River Thames, Harrison worked with glassblowers to turn this waste into beautiful glass objects. The process of blowing and forming the…

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Sleek, Minimal E-Bike Is the World's Lightest

E-Bikes have become incredibly popular for their ability to whisk us farther and easier than traditional bikes alone. They also come in so many shapes and sizes, some of them resembling motorcycles or scooters. But until now, they’ve all suffered the same drawback – they’re chunky and heavy. Now we’re seeing eBikes starting to slim down and become nearly indistinguishable from their manual…

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A Collection of Wild, Retro-Futuristic Cars

We absolutely adore the limitless possibilities and innovative thinking that come with futuristic design. When artists and designers remove their blinders, it’s truly inspiring to witness the incredible ideas that can emerge. From flying cars to strange hovering Cadillacs to monorail trains, this collection comprises designs from the US, Europe and Japan. Mostly from the 1940s and 50s, we see…

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Hyper-Colorful Posters for Rural Chinese Harvest Festival

In Guanzhong, Shaanxi, summer’s harvest party, called Mangba Hui gets an electrifying makeover thanks to Untitled Macao, the Macau-born design prodigy led by Au Chon Hin. The design brief? Make an ancient vibe feel fresh, vibrant, and absolutely attention-worthy. We love the way an old tradition has been updated to feel funky, fresh, and full of personality. We see attendees and organizers of…

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- • Fog Signals - • Weekly Round Up, June 15

Fog Signals is our weekly wrap-up newsletter. A look back at the most fascinating, resonant articles from the past week. Most loved stories from the past week Resurrecting the Scents of Extinct Flowers Using DNA from extinct plants and flowers, scientists are able to recreate the perfume and aromas from lost smells. Fascinating technology from The Future Society. Resurrecting the Scents of…

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Mesmerizing Murmurations by Claire Droppert

Dutch artist and photographer Claire Droppert got the show of a lifetime witnessing thousands of starlings grouping together in tight formation. Called a murmuration, it’s when large flocks fly together in unison, creating abstract yet gorgeous patterns in the sky. Starlings take to the sky together during sunset, and their murmuration is supposedly to provide safety in numbers as they…