Florian Cornut crafted modular packaging design for Café Gardo, uniting bold typography with Entre-Deux-Mers terroir and agroforestry coffee. Café Gardo takes its name from the confluence of the Garon...

A full desktop PC is hiding inside this picture frame Dieter Rams famously said good design is honest. With all due respect to Dieter, Matt from DIY Perks has built something that lies through its…

Redmi Note 17 5G Review: Built Around a Battery, Not a Benchmark Phone prices went up this year, and not because phones got dramatically better. Memory and storage cost more, so every brand had to decide what…

Polaroid Mod point-and-shoot camera brings unpredictability back into play with four creatives modes Polaroid has created the Mod point-and-shoot camera to replicate some of the most popular visual effects onto the analog film shooting capability. This is far…

Your Old Barbie Dolls Actually Become Speakers and Power Banks When I was young, a lot of my stuff was pink. Not just any pink. It had to be Barbie pink. I eventually grew into…

8 Digital Nomad Gear Picks That Fit in One Carry-On The carry-on is the most honest test a piece of gear can face. Every extra centimeter costs something real. A charger left behind, a book…

PP Kyoto by Pangram Pangram introduces a bold typeface design bridging Japanese writing systems with architectural slab serif geometry. Developed by Caio Kondo, Francesca Bolognini, and Mat Desjardins...

Motionographer shares inspiring work and important news for the Motion Design, animation and visual effects communities.

Far from the cold, hard edges and preset music, Anastasia Kristensen is exploring anthropomorphic sound -- and digging up "weird, small nests" of music. It's just the kind of hopeful conversation we need right now. Enter this year's Bestarium Sombre -- and, if you're lucky, catch Anastasia live. She talks to CDM about the work and that vision. The post Magpies and hope: a journey into Anastasia Kristensen’s Bestiarium appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

A Round Clock That Shows the Forecast So You Stop Checking Your Phone Checking the time before leaving home often requires checking your phone, which carries the risk of being distracted by everything else on it. The Round…

New Balance Quietly Fixed What Makes Tech Sneakers Unwearable Technical sneakers often make you choose between visible comfort and a sense of restraint. The cushioning is on display, the sole is sculpted, and suddenly…

Logitech built the all-day work + play headset that doesn’t scream “IT department” I don’t want to be the one to call you out on a fine Wednesday morning, but your tech bag is a mess. You’ve got…

Murri designs a dynamic brand identity for RCD Espanyol de Barcelona, drawing inspiration from modernist Catalan poster design. Founded in 1900 as one of the original clubs of Spanish football, RCD Es...

Estúdio Reven developed the brand identity for Setenet, translating mission-critical enterprise internet infrastructure into a disciplined graphic language. Most telecom companies lean on tired indust...

Poclink Motion Ultra is a modern walkie-talkie with LTE, GPS, SOS, and Zero Monthly Fees The walkie-talkie has had the same design problem since WWII: great up close, a plastic brick the moment you’re out of range. Bluetooth mesh updated…

Kelvin Zero by Cuberto rethinks dark-mode web design for passwordless authentication, pairing 3D ice shaders with crisp telemetry. Cuberto approached the digital presence for cybersecurity platform Ke...

The Perfect ‘Frequent Flyer’ Hoodie cradles your arms like a Straightjacket for comfortable snoozing Airplane seats are designed for exactly one thing: fitting as many humans as possible into a metal tube. Comfort comes a distant second, and sleep…

Honor Magic9 crams dual 200MP cameras into a 6.37-inch phone Honor apparently looked at a movie camera from 1937 and thought, yeah, let’s build for that. The Magic9’s camera module borrows its arrangement from ARRI’s…

Two Times Elliott delivers an energetic branding design system for Paist, pairing clinical oral care precision with spirited daily ritual. The oral care category has long been bogged down by clinical ...

Thin Acrylic Folds Like Origami to Give This Chair Its Inflated, Sculptural Form   A folding chair is usually designed around one simple promise: disappear when it is not needed. This concept takes that familiar piece of furniture…

DIYer creates handheld gaming PC from a salvaged Galaxy A90 phone Handheld gaming machines are compact, easy to use, and give you the freedom to bring AAA titles to your busy lifestyle. They are more of…

Bugatti Residences Miami Is the Most Ambitious Branded Tower to Ever Hit the Miami River Bugatti has never done anything quietly — and its first American residential project is no exception. On the Miami River, Brandon Haw Architecture is designing…

WIKO’s $1,220 Hi MateBook 14 puts a gorgeous 3:2 OLED on a very practical laptop WIKO started in Marseille, spent a decade making budget Androids, got acquired by a Chinese telecom group in 2021, found its way into Huawei’s retail…

The 8kg Spider Chair That Refuses to Wobble on Any Floor I have spent enough time in enough apartments with enough uneven floors to know that four legs are a promise most chairs cannot keep. Old…

Explore The Vienna Template by Jung von Matt DONAU. A free Figma UI design system celebrating Viennese Modernism for Vienna Design Week. To open the 20th Vienna Design Week, the Vienna Tourist Board p...

Tropical Smoothie Cafe, also known as Tropical Smoothie, is a restaurant franchise in the United States. It operates more than 1,700 locations nationwide, and was acquired by Blackstone in 2024. A new logo and visual identity was doing the rounds this month, and it’s worth sharing for the monogram alone. Could a T look more […]

SAVVY STUDIO balanced curatorial mystery and rational typographic structure in editorial design for arts laboratory Atelier Cervantes. Atelier Cervantes operates as a curatorial and arts consulting la...

A disappointing movie isn’t necessarily a bad movie, but the two usually have the same commute. This year has had some huge hits, great surprises, maybe even a few future classics, and its share of duds. To be fair, not every bad movie is a disappointment. Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man got terrible reviews, and […]

Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds are an absolute steal for $99 Wired earbuds are making a strong comeback for good reason. You don’t have to worry about charging the case, freak out about the buds dying…

Meta Just Turned Its AI Into a Tamagotchi and It’s Pretty Cute AI has plenty of serious questions to answer, from copyright and environmental costs to privacy. There’s also a more everyday hurdle: for many people, AI…

Forty years in, Montreal's Tonic DNA launches a refreshed identity, a new original holiday special, and a bet that AI can give hand-drawn animation a longer life. A conversation with partner and executive producer Stefanie Bitton.

Klara Is the Coffee Table That Lets You Fake a Tidy Room Coffee tables are places where people as well as things meet, and they can get messy really fast. Books, remote controls, accessories, knick-knacks, you name…

The 8 Japanese-Designed Everyday Objects Worth Building a Habit Around Japan has a long tradition of treating ordinary objects as worthy of serious attention. Not just functional, but considered – the angle of a pour…

AeroPress Built a Coffee Maker Nobody Wants to Hide As someone who loves exploring different ways to make coffee, I have a confession: I still haven’t tried an AeroPress. I’ve been curious about it…

This Roman Column Vase Treats a Single Stem Like the Main Event Flower vases are meant to put the focus on floral arrangements and disappear into the background. But while that may work for large bundles like…

HiBy’s $99 W4 Is the Headphone Adapter That Refuses to Look Like One You’d think wired headphones and earplugs would have gone the way of the dodo, along with the 3.5mm jack in smartphones. Of course, everyone still…

It's time to resurrect 1Uesday, because the single-height 1U Eurorack format is heating up again. We've got some cheap and cheery Koma Elektronik tools -- including some lovely leftfield stuff -- plus a new range from Doepfer. If you've got the case for it, you can put it to good use. The post 1Uesday: Koma Elektronik (sale), Doepfer goodies for your 1U rack appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Nothing’s $399 Headphones Take Aim at Sony, Bose, and Apple at Once Consumer electronics have usually been opaque, literally and figuratively, but there was a time when manufacturers actually glorified transparent designs. Nothing tried to bring back…

No plugs, no batteries, no mess: this futuristic kitchen pad wirelessly powers your appliances Remember when wireless phone chargers felt like magic? Set your phone down, it charges, no fumbling with a cable in the dark. Somebody at Kitchenery…

Morgin Madison has a history of making his best music when his life is at a crossroads. His 2021 debut album, Living the Phantasm, came together in just a few… The post Morgin Madison Announces ‘Another Eden,’ A New Album About Hope, Change, And His Personal Journey appeared first on Dancing Astronaut.

Standard TVs Filter Their Color, the Hisense UR8 Creates Its Own For decades, every television has made color the same way, filtering a single blue light down into red, green, and blue until something resembles a…

This Tabletop Fireplace Does What Solo Stove Doesn’t: Burn Indoors Fall is when the appeal of an open flame reasserts itself. The air turns crisp, and everyone wants that fireplace glow back in their evenings.…

Explore the Create for Crisis brand identity by Dalziel & Pow. Handcrafted linocut typography and retail assets for Secondhand September. One of our favorite London-based design studios Dalziel &a...

OlssønBarbieri crafted tactile packaging design for Himkok RTD, pairing matte aluminium cans with Nordic apothecary distillation cues. Himkok ranks among the top cocktail bars in Oslo. When city bars ...

This Zippo case now hides a full DIY micro-toolkit inside The Zippo lighter has been in pockets since 1932, surviving wars, road trips, and at least a few questionable life decisions. The iconic snap of…

Genius ‘Tilted’ Apple Watch Band Makes The Entire Experience 10x More Ergonomic Have you noticed tilting always makes things ‘ergonomic’? A laptop stand tilts the keyboard towards you – ergonomic. A vertical mouse tilts your hands into…

One Table, 3 Games, Nobody Needs a Game Room Most people who want a pool table and a dining table end up choosing neither. The math never works. A regulation pool table eats up…

Sociotype Foundry unveils Gestura, a modern serif superfamily exploring typography design through old-style roots and calligraphic warmth. Sociotype Foundry approaches typography design with a deliber...

YouTuber builds 8-wheel electric wooden camper that spins 360-degrees and rides like a tank Have you been wanting to live out of an all-wooden camper? Driving solo to the pastures you visited with your father as a child but…

Explore Knights & Fighters typography by Noodle Wang, blending classical Roman proportions with sharp high-contrast serifs and Gothic details. Created under his artist imprint Noodlemaker, type de...