Active Theory's Notturno Experience launches Santioni Spirits as a comic book-inspired WebGL journey through an illustrated brand universe. A hooded saint crosses a sun-bleached wasteland and steps th...

Two Times Elliott created a bold branding design for Artah, pairing clinical credibility with sharp typography and retail packaging. Nutritionist Rhian Stephenson founded Artah in 2021 to bring clinic...

Body horror reflects our most intimate, basic fears. Horror has always reflected broader anxieties, tensions, and disquiet, often wrapping those serious feelings in a protective layer of pulpy, low-brow, over-the-top blood and guts so audiences could digest their scares at a safe distance. Body horror cuts through by visualizing the most personal degradation. Body horror […]

Waterdrop Filter’s Prime Big Deal Days Gets Your Water Ready Before Guests Do This Fall Fall has a way of turning the kitchen into the busiest room in the house, whether it’s earlier coffee brews, soups lingering on the stove,...

Nike Quietly Dropped the Glowiest Dunk Low Yet for Halloween 2026 Nike’s Halloween 2026 sneaker lineup already includes a blood-red Jordan 5 and a screaming Air Force 1. The newest addition is quieter during the day...

The granular engine in Baby Audio's HyperWarp can bend time along graphical paths you create with curved and stepped drawing tools. The result: glitches, timbres, and grooves, rhythmic chops, sweeping pitch shifts, rich coloration, and stasis-leak madness when you want it. I've got a hands-on, plus a big CDM-exclusive bank of free patches. The post Time bending, granular-powered HyperWarp: hands on, free pack appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Bent Wood Is Stronger Than Straight Wood – These 5 Designs Prove It Bent wood is one of the most fascinating materials in design history, where engineering meets artistry. By using steam, heat, or pressure, straight wood is...

Lundgren+Lindqvist reimagines editorial design for Svensk Bokkonst, compiling genuine pages from winning books into a prong-bound catalogue. Most book catalogues rely on flat studio photos. Digital ph...

Mariane Farias crafts a modular brand identity for Mobilli, turning residential relocation into a fluid architectural journey. Mobilli challenges the common perception that moving homes means a disrup...

Main Studio developed the packaging design for Tuned, pairing matte black pouches with precise ingredient telemetry for restful sleep. The contemporary wellness market frequently oscillates between st...

The 7 Tiny Home Upgrades of October 2026 That Don’t Feel Like a Compromise Living smaller used to mean settling. A kitchen counter crowded with single-purpose appliances, a TV that washed out the moment daylight hit the window, lighting...

Nobody Redesigned the Allen Key for 115 Years. Here’s the Fix. Some of the most personal furniture purchases come with the least personal tool. You bring home a crib, spread the pieces across the floor, and...

700 Interlocking Pieces, No Glue: The Pavilion That Quietly Disappears Temporary architecture has a habit of arriving with a big idea and leaving behind a pile of materials. A pavilion can look thoughtful for a...

It's time to dig into the archives. I'd seen this before, but it hits differently now. Herbie Hancock jams out in the studio with Quincy Jones in a 1984 film. It's notable for what Herbie says with his music, with his approach to the machines, and with how he thinks about humans. The post Watch what Herbie Hancock had to say about technology in 1984 appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Vosteed’s $200 titanium folder is slim enough to forget, sharp enough to remember The porcupine is one of nature’s better-engineered designs. It’s compact, self-sufficient, and its entire defense system lives in its skin rather than in added bulk....

Wuben’s Prime Day Fall 2026 Sale Has a Different Light for Every Kind of Carry Most flashlights spend their lives in drawers, which is unfortunate because darkness rarely waits for you to find one. Wuben’s Prime Day Fall 2026 Sale...

OlssønBarbieri crafted tactile packaging design for Stavanger Ysteri, pairing debossed circular labels with mythological linework. Stavanger Ysteri makes raw milk cheese in the heart of Stavanger. The...

House of Cards Quietly Turns an Old Foundation Into a Feature The most interesting part of House of Cards may be the part you cannot see. Vantieghem Talebi designed this family home in Koksijde, Belgium, on...

This $50,000 BRABUS electric motorcycle gives urban riders a rare Fragment design experience BRABUS has given its Urban E electric motorcycle a unique personality with the new Urban E Fragment Edition, created with Japanese designer Hiroshi Fujiwara’s Fragment...

Wing’s Walmart drones are coming to Denver and Seattle — and they won’t drop your parcels in the pool Lindsey Austen of Richmond, Texas, ordered cat food, light bulbs, and shoe insoles, then watched a drone hover over her backyard, open its hatch, and...

LA’s 60-Foot Light Sculpture Actually Makes Music Visible An orchestra can fill a room with sound, yet the experience of that sound is mostly invisible. For someone curious about live classical music, a...

Vollebak Built a $50,000 “Rock Jacket” Out of 54,000 Actual Wearable Slate Tiles Rock has been around for billions of years. Humans have been around for a few million. In that time we figured out how to wear...

Design Week Mexico 2026 opens today in Mexico City, and its new graphic identity leads with a giant grotesque DWM26 set in off-white on black. The whole campaign hangs on that one move: the wordmark I...

Juri Zaech designs Fraktion Mono, an expressive semi-technical typography system pairing monospace discipline with grotesque curves. Monospaced typefaces often feel stiff. Strict grid boxes lock each ...

Explore the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, where MAD Architects crafts an aerodynamic landmark in civic museum architecture. Rising above Exposition Park in South Los Angeles, the Lucas...

5 Glass Homes Where the View Is the Room Transparent living has evolved from a futuristic idea into a defining feature of contemporary architecture. Glass homes have stepped beyond luxury statements and now represent...

PlayStation 5 compatible Nacon Revolution 5 Unlimited Gaming Controller Shows Off A Built-in Screen A new breed of gaming controllers with built-in screens is emerging, including the ROG Raikiri II Pro. Nacon, however, has taken the idea a step...

These Glass Vases Look Better Empty, and Nobody Questions It A vase usually gets its moment when the flowers arrive. Once the bouquet is gone, even an expensive one can become background scenery. That is...

Every K-Cup You’ve Brewed Is Still in a Landfill, and Keurig Has a Fix Single-serve coffee machines solved one morning problem and created another: a pile of plastic pods beside the sink. Keurig’s Alta tries to keep the convenience...

Ragged Edge crafted a tactile brand identity for Papier, centering on the blank page with expressive serifs and bespoke stationery. Papier began as an online stationery brand. It soon grew into a life...

5 Gadgets Gen Z Actually Wants to Own Right Now Something shifted. The generation that grew up with every song, show, and photo living inside a glass rectangle is now buying CD players, handheld consoles,...

Bremont Watches approached Cub Studio to launch its watch collaboration with Felix the Cat. A core component of the project was to keep Felix’s jovial character alive and create a story around a heist, while celebrating Bremont’s aviation history. Cub Studio created a full suite of assets for the launch, including teaser animations, high-resolution stills... Read more »

The Selfie Camera on Your Phone Has Always Been in the Wrong Place Most budget phones have one screen you stare at and a back you think about. The Honor X5d s makes that back worth a second...

Nike Actually Made Sneakers That Look Like Grandma’s Couch I lived in an era and a culture where our couches’ designs were pretty maximalist and contained a gazillion details. So when I see similar...

Flat-Pack Furniture That Actually Survives Your Next Move Flat-pack furniture is easy to appreciate on the day it arrives. It fits through the door, and you can usually put it together without much...

Mother Design turned Serial Box into Realm, and the new Realm brand identity pairs a mascot-eyed wordmark with glowing portals and deep purple. The first thing you meet is the wordmark, and it stares ...

MERACH’s new W60 Plus walking pad boasts 12 incline levels, RGB lights, and a built-in Bluetooth speaker The under-desk treadmill had its moment, arriving as the perfect sidekick for our sudden work-from-home lives (can you believe it’s been six whole years?). It...

This Expandable LEGO Frame System Finally Solves the Collector Storage Nightmare Somewhere in a closet, a perfectly good LEGO minifigure is staring through a plastic bag at the back of a cardboard box. It has a...

5 Best EDC-Style Gadgets Designed to Get You Through Hurricane Season Hurricane season has a way of exposing which of your belongings are actually useful and which ones just take up drawer space. When the power...

After 15 Years, Patek Philippe Returns With a Hand-Wound Chronograph That Stores Energy Like a Bow Perpetual calendar chronographs are Patek Philippe’s version of a solar eclipse. They do not happen often, and when they do, everyone stops what they’re doing...

Madrona Labs' patchable West Coast synth is one of the most playable, exploration-friendly, unique instruments around -- a piece of software to last. And it comes with a reverb companion, now on Linux, too as a free demo you can beta-test. The big news: Aalto 2 is coming this fall for macOS, Windows -- and Linux, too. The post West Coast, with penguins: Aaltoverb on Linux; Aalto 2 coming soon appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Hilariously Practical USB-C Cable Looks Exactly Like a Construction-Site Extension Cord There are exactly zero USB-C cables that anyone has ever called beautiful. They come in black, white, or occasionally braided grey, and they all look...

Marçal Prats rebuilt the Mix Interiors brand identity on a square grid, then expanded the three-letter MIX logotype into a full display typeface. The MIX mark reads as flat planes that refuse to stay ...

This 20-Foot Tiny Home on Wheels Proves Better Design Beats More Square Footage Not every home needs to shout to be heard. Highlands Tiny Homes, based in New South Wales, has built that idea into every corner of...

Nespresso x Swarovski: A $299 Coffee Machine Nobody Ignores Coffee machines have an awkward relationship with the kitchen counter. We need them within reach every morning, but once the coffee is made, many look...

A 1908 New York building’s discarded fragments got turned into furniture instead of being demolished A renovation across the street from Rafael Prieto’s studio offered an unusually good view of his next project. As decorative pieces came off the facade...

Our curated roundup of the best of the week highlights architectural monograms, editorial serif fonts, and tactile apothecary packaging from ISO week 2026-W40. This week’s editorial throughline explor...

4 Marvel Kettlebells for Collectors Who Actually Work Out If you were ever cast in a Marvel movie that would require you to be in an action scene, probably one of the first things...

Laifen’s Fall Sale Is for the Bathroom Tools You’ve Always Ignored It’s a little strange when you think about it. People will spend weeks comparing headphones or picking the right coffee maker, yet the hair dryer,...

Web design inspiration from A24, Butter and White Desert, with three homepage screenshots and a look at their type, imagery and layouts. A24: Web design inspiration from film A24 makes films and telev...