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Ski resorts typically use turnstiles or flap gates to admit customers. These incumbent designs can be awkward for snowboarders, mountain bikers (in the summer seasons) and family members in wheelchairs to pass through. Austrian company Skidata, which produces access and ticketing solutions, designed an update to address this.Their design team, led by industrial designer Danijela Tolanov-Vogl, created the sMove Wave. Unlike traditional turnstiles, it uses a soft, flexible (and unspecified) material for the arm, which flattens out of the way to provide entry and avoid snagging.

In the 1950s, Italian motorcycle manufacturer Moto Guzzi produced this radical-looking V8 Grand Prix Racer. The company was experimenting with aerodynamics, and reckoned the fairing would give them an unbeatable advantage.View the full content here

Parking lots, driveways and bicycle paths should be paved. But laying them out presents a problem for planners, which is water management. The pavement needs to be crowned or slanted, and water needs to be directed towards a drainage source, the design of which can become another project altogether. It would be far better if rain could drain naturally, the way it does on grassy soil. Gravel is another good solution, but it has a tendency to migrate over time, and thus requires neverending maintenance.Belgian design and engineering firm Prodotto devised a solution. Their Deer Grid is a series of concrete pavers that are sturdy enough to support heavy vehicles, and are perforated to allow grass to grow in the gaps. Alternatively the gaps can be filled with gravel.

We're excited to welcome Aria Xiying Bao as Jury Captain for the Emerging Technologies category in the 2026 Core77 Design Awards.https://designawards.core77.com/Emerging-Technologies As Co-founder and Head of Creative Tech at iNNXX, a creative technology studio that connects the physical and virtual worlds, Aria has built a practice around this philosophy. The studio's physical product line—XTENDED iDENTiTY—has attracted collaborations with artists including Grimes, Bad Bunny, and IVE, earning coverage in Forbes, Vogue Business, and ELLE. Simultaneously, Aria adv

Public seating pieces for offices, lounges, waiting areas and the like are often bulky. The pieces typically consist of upholstery attached to enclosed wooden frames, with plenty of adhesives bonding one material to another. For this Circulus modular furniture system, Italian industrial designer Mario Ferrarini took a different approach. Rather than wood, Ferrarini opted for a lightweight aluminum frame, the panels of which have been perforated to save on both material and weight. The upholstered part is a separate component tha

The Hart Island Tumulus is a speculative architectural project that imagines a rammed-earth block structure serving as both a burial mound and a memorial for those who died during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The proposal considers an architecture that is exposed and vulnerable to natural processes, allowing erosion, aging, and transformation to become part of its meaning. Rather than resisting time, the memorial incorporates change as a way of sustaining remembrance. Located on Hart Island, it is positioned directly above a mass grave for pandemic victims, the mound acts as a physical signifier on the landscape, acknowledging the individuals laid to rest beneath it. At the same time, it stands as a collective monument, marking the profound human loss caused by the pandemic and embedding that memory within the earth itself.

In Sweden, even the humble whiteboard receives design attention.View the full content here

Sofas often conceal wall outlets. Thus far we've seen two solutions. The first is Häfele's Sleek Socket. The second solution is a bit more involved: Mitten State Woodworks builds powered behind-the-sofa consoles.

For those of us taping up the occasional package, a plastic packaging tape dispenser is fine. But for people in a factory or industrial environment, who are taping boxes all day long, a more robust solution is required. Hence Japanese tool manufacturer Trusco, which targets the manufacturing and construction industries, designed this TEX-266A. First off the thing is made of steel, rather than plastic; it's meant to survive drops on concrete floors.

In New York I ran a photography studio, and witnessed a lot of fashion shoots. The clothes would be delivered from the fashion designer's studio, and it was the stylist's job to make those clothes fit whatever models had been hired for the shoot. Because shoots move quickly, and the garments couldn't be physically modified, stylists frequently used safety pins, binder clips and the like to pinch the fabric (on the side of the model's body that the camera couldn't see).So I was amused to see this Eye Clip, by Issey Miyake. It's basically an XL version of what a stylist might use during a shoot. It's meant to be worn out in the open, and al