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A company with no history called Stonemore is selling these anti-package-theft mailboxes.Boxy and made of powder-coated steel, they're meant to be anchored through the base to a concrete pad. Up top is a letter slot. Below that is a package door, behind which is a hinged floor that drops your package into the compartment below:The package door also has two metal spring clips, where you can place outgoing letters.

Ball pits, invented by designers Charlotte Rude and Hjördis Olsson-Une for Ikea in 1970, went on to become wildly popular. Fast food restaurants, amusement parks, play centers and community recreation facilities have all featured them.To the wary parent, they seem like hotbeds of germs. Anecdotal stories (like these or

In 1968, Charlotte Rude and Hjördis Olsson-Une were two young graduates of Sweden's Konstfack University, where they had studied art and design. The two moved to Älmhult, Sweden, where a glassworks was located; having caught the material exploration bug at design school, the two wanted to experiment with glass.The pair had very little money and shared an apartment. To furnish it, they bought inexpensive leftover particle board from a nearby construction site, and built pieces they designed themselves. Älmhult was also where Ikea had opened their first store, back in 1958, and was where their headquarters were based. Some of Rude and Olsson-Une's neighbors worked for Ikea, and when they saw the desi

Up until now, a slipper and a boot have been opposite pieces of footwear, functionally speaking. Slippers are soft, easy to pull on and made for padding around inside. Boots are stiff, require onerous lacing and are made to provide traction on rugged terrain.This ReEmber Camp Slip On, by California-based footwear brand Teva, takes the best of both. It's soft and features a quilted upper for warmth, a grippy rubber outsole for traction, a cushioned footbed, a collapsible heel if you just want to jam them on, and a single strap if you need a little more fit.

IThis unnamed project is by Aleš Urbancík, an Industrial Design student at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. Urbancík is rethinking the way clothes are typically hung on a hanger, and finds this method, for which he developed a mechanism, more desirable:So how does that work with a closet rod? It doesn't. Urbancík's project is the entire rack, where he's decided he doesn't want loose hangers at all, for aesthetic reaso

I don't consider air travel pleasant, so I'm always surprised when I see airport-inspired furniture; it's the last experience I want to remember. Turkish designer/architect Müge Kahraman, however, sees beauty in baggage carousels, specifically in their serpentine conveyor belts. Thus her line of Baggage Claim Mirrors. The two full-sized mirrors are called

The WE app, a 2025 Honoree in the Core77 Design Awards, represents a thoughtful exploration of how design can mediate between vulnerable users and complex systems. Developed by QIMU Design, with designers Shuting Jiang and Tianyue Wu, the project asks what it means to create tools that do more than solve functional problems—they create trust, dignity, and belonging.The design team began with a fundamental insight: immigrant women navigating healthcare in a new country often encounter not one but multiple layers of friction. Language, cultural expectations, and opaq

Here's a great piece of design, executed in a hurry. Unfortunately the designer never names himself, so we have no idea who he is or how to link back to him.The anonymous designer was visited by a colleague, who had recently injured his hand and was wearing an uncomfortable orthotic. The designer resolved to design and produce a better one, custom-fit to the colleague's hand. Said colleague wouldn't be in town for long, so the job was done in a rush. The SnugFit 3D scanning app, orthotic design software caleld Spentys and Formlabs SLA and SLS printers all played a crucial role.

This ADP Bench (Adults Don't Play) is by Copenhagen-based architecture/design firm Spacon. Designed for public spaces, it provides user-adjustable seating for people of various heights.Alternatively, the seats can also be used as table-height surfaces.

We've covered Matthias Pleissnig's work before, plenty of times--for good reason. The Rhode-Island-based designer creates positively stunning furniture out of steam-bent domestic hardwoods.He breaks his furniture into just three categories: "Small"…