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Hans J. Wegner designed this GE-258 Daybed in the 1950s.

Leather, whether synthetic or real, isn't a material we typically associate with the bathroom. But in the 1970s, it was a thing in Germany to clad bathroom scales with it. These olive and yellow models are by Krups:

This Touring Bicycle was the thesis project of Sebastian Andraschko, an Institute of Industrial Design student at Austria's FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz. The idea was to use metal 3D printing to create strong but lightweight connectors between straight runs of tubing. Gaya is a collapsible touring bicycle constructed from metal 3D-printed parts. It combines the geometry of modern

This clock concept is by Argentina-based industrial designer Agustin Papadopulos. Spiritually, it recalls Braun's iconic AB 20--except it's made out of steel, and laser-cut from a single sheet:

With his Oops lamp, L.A.-based industrial designer Alberto Essesi channels that moment in the studio when you realize you've made a terrible mistake:This has been an idea I've had for a few years and always laugh when I think about it. Finally, I've gotten to design it, a simple moment that inverts the expected. A moment we've all experienced after building something and a small detail was missed. Inspired by a hanging light bulb.

This Chopsticks Maker is by Shanghai-based industrial designer Mario Tsai. The idea is that if you're camping, you can make your own cutlery out of twigs, and them behind to biodegrade. By reinterpreting and redesigning the pencil sharpener as a prot

While Chinese robotics companies like Unitree are all in on humanoid robots, South Korean company Neubility is opting for a more utilitarian, rolling form. They tapped industrial design firm BKID to design Billi, a sort of pickup truck version of a service robot: "With wheel-based mobility, a rotating robotic arm, and a modular cargo bay, Billi can pick up, load, and hand over items. Billi aims to minimize human intervention points at service sites through tasks such as operating elevator and door buttons, transporting and loading goods, and last-mile delivery, while pursuing

"The act of reaching for a door handle, often our first tactile encounter with a building, becomes a sensory moment in its own right," writes manufacturer FSB. They should know; the German firm has been producing door hardware for over a century.For their new 1292 line of door handles, the company collaborated with Foster + Partners Industrial Design.The Foster + Partners Industrial Design team studied both historical and contemporary everyday objects to better understand the significance of

We all know about hostile architecture/defensive urban design, which is meant to discourage citizens from engaging in a particular activity. Typically we think of horizontal surfaces festooned with protuberances that make them difficult for the homeless to sleep on.Then there's architecture to discourage what we roundly think of as bad behavior, like public urination. In Japan, a historical solution was

MVE‑Collection is a Paris-based design studio that creates furniture and objects from reclaimed materials and construction‑site waste. They created these Brique furniture pieces: They're made of reclaimed bricks that are assembled and joined, not by mortar, but by an unspecified "molten metal." The surfaces are then s