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Cork has spent decades being underestimated. Wine stoppers, bulletin boards, yoga mats, the occasional floor tile. Somewhere along the way, a material with genuinely remarkable engineering properties got slotted into the background of everyday objects. That changed when designers started paying attention to cork’s unique properties: it absorbs sound, repels moisture, insulates against heat, compresses…
Pattern has always been one of humanity’s most instinctive forms of expression. Before there was writing, there was weave, the repetition of motifs in cloth, stone, and ceramic that encoded identity, belief, and belonging long before language could do the same. The Japanese asanoha, the Nordic Fair Isle, the geometric armor vocabulary of ancient Chinese…
This July, Yanko Design and KeyShot partnered with Pantone to bring their magical Dualities color palette to life through rendering (and a touch of AI). The Pantone Dualities Challenge kicked off on the 18th of the month, finally coming to a close at the end of August and we’re here to introduce you to the…
Yanko Design is teaming up with Pantone and KeyShot to present the Pantone Dualities Challenge! Marking the announcement of the new Pantone Dualities color palette, with 175 Pastels and Shadows that come together wonderfully to create dreamy contrasts, this competition invites you to render, compose, and explore with the new color options. The brief is…
The World Architecture Festival just dropped its 2025 shortlist, and the results reveal a design world obsessed with solving climate change through better buildings. Over 460 projects from 780+ global entries showcase everything from hotels that produce more energy than they use to concrete made from waste materials. The shortlist arrives ahead of WAF’s first-ever…
The year’s first YD x KeyShot competition comes to a close, with 3 winners securing the bag for their mind-bending photorealistic renders. The brief of the competition (announced in March) was to create renders that fool the eye into thinking it’s a photograph. Humans have slowly begun training their eyes to AI-generated images, trying to…
There’s a term popularly used to describe AI art today, a term called “uncanny valley”, which refers to that small valley between fake and real, where the mind can tell the difference. Sometimes movies overdo their 3D VFX so much that it falls in the uncanny valley, where it’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s…
An indomitable force in the 3D Rendering space, KeyShot has announced “The KeyShot Colorway Rendering Challenge”, inviting designers to participate and win a free year of KeyShot Pro, Rendering Masterclasses from Will Gibbons, and many more prizes. The challenge is simple – explore KeyShot’s vast color library and render a product (any product of your…
“Yanko Design and KeyShot announce the winners of the Material Design Challenge” With hundreds of entries over the 3-week competition time period, the YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge finally came to a close with the winners being announced this week. The three winning entries showcase an incredibly versatile approach, proving exactly how capable KeyShot 11’s Material…
“KeyShot and Yanko Design invite designers to create innovative new materials for the popular rendering software” We’re thrilled to announce the “YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge”, a unique opportunity for designers to explore KeyShot 11’s powerful Material Graph and 3D Paint features to create the materials of their dreams. Winners will not only be awarded free…