ecal x Google Just Imagined 10 Phones Beyond the Slab

ecal x Google Just Imagined 10 Phones Beyond the Slab

At ECAL’s collaboration with Google’s Industrial Design team, the smartphone is no longer treated as a fixed icon of consumer tech. In A Message from Tomorrow, it becomes something far more fluid, a design question that deserves to be reopened. The brief invited ECAL’s Master Product Design students to develop mobile-focused concepts inspired by daily…

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Moooi’s 25th Anniversary Monster Chairs Have Hand-Embroidered Creatures on Every Backrest

Moooi’s 25th Anniversary Monster Chairs Have Hand-Embroidered Creatures on Every Backrest

When Marcel Wanders designed the Monster Chair in 2014, the “monster” part was mostly conceptual. The piece had presence, sure, with its quilted leather upholstery and angular obsidian-like legs, but the actual aesthetic leaned more toward restrained decadence than outright chaos. It was a chair that suggested mischief without committing to it fully. That restraint…

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Skoda’s Inflatable Car Installation at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Bouncy Castle Grew Wheels

Skoda’s Inflatable Car Installation at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Bouncy Castle Grew Wheels

Cars belong to the world of hard surfaces, precision tolerances, and engineering constraints measured in fractions of millimeters. Ulises Studio works in the opposite direction. The Barcelona-based spatial design practice has spent years creating immersive environments that transform architecture into something tactile and experiential, turning rigid spaces into soft, inviting landscapes. Their installations have activated…

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If Fidget Spinners Were Furniture: This Marble Table Has a Brass Sphere You Push Around Endlessly

If Fidget Spinners Were Furniture: This Marble Table Has a Brass Sphere You Push Around Endlessly

Furniture should probably stay still. That’s the basic contract between you and the table: it holds your dinner plates, you don’t worry about physics. Alessio Scalabrini decided that contract was negotiable. The Animo table, produced by Italian marble workshop Serafini, features a brass sphere that rotates around a central lamp fixture, tracing concentric ripples carved…

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