Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
Objets Trouvés: Harry Nuriev sparks creative exchange, turning unwanted belongings into art
At the stunning Petits-Augustins chapel in Paris, artist and designer Harry Nuriev’s Objets Trouvés transforms forgotten or unneeded objects into a participatory living cycle of art, exchange, and renewal.
The ‘Paraphernalia: Desire’ exhibition in New York showcases gentle acts of design
From a hand mirror with the ergonomics of a river stone to a real-time depiction of our solar system. At the ‘Paraphernalia: Desire’ showcase, even the smallest objects can hold our biggest emotions.
‘small MUJI’ exhibition: Tatsuya Tanaka transforms MUJI products into tiny worlds
Socket boards become skyscrapers, biscuits become furniture, and Times Square is made of rubber stamps. The ‘small MUJI’ exhibition is about serendipitous ingenuity.
Humble and adventurous designer bookends from Scotland
Dundee Design Festival reveals eclectic bookends inspired by the world’s first female foreign correspondents.
Eighteen international designers rethink the humble walking stick
Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda, Pierre Charpin and other designers took Keiji Takeuchi’s challenge to create their own future walking stick.
Ten shoe accessories with a design twist
Archipanic’s design contributor Antonella Galimberti has selected ten exquisite shoe accessories proving that creativity and fun thrive even in unexpected humble objects.
The Humble Series: 10+1 unconventional pegs pimped with whimsical design
Even the most functional and humblest of objects can be empowered with design. Archipanic’s design contributor Antonella Galimberti had fun selecting unconventional pegs with an artsy, poetic, and quirky attitude.
Virgil Abloh, Jayme Hayon and more rethink the ladder at Galerie kreo’s ‘Step by Step’ design exhibition
Galerie kreo tasked international designers to reinvent the humble and functional ladder, probably one of the least-cared-about objects of contemporary design.
‘R for Repair’ at the V&A in London explores the sentimental values of broken objects
The R for Repair exhibition shines a timely spotlight on consumerism by showing how cherished but broken objects can be given both new meaning and a fresh lease of life with a bit of ingenuity.
10 alternative design straws to raise your glass with a sustainable attitude
Summertime, cocktail time. Our indefatigable contributor Antonella Galimberti has selected ten sustainable design straws made from blades of grass, pasta and borosilicate glass. Enjoy!
FOUNTAIN OF HYGENE: 8 out-of-the-box designs re-thinking hand washing rituals
FOUNTAIN OF HYGENE design competition: forget hand sanitizing pumps, discover disinfecting doorbells, air cleansing bubbles machines and spongy door handles dispensing hand-washing liquid.
At the Furnishing Utopia exhibition in NY contemporary designers reinterpret Shakers’ furniture
A humble cabinet for contemporary creatives, a framed minimalist clock and multifunctional measuring tools. Ladies & Gentlemen reinterprets Shakers’ humble furniture for Furnishing Utopia design collective in NYC.
Design students re-imagine the pencil sharpener
Humble objects require simple gestures. Italian university students were challenged to think out of the box to design new rituals and actions for the pencil sharpener.