Awesome Design

Typical LED and LCD screens on watches and clocks use seven segments to create Arabic numerals from 0 to 9. Pekero came up with a design concept for a 38-segment display that can show Chinese and Japanese numbers and some letters as well. At the end, they show how it might look on a watch, and you can check out an SVG file here.

This compendium from Phaidon combines and updates the three-volume Phaidon Design Classics into a single 592-page hardcover book. A must-own for appreciators of industrial design, the book showcases the most iconic and influential products and objects from the 17th to the 21st century.

For hundreds of years, pianos have largely remained unchanged. Whipsaw Design Lab shakes things up with its innovative Ravenchord piano. Shaped like a bird’s wing, the piano’s visible strings are arranged around a spiral-shaped frame while its keys sit atop the structure. It uses solenoids to activate dampers hidden at the center of its spiral.

This unique rocking chair from South Korean artist Muddycap has a design that makes it look like it’s in motion all of the time. Its jagged edges create the illusion of movement, much like pond ripples. Like Muddycap’s other wild chair designs, it only exists as a 3D model, but we’d love to see it put into production.

This innovative small house created by Boxabl unpacks and assembles in as little as an hour. In addition to the tiny home shown in this video, the company is developing temporary cabins for festivals, townhouses, and even a modular two-story house with a roof deck. The 361 square foot Boxable Casita can be reserved for pre-order now.

Love colors and design? Hues and Cues is a great party game that challenges you to pinpoint a specific color based on one- or two-word clues from other players. The closer you get to guessing the exact color from the 480-hue grid, the more points you earn. It’s a fun, family-friendly game for 3 to 10 players.

Despite advancements in 3D visualization tech, architects sometimes still need to show physical models of buildings. MonsterKook is an expert at making this type of miniature, and his YouTube channel is filled with these tiny houses, including this impressive creation featuring structural walls he made by filling foamboard forms with cement.

This stainless steel stencil is ideal for sketching out user interface and user experience concepts. It features common icons for things like menus, arrows, buttons, and sliders, as well as social media. Its top edge includes a pixel ruler and column guides as well.

This unique bridge allows pedestrians to cross a river or canal, and lets ships pass underneath by rolling over to increase its clearance. It uses a hand-cranked cable system to flip the bridge along a rippled track. The concept was turned into a real bridge by Thomas Randall-Page.

New Zealand’s Wētā Workshop takes us behind the scenes to look at the incredible costume work that went into Avatar: The Way of Water. The outfits took an average of 200 hours each to create, and artists applied over a million beads. Each real-world costume was then digitized for use on CGI character models.

Friendly Rabbit’s CUBED offers a modern spin on the classic game of dominoes, replacing rectangles with hexagons, and dots with colorful facets in varying heights. Players match pieces based on color and height with the goal of placing them all. The set comes with 88 pieces, with an optional 16-piece expansion set.

There are hundreds of unique ships and vehicles in the Star Wars universe, yet the vast majority seem cohesive and make sense as a collection. Spaceship fanatic EC Henry offers his thoughts on the secret sauce that holds Star Wars design together and offers guidelines you can follow for designing your own ships.

This unique bridge connects two districts in The Netherlands. Designed by West 8 and fabricated by HCG, the helical truss structure was fabricated from 400 steel tubes which twist a full 90 degrees from one end of the bridge to the other. It was originally painted red, but its current, more natural state also looks very cool.

Not to be confused with the Phi Ruler, this drawing tool offers another method for drawing with the Golden Ratio, a mathematical ratio known for its ability to produce images and objects with harmony, balance, and structure. The Phi Ruler 2.0 comes in three sizes and in clear or a Bauhaus-inspired color scheme.

Chef Ferran Adrià’s brain-trust the elBullifoundation compiled this mouth-watering 416-page encyclopedia of images, menus, reference text, and the history of breakfast. Along the way, it compares the importance of the first meal of the day and how it differs around the globe.

This unique desktop plaything is made from a semi-spherical chunk of natural volcanic rock, mated with a machined aluminum alloy base. The result is a rolling conversation piece that stimulates your senses of sight, touch, sound, and even smell. Its porous surface can be used as a diffuser for essential oils.