In Collaboration with Indigenous Artisans Around the World, PET Lamp Emphasizes Sustainability

Every year, a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, commonly referred to as PET, is used to produce around 600 billion bottles and other packaging. Think juice containers, detergent jugs, soft jars, and shampoo bottles, plus myriad other items like carpeting, synthetic fabrics, and industrial applications. Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills or even floating in the ocean.

Spanish design firm PET Lamp set out give another purpose to these otherwise short-lived materials. Partnering with artisans in communities from Chile to Ethiopia to Australia, the company celebrates both Indigeneity and sustainability, drawing upon time-honored global craft traditions while...

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl stage illustrates "surreal journey" through Puerto Rico

The celebratory, symbolic set design for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show allowed the artist to "make his comments in a way that felt elegant," according to its creative director Harriet Cuddeford.

Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, headlined the show during the 60th Super Bowl football game, which took place at Levi's Stadium in California on 8 February 2026.

The show was a celebration of Latin American culture and was full of symbolism, fitting for the first artist to perform this event predominantly in Spanish.

To create the immersive setting through which the performance unfolded,...

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Studio 84 exhibits furniture onstage at Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México

Mexican design gallery Studio 84 and Unno Gallery have presented Inner Stage, a collection of works by designers including Sabine Marcelis and glassworks studio 6AM, at a local ballet theatre for Mexico City art week 2026.

For the Inner Stage presentation, rugs, lighting elements, screens, and other furniture pieces were on display in the lobby and on the stage of Escuela del Ballet Folklórico de México (Escuela del Ballet), a Brutalist building designed by architect Agustín Hernández Navarro.

The show was further activated by female folkloric dancers accompanied...

Victoria Dugger Reinterprets the American Flag in Glitter and Fringe

When Victoria Dugger encountered Jasper Johns’ “Flag” during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, she found herself contemplating similar ideas. The encaustic painting is one of Johns’ most recognizable works and revels in ambiguity: although it bears stars and stripes, it’s not an exact representation of Old Glory, nor is it solely a gestural, abstract work. Instead, “Flag” prompts questions about motif, material, and meaning that defy any singular narrative.

For Dugger, Johns’ multivalent approach felt particularly apt 70 years later. On the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, she began a body of work that...

Kelly Wearstler wants diners to "feel completely present" at low-lit fusion restaurant

"Intimacy was non-negotiable" for Kelly Wearstler when interior designing Kappo Kappo, a charred-wood-clad French and Japanese restaurant at the Austin Proper Hotel in Texas.

Kappo Kappo is a single-room, 25-cover restaurant at the Austin Proper Hotel, which features interiors by Los Angeles-based Wearstler throughout.

The French-Japanese fusion restaurant is centred around "kappo" dining, the Japanese term for "to cut and cook", where each course is prepared in front of the diner and served directly to them by the chef.

"Understanding kappo dining – really understanding it – was essential before I touched a...

A Painterly Short Film Follows Alfred Nakache from Swimming Star to Holocaust Survivor

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As a child, Artem “Alfred” Nakache (1915-1983) was afraid of water. The youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family that emigrated from Iraq to Constantine, Algeria, Alfred eventually overcame his terror of the depths and actually excelled at swimming. He became so skilled that by the mid-1930s, he had won both local and French national competitions—Algeria was under the control of France at the time—and moved to Paris to pursue his competitive career. He would, however, be impacted by an unthinkable tragedy, indelibly linked to what he would eventually accomplish.

A short film by director and artist Florence Miailhe titled...

Unreal Characters V2

This series is highly experimental and unique. I pushed my imagination to build the characters and sketched them with bold exaggeration. It's been a lot of fun creating them, and I truly enjoy exploring this style. I re-imagined the body using abstraction to exaggerate each character's features. These characters are more compositional in nature, built from a mix of abstract shapes and forms.

Form Portfolios acquires lifestyle brand Dansk

Design company Form Portfolios has acquired Dansk, the homewares brand co-founded by Danish modernist Jens Quistgaard, and plans to "carry forward everything Dansk represents".

Dansk, which is often credited with introducing Scandinavian style to the US in the 1950s, is known for products such as its Kobenstyle cookware and teak salad bowls.

It has now been acquired by US-based design company Form Portfolios, which has been working with Quistgaard's family since 2023 on the management of the late designer's estate.

The company now has the rights to Quistgaard's intellectual property and said it plans to continue to "protect...

A Clever, Low-Tech, No-Robots Design for a Passive Tennis Partner

A clever inventor named Ulpan Dimas invented this CourtSense Tennis Rebounder.

Unlike the ball-volleying robots now on the market, Dimas' low-tech invention requires no electricity and no tennis court:

Dimas sells the CourtSense for $295 on eBay (plus shipping, and be aware that Dimas is in Indonesia).