Industrial Design Student Work: A Clothes Rack With Fixed, Collapsible Hangers

IThis unnamed project is by Aleš Urbancík, an Industrial Design student at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. Urbancík is rethinking the way clothes are typically hung on a hanger, and finds this method, for which he developed a mechanism, more desirable:

So how does that work with a closet rod? It doesn't. Urbancík's project is the entire rack, where he's decided he doesn't want loose hangers at all, for aesthetic reasons:

Multifunctional space designed for families among projects from Istituto Europeo di Design

Dezeen School Shows: a multifunctional space designed to fit the varying needs of families is among the projects from Istituto Europeo di Design.

Also featured is an alpine cultural observatory and modular living units designed for integration with natural environments.

Institution: Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)
Course: BA in Interior Design, IED Torino and IED Barcelona
Tutors: Ignasi Bonjoch (IED Barcelona), Adelaide Testa (IED Torino), Federica Bosoni (IED Milano), Marco Provinciali (IED Roma), Manuel Monteserin (IED Madrid), Javier Deferrari (IED Firenze) and Maurizio Bosa (IED Cagliari)

School statement:

"From human-centred design to an ecosystem-based approach, where people, nature and technology coexist and...

Unusual Objects: Mirrors Inspired by Baggage Claim Conveyor Belts

I don't consider air travel pleasant, so I'm always surprised when I see airport-inspired furniture; it's the last experience I want to remember. Turkish designer/architect Müge Kahraman, however, sees beauty in baggage carousels, specifically in their serpentine conveyor belts. Thus her line of Baggage Claim Mirrors.

The two full-sized mirrors are called Baggage Claim O and Baggage Claim I, for obvious reasons. The tabletop unit is called Baggage Claim M, either for "medium" or "makeup."

They're available in six colors through Kahraman's brand, Living Cult, though no prices are listed.

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A Feat of Engineering Transports the World’s Best-Preserved Viking Ship to Its New Home

In 1903, on a farm in southeastern Norway, a once-in-a-lifetime discovery emerged from within a large yet unassuming mound in a field. When the spot was excavated in 1904, the mound revealed an entire Viking longship that had been interred in its entirety as a burial containing the remains of two women, several animals, and a wide array of elaborately decorated objects.

Known as the Oseberg Viking Ship after the name of the farm where it was discovered, the vessel is thought to have been built around 820 and buried around 834. Reconstructions over the past several decades have suggested that...

The Net - character and key illustration design project

Designing Healthcare Access with Empathy and Innovation

The WE app, a 2025 Honoree in the Core77 Design Awards, represents a thoughtful exploration of how design can mediate between vulnerable users and complex systems. Developed by QIMU Design, with designers Shuting Jiang and Tianyue Wu, the project asks what it means to create tools that do more than solve functional problems—they create trust, dignity, and belonging.

The design team began with a fundamental insight: immigrant women navigating healthcare in a new country often encounter not one but multiple layers of friction. Language, cultural expectations, and opaque bureaucracies intertwine, producing not just logistical hurdles but emotional strain. Rather...

Fantastic Industrial Design Case Study: Creating a Custom Orthotic, Fast, with Formlabs

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Here's a great piece of design, executed in a hurry. Unfortunately the designer never names himself, so we have no idea who he is or how to link back to him.

The anonymous designer was visited by a colleague, who had recently injured his hand and was wearing an uncomfortable orthotic.

The designer resolved to design and produce a better one, custom-fit to the colleague's hand. Said colleague wouldn't be in town for long, so the job was done in a rush. The SnugFit 3D scanning app, orthotic design software caleld Spentys and Formlabs SLA and SLS...

An Interactive Public Bench with User-Adjustable Seating

This ADP Bench (Adults Don't Play) is by Copenhagen-based architecture/design firm Spacon.

Designed for public spaces, it provides user-adjustable seating for people of various heights.

Alternatively, the seats can also be used as table-height surfaces.

The bench is in production by Danish furniture manufacturer +Halle, which holds annual "briefings:" Brainstorming sessions for designers and architects, built around a different theme each time, with the intent of exploring public behavior in common spaces. This year's briefing, from which the ADP emerged, was "Playing."

Harp and Harp reinterprets suburban architecture for Croydon housing

Architecture studio Harp and Harp has finished a residential development in London with pale bricks, red roof tiles and pale green window frames in a characterful take on its Art and Crafts-style neighbours.

Named 158 Purley Downs Road, the project comprises seven family homes and replaces a single home and large garden in the suburban village of Sanderstead, Croydon.

The creation of 158 Purley Downs Road was enabled by the Croydon Suburban Design Guide – an initiative by the Mayor of Croydon to alleviate housing shortages through the densification of the...

Ten key buildings by high-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw

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Following the news of the passing of high-tech pioneer Nicholas Grimshaw at age 85, we revisit 10 highlights from the British architect's five-decade-long career.

In this roundup of movies, originally published in 2019 when Grimshaw stepped down as chairman of his studio, the highly respected architect talks through 10 buildings that defined his career.

The projects include high-profile buildings such as the Eden Project and the International Terminal at Waterloo Station, which won the RIBA Building of the Year award – the predecessor to the Stirling Prize.

It also features early high-tech buildings from Grimshaw's partnership with celebrated British architect Terry Farrell.

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