Virtual Nostalgia Meets DIY VR
Nintendo's Virtual Boy resurrection transforms a 90s failure into today's most unexpected design statement. Sometimes the future arrives by looking back.
Rebuilding the Mecha Mythos: Ember Toys’ Blaze Dynazenon
Ember Toys strips away the noise of nostalgia-driven collectibles, delivering pure sculptural intent with their Blaze Dynazenon figure. This isn't childhood revisited—it's craft elevated.
Blind Boxes & Lo-Fi Nostalgia
Kodak's Charmera transforms the throwaway camera into a collectible artifact, where nostalgia meets gamified anticipation. Each palm-sized unit arrives in mystery colors, turning photography back into play.
LEGO Elevates with Minerals
LEGO's new Mineral Collection trades superhero nostalgia for something more elemental—six geological specimens reimagined as sculptural statements. It's a quiet revolution in collectible culture, where pyrite and amethyst become the new must-haves.
Aston Martin’s Egg3: Performance Parenting
When luxury automaker meets nursery necessity, the result is more than just premium parenting—it's cultural code-switching at 3 mph.
Land Rover Classic: Churchill Edition
When heritage meets intentionality, the result transcends mere automotive nostalgia. Land Rover Classic's Churchill Edition redefines what it means to honor the past without being imprisoned by it.
Minimalism in Motion: Polar Loop Rejects the Screen and Subscription Model
The Polar Loop arrives as a deliberate counterpoint to the attention economy, stripping wellness tech down to its essential gesture. Here, minimalism isn't just aesthetic—it's philosophical.
Tiny Vinyl Is Reinventing How We Spin
Analog culture gets a precision edit with Tiny Vinyl—four-inch singles that compress vintage ritual into pocketable design statements. It's retro aesthetics meets Gen Z minimalism, where scale becomes the story.
Apple Turns the iPhone Into a Wearable Statement Piece
Apple's Crossbody Strap transforms the iPhone from pocket device to wearable statement—tech as fashion, not just function. The $59 accessory signals a cultural shift where phones become part of the fit, not hidden beneath it.
iPhone Air: Slimmed to Pure Signal
The iPhone Air strips technology down to its purest intention, proving that in a world of excess, restraint becomes revolutionary. Apple's latest whispers where others scream.
Pokémon, Reimagined in Your Palm
Takara Tomy's Pokémon Poké-nade transforms the virtual pet into a design object that bridges tactile nostalgia with contemporary minimalism. This Japan-exclusive device reimagines the Poké Ball as a sensory interface that prioritizes touch over visual noise.
Botanical Beats: Pocket Scion Turns Nature Into Sound
When Glasgow's Instruo collaborates with sound artist Modern Biology, the result defies convention—a $149 handheld synth that reads nature's bioelectric whispers. Pocket Scion transforms viral mushroom-modular experiments into something tangible and profound.
Seiko x Pepsi: Time in a Can
Seiko and Pepsi's collaboration produces wrist-worn timestamps that blur nostalgia with design precision. Two Seiko 5 Sports models—SRPL99 and SSK047—capture distinct eras through bold graphics, cultural memory, and mechanical substance that transcends typical co-branding.
WA Lamp: Light From Transit
Tokyo’s perpetual motion finds unexpected stillness in the WA Table Lamp by Akasaki & Vanhuyse. Discarded strap handles from the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line—once gripped by countless commuters—stack into sculptural columns that transform transit remnants into vessels for light and memory.
Redefining the Sole: Modular Sneakers Built for a Circular Future
Daniyar Uderbekov’s UDRB sneaker pushes back against fleeting drops and throwaway culture through Central Asian craftsmanship merged with 3D printing technology. Climbing rope becomes lacing, the silhouette goes glue-free, and every choice aligns beauty with purpose in ways that feel both ancestral and radical.
Designing the Dish: Gustaf Westman Crowns IKEA’s Meatball
Gustaf Westman takes Sweden’s humblest icon—the IKEA meatball—and gives it the full industrial design treatment. His signature curvy minimalism meets cheeky irreverence in an unlikely collaboration that transforms comfort food into statement dining via glossy, oblong porcelain tray in ultramarine blue.
BE@RBRICK AUDIO: MICKEY, REMIXED
Disney’s most iconic silhouette gets sculptural sound treatment through MEDICOM TOY and RINARO ISODYNAMICS collaboration. The BE@RBRICK AUDIO Mickey Mouse 400% preserves pop-art form while housing powerful quad-driver system inside that familiar head—playback and volume controlled via rotating hands that turn Mickey into tactile interface.
Waves: Eyewear That Captures Life Unfiltered
Bould Design’s Waves merges wearable tech with refined industrial language, positioning a nearly invisible 12MP lens below the bridge for seamless POV capture. Available in Onyx Square or retro-futurist Silver, the eyewear transforms filming from device interaction into cinematic extension of vision itself.
Steel and Signal: The Unexpected Merge of Damascus and Data
Damascus steel transcends myth through YouTuber Alec Steele’s radical intervention—centuries-old forging technique shaped into scannable QR code via 21x21 grid. This isn’t metalwork as display but functional interface, welding ancient craft with digital utility to create textured bridge between analog mastery and immediate connection.
When Old Masters Meet Modern Audio
CASETIFY transforms Apple’s AirPods Max into a living tableau with their Girl with a Pearl Earring cover—a sculptural homage that drapes silky textiles and faux pearl over everyday hardware. More than a protective sleeve, it’s wearable art history where Vermeer’s 17th-century muse meets 21st-century audio, turning utility into cultural spectacle.