Paper is the fragile part of these lamps. Maison Cédrat made it replaceable
Aura pairs extruded clay with handcrafted washi, but its best detail is quieter: the shade can be replaced without discarding the heavy body of the lamp.
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Eight years to record what animators know but rarely write down
Walking with Animators gathers more than 70 artists after eight years of filming. Its value lies less in retelling animation history than in preserving methods, gestures and disagreements.
She ties everything precisely, then lets the work deform
Won Ji Lim builds highly ordered systems and then deliberately stops correcting them. Casing, soil, rope, humidity and gravity keep working after her hands leave the piece.
To Exhibit Buses, This Museum Starts by Building a Bridge
An unselected proposal for Madrid's future EMT museum split two problems apart: reinforced concrete would carry heavy buses while an almost weightless ETFE skin closed the building around them.
The Sennheiser MTW5's three batteries swap out with a screwdriver
For the first time on true wireless earbuds, both buds and the case on the Momentum True Wireless 5 accept a user-replaceable battery with a simple screwdriver.
At Los Aparatos, the Keyboard Disappears and the World Becomes the Controller
Light, graphite, plants, hands and voltage: Los Aparatos builds instruments in Tucumán where a physical phenomenon can replace part of the keyboard and make experimentation the first move.
This box modernizes a bench supply without opening it
PSU-EXT sits between a bench supply and the circuit under test, adding measurement, protection, SCPI and automation. Its manufacturing files are already public even though the product is still in pre-launch.
Takuto Ohta didn't design 50 pieces of furniture. He tested 200 logs
log x began with roughly 200 irregular Yoshino cedar logs, not a finished collection. For two months, each cut became a test the next log could inherit.
In Quito, this bench holds over 1,000 litres of rain before it reaches the network
Yaku looks like shaded street furniture. Under its 27 m² footprint it stores and infiltrates rain; the pilot retained over 1,000 litres during one event before that water could load the drainage network.
LG’s real OLED breakthrough is a full sheet of glass
FLiPP replaces the metal stencil used for RGB OLEDs with photolithography. That idea already exists elsewhere; LG’s more interesting claim is applying it to a full Gen 8.5 mother glass.