Designboom

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Designboomunified by honeycomb geometry, maxon one’s brand identity unfolds through motion design MODULAR LOGO SYSTEM UNIFIES MAXON’S CREATIVE SOFTWARE layout Motion designer Casey Gu creates the Maxon One Brand Expression Film to introduce a unified visual identity across Maxon’s suite of…

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Designboomstefan sagmeister, neri&hu, and dani garcía lead interihotel MAD26’s creative rebellion rethinking the future of hospitality design From November 17 to 19, 2026, IFEMA Madrid transforms into a hub of optimistic innovation as interihotel MAD26 returns for its sixteenth edition.

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Designboomundulating plywood layers form stratum parametric public seating sculpture COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN YIELDS Stratum PARAMETRIC TIMBER BENCH STRATUM is a monumental parametric wooden bench designed and manufactured by Zorka Furniture for Haywood Mall in Greenville, South Carolina…

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Designboomboonserm premthada builds coastal office in thailand with reclaimed timber reclaimed timber carries its history forward Designed by Boonserm Premthada of Bangkok Project Studio, Traces by the Sea is a 440.7-square-meter office for Matalay in Khao Lak, Phang Nga, Thailand .

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Designboommirrored acrylic skin dissolves cube pavilion into its surroundings in mexico MIRROR-FINISH ACRYLIC PANELS CONCEAL pavilion IN GUADALAJARA Designed by errre taller, Sfumato is a temporary reflective pavilion that reinterprets the Cubo MEM, a prominent sculptural landmark at…

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Designboomdennis vanderbroeck creates settings for the moments that bring us together dennis vanderbroeck on designing experiences A fashion show or a live performance may last only a few minutes, but what happens in the room is harder to capture.

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Designboomsardinian school wraps in perforated aluminum facade to enclose flexible agorà CORRUGATED ALUMINUM SKIN ESTABLISHES A CIVIC LANDMARK IN SARDINIA Designed by Leicho architettura, the new Via Caravaggio school in Sinnai, Sardinia , replaces an obsolete structure with a civic…

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Designboomfrom laboratory waste to art, discarded research prototypes transform into sculptural objects DISCARDED RESEARCH PROTOTYPES turn into SCULPTURAL OBJECTS Developed by industrial designer and researcher Ruben Moutinho, THE FORM THAT REMAINED transforms discarded research prototypes…

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo