ross lovegrove designed a speaker to look like a river pebble. rounded, no straight edges, gold driver like a mechanical flower. kef ls luxe.

rive's new shape builder lets you click a region to split it, drag across shapes to merge them, or hold alt to erase. one tool out of a genuinely packed update this time.

figma make now has a properties panel for direct visual edits, plus annotations for changes that need a prompt but with precise context pinned to the exact element. point, prompt, done. bridging design and code just got more literal.

umeå institute of design grad mårten malmnäs collaborated with bang & olufsen on a speaker with no screen and no app, just a physical "sonic token" you use to navigate by sound. called it "a fireplace for music." beosound tableau.

frank gehry's guggenheim abu dhabi opens 11 december 2026 on saadiyat island, its clashing forms deliberate, not accidental. gehry passed away last december. this one opens without him.

spotify's running mode turns playlists into full running sessions matched to your goals, taste and tempo. 25 presets, bpm control, audio coaching. music finally adapting to pace instead of the other way around.

linear now lets you review diffs, comment on specific lines, and steer an agent session straight from your phone. coding doesn't stop when you leave your desk anymore.

update. sales target already hit, and the first drivers are calling it one of the most authentic ferraris in years. history was made, it just needed time. ferrari luce

Martin 👀@maneken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

jony ive designed a ferrari. it's electric. it has 1,000hp. stocks dropped 8%. history was made anyway.

honor's new logo is a circle with a diagonal stripe cutting through it, meant to represent "breaking through perfection." tagline "dare to be." bold move against apple and samsung's playbook.

nike and hyperice built a slide with a magnetic pod strapped in, delivering heat up to 47°c and vibration to relax the foot. recovery gear that replaces the everyday slip-on instead of sitting in a bag.

chip is a tiny electric car that parks itself, drives home empty, and can fetch your curbside order without you in it. 100 miles a charge. calling it a "life utility vehicle" instead of a car is the real move.

japan built a human sized fridge. one person cooling booth, 5°c air, stops heat stroke in 20 minutes, half the energy of a portable ac. climate reality shaping product design now.

bandit9 stripped a ducati 821 down and rebuilt it as a sculpture. hand shaped aluminum, carbon fiber rear, less parts but every surface more critical. limited to 9 units.

burger king france calls it "boomer king." '80s and '90s themed menu, saved by the bell socks, knight rider tee, canada dry. self aware nostalgia bait and it works.

rezvani took a lamborghini huracan's v10 heart and built an off-road beast around it. 800 horsepower, snorkel intake, mud tires. only seven will exist.

mvrdv just won a landmark competition with seven giant rocks stacked on a rotterdam riverbank. bold doesn't even cover it. rotterdam rocks.

range rover gt's camo wrap isn't random. it's the actual topographic contours of gaydon, turned into a gold pattern. inside, the instrument cluster is gone, replaced by a single screen plus a separate driver display.

swatch priced this one at 1969's gold rate. not today's market. access worked the same way - mock esta form, 32 questions, only 1969 approved. swatch x omega mission to the moon 1969.

blender added node based cloth physics and the internet lost it. free. open source. still outperforming half the paid tools out there.

la revoltosa. spanish soda born in 1953. dormant for years. waka brought it back. same historic logo, redrawn. the brand talks to you in first person. that's a different way to do a rebrand.

linear just shipped loops. describe a recurring job, set a trigger, agent handles the rest.

coca-cola just refreshed its global brand identity. 140 years old. ribbon, red, spencerian script - all still there. just more confident. designed by jkr.

openai's first hardware. a button pad for codex agents. 13 keys, a joystick, a dial. color-coded status for live ai threads. co-built with work louder - same studio behind the framer f1 keyboard. 👀

someone built a beer tap into a surfboard. 10 liters, pressurized chamber, fully functional. beerboard by chris garrett x phantom surfboards x gage roads brew co. 🍺

one sphere. four tubes. that's the entire car. audi zerø concept by wini camacho. reduction as design philosophy. 👀

half of july. 27 films. what's your number? 🎬 @letterboxd.social

tinder's first rebrand in nearly a decade by porto rocha. new serif, all caps wordmark, dating columnist as the brand voice. "happily TBD" instead of "happily ever after." designing for contradiction on purpose.

a vintage atm that reads your face, palm, and psyche. generates a personalized psychological profile as a lyrical horoscope. hp*atm by eness asks one question: why do we trust machines with our most intimate data? 👀

base44 just dropped a new look. clean upgrade.

hundreds of rj45 ethernet connectors. blue cable triple stripes. keycap laces. cory infinite customized adidas xlg 2.0 for teezo touchdown. this is art.