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Glowing Eustoma Lamps

Yen-Hsun Su Lamps Idea Sunday, 15 November 2026

Glowing Eustoma

Glowing Eustoma is a living flower lamp created as a conceptual lighting design. The eustoma is a flower that appears green in daylight and gives off light at night. A biotechnology process allows the plant to glow through leaf vein absorption of high-entropy oxides, which are in line with European Union standards. No genetic modification is used, and the flower grows in the same way as a natural one. Several luminous colors are shown each night. The flower measures 50 mm in width, 50 mm in depth and 350 mm in height. The intent is to offer a calm experience at night.

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Journey Mate Sound Explored Backpack

Chunmao Wu Sound Explored Backpack Idea Saturday, 14 November 2026

Journey Mate

Journey Mate is a smart modular backpack which can enrich travel experiences. The innovations of this product are presented as follows. First, the modular structure can offer convenient feelings, which can be stored and carried easily all day long. Second, the interactive visualized sound provides travelers with a pleasure and memory experience via their visual-auditory interaction. Third, supported by the intellectual technology, the module keeps the real human elements of the travelled city, that enrich the quality of individuals travel life via voice library and world footprint library.

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The Folding Boat Community Center

xuechen chen Community Center Idea Friday, 13 November 2026

The Folding Boat

The Folding Boat, located along the shore of the Harlem River, is a multifunctional space serving as a rowing facility for the community college, a small library, and a museum dedicated to sport rowing. Featuring a folded metal roof, this structure defines its interior space by seamlessly blending walls into ceilings. Positioned at the convergence of historical and modern districts, the meticulous placement of elements respects programs, circulation, and the urban landscape.

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The Book That Grew Grazing Guide

Fabiano Dalmácio Grazing Guide Idea Thursday, 12 November 2026

The Book That Grew

The Book That Grew is a grazing guide created for farmers in Ireland. The book presents 10 lessons and 10 pieces of practical advice that help improve sustainability on farms. Each page, each word and each diagram was formed by real grass roots as they grew. The roots were guided over several weeks by a combination of gardening and careful craft, so the printing process was completed by nature. Complex farming processes are explained through a set of bespoke symbols, and a fold-out page lets the reader check the symbol key while reading. Closed, the book measures 29.7 by 42 centimeters.

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SpaceV Vending System Experience

Tiange Wang and I-Yang Huang Vending System Experience Idea Wednesday, 11 November 2026

SpaceV

SpaceV is a digitally enabled space vending system for future wellbeing. It offers a variety of customizable spaces via a vending system for individuals to book by the minutes. The design celebrates qualities of automation, modularity and scalability of vending machines and merges spatial, interaction and service design into a holistic physicals experience. High polish 3D visualizations are used to storyteller the human-centered experience. This experience blueprint for future wellbeing in the city leverages the vending system and speculates: what if a vending machine becomes a building?

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ReCollection Interactive AI Art Experience Design

Weidi Zhang and Jieliang Luo Interactive AI Art Experience Design Idea Tuesday, 10 November 2026

ReCollection

ReCollection is an interactive art installation that forms images of personal memories from spoken language. Participants whisper a fragmented memory into a microphone. An artificial intelligence system converts the speech into text, completes the sentence as a short narrative, and generates images from the narrative. The images are then processed algorithmically into an evolving real-time visualization. The installation explores the relation between language, memory and imagination, and is also intended as a prototype for future work with people affected by dementia.

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Designer of the Day

Designer of the DaySpecial CoverageSunday, 8 November 2026

World's Best Designers, Artists and Architects.

Good design deserves great recognition. Everyday, we are pleased to feature amazing designers who create original and innovative designs, amazing architecture, stylish fashion and creative graphics. Today, we are presenting you one of the World’s best designers. Checkout an award-winning design portfolio today and get inspired.

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