The Power Strip That Actually Moves With Your Desk - Yanko Design
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Anyone who has ever crawled under a standing desk at 6 a.m. trying to find an outlet knows the specific frustration of modern furniture.
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Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Anyone who has ever crawled under a standing desk at 6 a.m. trying to find an outlet knows the specific frustration of modern furniture.
Yanko Designby Sarang Sheth13d ago
Fifty one years. That’s how long Wish You Were Here has been sitting in the canon, selling something like 20 million copies, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and generally being...
Yanko Designby Sarang Sheth13d ago
Amsterdam gets around 1,600 hours of sunshine a year. Los Angeles gets close to 2,500. Anne Berends spent years feeling that difference, which is a very common Dutch experience and a very uncommon...
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Every few months, I go down the rabbit hole of homes for sale that promise total escape without an actual commitment to distance.
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Most desk objects disappear the moment they do their job. A stapler staples. A tape dispenser dispenses.
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Most gaming controllers are built for an idea of a hand, not an actual one. They’re symmetrical, boxy, covered in ridges meant to accommodate everyone equally, which usually means they fit no one...
Yanko Designby Gaurav Sood13d ago
A laptop with three screens sounds excessive until the setting changes. At a desk, it would be an elaborate workstation.
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Most Bluetooth speakers look the same. They are round, black, rubberized, and built to disappear into a shelf or a beach bag without asking anyone to notice them twice.
Yanko Designby Ida Torres13d ago
Standing scooters have a way of quietly sorting the world into two groups: people who can hop on and zip off, and everyone else.
Yanko Designby Srishti Mitra13d ago
The bag you carry every morning is only as good as what is attached to it. Fall shifts the equation.
Yanko Designby JC Torres13d ago
Every gaming PC eventually reveals itself under load, fans spinning up, temperatures climbing, a quiet admission that something demanding is happening inside the case.
Yanko Designby JC Torres13d ago
Tech companies test colors the way restaurants test seasonal menu items, quietly, without much commitment, ready to pull them the moment sales dip.
Yanko Designby JC Torres13d ago
Most mice quietly assume something about the person using them. Right-handed by default, with a thumb shelf that only makes sense from one side, they’ve trained an entire industry to treat...
Yanko Designby JC Torres13d ago
Despite what showroom demos suggest, nobody actually watches TV in a blacked-out room with the blinds drawn.
Yanko Designby Sarang Sheth14d ago
Here’s a fun rule of thumb: the less effort something takes to use, the more effort someone spent making sure it works. Good waiters make service invisible.
Yanko Designby Ida Torres14d ago
Every fall, the same ritual plays out in backyards across the country. Someone drags out the fire pit, gets the flames going, and within twenty minutes the whole group has rearranged their chairs...
Yanko Designby Srishti Mitra14d ago
Kobe-based Tato Architects has never been a studio that plays it safe, and the House in Mibu — a 108-square-metre family home nestled inside the backyard of a client’s parental estate in Tochigi...
Yanko Designby Sarang Sheth14d ago
Sony killed the MiniDisc in 2006 with the MZ-RH1, a recorder so good that people still pay silly money for working ones on eBay.
Yanko Designby Sarang Sheth14d ago
We called the PS5 the most beautiful console in the world on reveal day in 2020, and I still mostly mean it.
Yanko Designby Gaurav Sood14d ago
MSCHF is known for creating things out of the ordinary that defy logic. The Hot Wheels collaboration and Mercedes-AMG furniture collection are prime examples.