Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

A Tent for Chief Sitting-Cat

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 12:00 PM PDT

Kennels go outside the house, but something as uniquely quaint looking as the Pet Teepee is perfect for keeping indoors! The Pet Teepee by Montreal-based Wild and Loyal is built to add character to the home-decor, while also giving your pet a comfortable, yet visually adventurous hide-out.

Handmade from wooden poles and cotton canvas fabric, the tent is easy to set up anywhere and provides a cool and comfortable pet-haven. It also makes the Teepee easy to dismantle and wash periodically. The Pet Teepee comes in two sizes and with plush cushions to keep on the inside. Pets live a life that’s carefree and filled with tiny thrills. The Pet Teepee will surely add a different dimension to the adventure in your furry friend’s day!

Designer: Wild and Loyal

BUY IT HERE: $94.99 $115.00

“Herban” Gardening is Here!

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 09:00 AM PDT

Herb Garden makes it possible to practice your green thumb on fresh, organic herbs from the comfort of home! About the size of a refrigerator, it features 3 sets of growing chambers, an LED light box, air pump and a fan for atmospheric adjustments. This smart appliance is entirely operable via a mobile app where users can not only monitor internal conditions like humidity and water levels but also keep track of harvesting times, planting progress and trends. Perfect for urban dwellers, it’s an interactive way to get in touch with nature and practice gardening without the farm!

Designer: Mehmet Mehmetalioğlu

For the serious Smartphone Shutterbug

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 06:00 AM PDT

The iPhone camera isn’t one to be messed with. It’s gone head on with even DSLRs, becoming a professional photography medium in itself. Moment’s lenses push the iPhone’s boundaries, making it even better as a camera, but when you’ve got a camera that’s also your phone, messaging device, social media device, and email checker, you’re left with little battery for your photography.

Moment’s 2.0 battery case for the iPhone 7 is just perfect for the phone-photography enthusiast. It gives you serious battery chops, while also giving your phone the perfect grip for photo-taking. Moment makes some of the world’s best smartphone lenses, and these snap directly onto the case. A unique case for the iPhone 7 Plus allows you to choose which of the dual camera lenses you want to snap your Moment Lens to. I’ll have you know that this is the only smartphone case that does this!

On the design front, Moment is light years away from most of its competition. For starters, it looks volumes better than Apple’s humpback battery case. The Moment’s case also features an unusual surface quality. It employs a speckled plastic that almost gives it the appearance of stone or marble, but weighs only 3.4 ounces. The plastic case is further coated with a rubberized finish to provide better grip while using your phone in general, and taking pictures in particular. The Moment 2.0 case also includes within it a manual shutter button that is positioned perfectly for when you want to click a photo naturally without having to tap the screen (people with gloves, rejoice!). The shutter button connects to the phone via the Lightning Port, rather than Bluetooth, allowing it to be incredibly responsive because with photography, timing is everything!

There’s a pretty good chance that if you own an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, you own it because of the camera. Apple never failed to market its camera’s portrait mode as a true champion of realistic photography. Moment’s 2.0 case allows you to use that camera unbridled, never letting your battery stop you from capturing the world. Plus, with Moment’s series of lenses, you may as well sell that DSLR you have in your closet!

Designers: Audrey Louchart, Erik Hedberg (Moment Lenses)

The Perfect Coffee Maker for Micro-living!

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT

When you’re limited on counter space, the only way to go is up! That’s the idea behind MiO – a taller, slimmer coffee maker compared to today’s current bulky, round ones.

It’s vertical design is made possible thanks to its clever inverted construction. The water reservoir is located on the bottom and drip mechanism on top. The pot itself is located in the middle, making it easy to grab and ready to pour from the same height from which it is removed. Simplistic and intuitive controls paired with a slim, sleek design make it the perfect pot for your compact place!

Designer: Kyumin Hwang

A Smarter Stethoscope

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 12:00 AM PDT

After 200 years without change, the U Scope finally introduces some much-needed improvements to the stethoscope!

First, the chest piece is ergonomically designed to perfectly fit both the patient’s body and physician’s fingers. The ear piece is designed so that air doesn’t escape from the diaphragm, resulting in incredible sound quality and a sharp reduction in sound decay. For convenience, the design easily folds to a compact size capable of fitting in one’s pocket or coat. Better yet, physicians will experience enhanced comfort thanks to a 30% reduction in pressure of the ear pieces.

In lux finishes like champagne gold, white, silver, and black, there’s one to match and enhance every doctor or nurse’s scrubs or white coat!

Designer: Classico