Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

When it comes to inspiration, the things we use on a daily basis can trickle down into our work… and this juicer designer feels much like that! It’s almost as if the designer looked down at their pencil one day and thought… juice! Created by Elinor Portnoy, this alternative juicer takes on the form of a familiar writing utensil. and presents an interesting and elegant new way to juice.

Made entirely of smooth glass, its as sculptural as it is functional. Simply push down your favorite citrus fruit on the multifaceted top to extract fresh juice. Best to place it in a bowl as the juice runs down the sides. It seems a bit niche, but if you’ve got a sketcher or writer in your life that loves freshly squeezed juice… I guess it’s perfect!

Designer: Elinor Portnoy

Inspired by a plant (of the same name) who’s flowers are said to turn with the sun, the Turnsole lamp brings a bit of warmth and industrial style to any space. According to designer Mindaugas Petrikas, the lamp shade opening should always be pointed at a wall so that, like the flower, it looks to the bright spot, always facing the light! With its spindly legs and light color scheme, it’s eye-catching without being visually cluttering.

Its legs are connected by three ropes. This creates tension in only one axis, allowing the legs to move sideways with ease, but preventing them from moving back and forth. The ropes are attached to a steel turnbuckle which adjusts the tension and the footprint of the tripod. While they’re not telescopic, this adjustable system allows the user to adapt the lamp to spaces with varying width and height requirements.

Designer: Mindaugas Petrikas

You could own an android tablet… or you could turn any plain surface into your android tablet! The Touchjet Pond isn’t your regular pico projector. The Pond is a complete android system attached to a projector, with its own touch input stylus!

Designed to be able to project an 80-inch screen, the Pond comes with a remote to navigate through programs, but what’s truly game changing is the stylus, that allows you to tap/swipe and even draw on the projected surface, making the Pond an absolute boon for presentations, education, design work, and even for entertainment! The entire device fits in the palm of your hand and can slide into any bag or briefcase along with the touch-input stylus and the remote controller. The Pond comes with the Android OS built in, and can even pair with other devices to work as a regular projector device. It even packs speakers and an aux jack for the added punch.

The Pond projector is capable of taking up to 4 touch inputs, allowing four people with styluses to operate the device, drawing simultaneously on the projected screen… or a single person work using multi-touch (one stylus in each hand). The Pond is a true game changer, allowing people to interact directly with office presentations, or turn their wall into a canvas to truly make larger-than-life artworks… or play Fruit Ninja on possibly the biggest display ever!

Designer: Touchjet

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The old-timey construction of the Zilalila Nest Knitted Beanbag chair evokes another era, but the minimalistic shape and monochromatic colors feel entirely new and sophisticated. This cozy floor cushion is perfect in pairs on the floor. Warm and enveloping, they make for a comfy collaboration spot in the workplace or a soft spot to lounge and catch up on your favorite book at home. Hand-knit in Nepal and filled with recycled EPS material, the design is as sustainable as it is comfortable.

Designer: Zilalila

If you’ve found yourself moving your glasses and what you’re trying to read simultaneously, then you’ll understand the frustration in finding that sweet spot. Youngdo Choi has designed the Moving Table, a device that helps low vision readers when reading books and documents by moving the upper tray part to secure the document while you adjust yourself to find the optimal viewpoint. The device itself is simple, neat and clean to prevent any distractions or unnecessary features that would steal one’s attention. The product itself consists of two buttons – one that controls the zoom feature of the document and the other which controls the page turning of the document, while the user can explore the page themselves with the touch screen function. Given its simplistic nature, the Moving Table is ideal for those of the older generation who may not be very tech savvy.

Designer: Youngdo Choi

The Scriba is a stylus so curvaceous, that it would make Luigi Colani proud. Its exaggerated design isn’t just a visual trademark, it’s also touted as one of the most comfortable styluses (stylii?) out there for people to make the smoothest transition from pen and paper, to digital drawing.

Made as a response to all other styluses that designer David Craig said felt like drumsticks, the Scriba looks and feels like no other. Its design is the kind your hand would love to grip, while it also ensures you have complete control as you sketch or write on your touchscreen with the rubber tip. The hollow silhouette of the Scriba comes with reason. The pen can literally be squeezed/triggered allowing you to assign a function to it. Artists can use the squeeze function to help increase brush line weight/thickness, while others can assign more traditional functions to it to allow you to skip slides in a presentations, or even get creative and use it as a remote trigger for the shutter on your camera. The Scriba provides a vastly better experience too by featuring tactile feedback, delivering discreet alerts and confirmations of your on-screen actions as gentle vibrations under your fingertips. This attention to detail helps Scriba be a stylus truly designed to be a better and more evolved iteration of its predecessor, the un-innovative drumstick stylus.

Armed with hundreds of hours of battery life and instant pairing, the Scriba is sure to change your perception/experience of and your expectations from the stylus as you know it.

Designer: David Craig

The Urus has been a long time coming! Especially since it’s initial reveal in 2012, Lamborghini casually dropped hints every few years, indicating a 2018 release and here we are now, with the car being unveiled in full grandeur… touted as one of the few Lamborghini cars with 4 seats… and a car that the company calls the world’s first Super Sports Utility Vehicle (SSUV).

It’s no surprise that any car Lamborghini pushes out will be quite the beast, and the Urus doesn’t disappoint. The car comes with a 4-liter twin-turbo V8 engine, puts out 641 brake horsepower and 627 lb-ft of torque, with a claimed 0 to 62 mph time of 3.6 seconds. The Urus is designed for practically every on and off road scenario you can envision. It comes with six drive modes, spread across various scenarios, allowing for easy driving, precision control, or absolute sports domination. The SSUV also comes with two ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) packages, for urban roads and for highways, keeping the driver in control and in safe hands throughout the ride.

However it’s not the insides of the car that excite us, it’s the exterior. Lamborghini has tried rather hard (and succeeded to quite an extent) to bring the aggressive supercar aesthetic to the SUV. Designed to be more widely accepted than Lamborghini’s more luxurious supercars, the Urus retains the Lambo spirit, with the hexagonal elements and edgy lines, but dials it down a notch to make it more street friendly. You can even notice the characteristic center peak at the bonnet, with the carmaker’s logo right beneath. The Urus even retains the Y shaped headlamp and taillamp designs along with the hexagonal side-mirrors… something that has pretty much become a part of the Lamborghini DNA. Speaking of the Lamborghini DNA, the car in the images below makes use of Lamborghini’s rather iconic yellow “Giallo Horus” color coat. It’s all these elements that when combined together help turn an amazing car into a Lamborghini automobile…

Designer: Automobilia Lamborghini