Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

The beauty of art and design is their ability to inspire and spawn new creations born from old, like a phoenix rebirthing. Now if you ever thought that wallet design could take influences from architecture, it would sound outwardly absurd, but just look at the RIN Wallet and you’ll see how design influences carry seamlessly from one form/discipline to another.

The wallet comes with a textured exterior who’s free-flowing organic patterns aren’t just great to hold, they even create a slight bit of friction in one’s pocket, allowing you to feel as the wallet slips in or out. The visual and tactile detail, therefore, adds not just to the beauty of the wallet, but also becomes a feature integral to safety. The organic pattern draws inspiration from textured walls often used in modern interiors and exteriors, creating a play of light that gives it a flavor of contemporary architecture, and in turn creates something absolutely new.

Open the wallet and you’re greeted with a criss-cross of lines that give the wallet a third dimension. Looking like a two-point perspective grid, the lines are stamped into the leather, adding texture to the wallet that feels more real and unique than the grains of the leather. It gives the wallet a sense of depth as the human eyes perceive it as a three-dimensional plane.

This one-of-a-kind aesthetic is achieved by melding together three types of leather and the craftsmanship behind them. The textured exterior comes made in EPI leather while the diagonal lines on the inside are heat pressed into supple calf leather. Binding these two together is the third, Italian Leather that lends a traditional touch to the wallet. On the inside, the RIN is lined with polyester and even comes with special RFID pockets for your cards. The bifold can hold 8 or more notes and cards, and stands at a sleek 1cm thick. Ensuring your wallet always remains sleek and light, the RIN even comes with a separate coin barrel that holds your metal currency. The barrel can be fastened to your belt hoop thanks to a carabiner clip, allowing you to have change ready when you need it, but without adding unnecessary bulk to your back pocket or slowly damaging the shape of the wallet.

The RIN comes in four distinctive color combinations that add to its modern flavor. Designed to be not just useful, but also memorable, the RIN takes inspiration from an unusual place, but displays its execution with sheer ease, making it a wallet that looks absolutely a class apart, but only because it literally is!

Designer: Chris Paragas

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Each wallet is meticulously hand-painted with a special wax coating to prevent edges from fraying with long term use.

Other bi-fold wallets accommodate more cards by stacking layers of leather, thus making the wallet unnecessarily bulky. By integrating a card slot to the main leather panel, we are able to cut down the use of leather by 70%, while still allowing the user to organize and hold just as much cards as any traditional bi-fold design.

With the RIN bi-fold, we combined 3 distinct leathers: the classic and natural finish of imported Italian leather, the free-flowing contoured design of epi-leather and the geometric heat-pressed calfskin to conceive the perfect distribution of a minimalist, yet complex aesthetic.

To protect your RFID enabled credit cards, we embedded a metal fabric within the outer leather panel of the wallet. Both compartments can be utilized to hold RFID enabled credit cards, movie tickets, receipts or any other personal belongings.

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The Treehole is a modern communication device that earns its namesake from an age-old legend that goes something like this: if you happen upon a tree with a naturally formed hole, you can lean in close and whisper to it your deepest secrets — your secret will be kept safe and live within the tree forever! Pretty cute, eh? Inspired by this folktale, Treehole presents a modern way to store and share your “secrets” with the one you love.

It’s designed to be installed in any room in the house where it can connect to wifi. Using its simplistic interface that’s shaped like a tree, you can lean in leave a secret message for your loved one OR use your smartphone to record something remotely. It’s perfect for the shy guy or anyone looking to spice things up! When they see that its indicator light is flashing, they’ll know they have a secret something waiting for them. All they have to do is press the center button to play!

Designer: Ryan Yeung

Minimalism is slowly making its way across to the automotive industry one bike and car at a time. And the Kalk Electric Dirt Bike is no exception. It’s quite simply delicious. Designed for light off-roading, this eco-friendly bike is somewhat of an art project if you happen to catch it from the side. The bike’s overall minimalism may be what makes it so desirable. The pastel grey/blue body frame is a minimalistic masterpiece which is used to shield the 15 kW mid motor, powered by a 51.8 Volt, 50Ah battery for torque and range – conducted by specifically developed and tuned software, for the controller and dynamic performance.

The light and snappy ride, with its focus on off-road and trail riding in the outback, means that its main character is about torque and acceleration while providing a quiet gliding and surf experience. Thanks to its digital presetting it ́ll let anyone fly at their own level. Available for preorder soon, the limited pre-batch has a number of unique features, where a majority of its alloy parts are CNC machined, together with the plastic parts being made of carbon fiber and then painted.

Designer: David Gonzalez of CAKE

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Second to roasting directly over a fire, cooking on hot rocks or stone is one of the oldest methods of cooking. Despite sounding somewhat antiquated, it’s still one of the best ways to experience food cooked to perfection! However, if you don’t have a wood-fired oven or outdoor area to burn, chances are this method is out of reach. Until now, that is! The Stone Cooker brings this age-old technique into the modern home in the form of a compact appliance you can use any place where there’s a power outlet.

The internal volcanic rock is heated with electricity, making it a perfect cooking medium. Safely contained within the unit, chefs and novice cooks alike can enjoy stone cooking’s pure taste and health benefits of using very little oil and less leftover fat. Simply switch it on, set your food type, and place ingredients ranging from meat to bread and cook to your liking!

Designer: Melahat Köşeli

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve never seen a BBC Documentary talking about the octopus’s obsession with oranges. However, that shouldn’t stop your imagination from running, now should it? OTOTO’s Octo is probably the world’s first and only citrus-friendly sea creature. Its shape is designed to resemble the octopus’ eight-tentacled form, but at the same time, it’s perfect for gripping, and also for juicing, allowing you to use its organic tentacular base to squeeze fresh juice out of all citrus-based fruits, from oranges to limes, to the occasional grapefruit.

OTOTO’s products always embody a certain familiar friendliness. Designed to be appealing to the child in you, the Octo, and all of OTOTO’s products possess a storytelling quality, connecting form and even sometimes name to something out of our imagination, letting you build complex wonderlands by just owning and using their products. Great job, OTOTO! You’ve won our hearts again!

Designer: Almond Studio for OTOTO

The Ressence slogan reads “Beyond Hands”, and does so for a reason. Look at the Type 2 watch and you’ll notice it’s a traditional watch but has no hands! The hands are painted onto the curved face of the watch, which itself rotates, thanks to its fragmented design. A complete pleasure to watch, the Ressence Type 2 comes with a hypnotic domed face that is said to have the curvature of a tennis ball. The face comes with a domed glass above it that almost feels like it isn’t there. Once your eyes move away from the unusual design of the watch dial, you also notice that it’s missing a signature crown. This is because the Type 2 features an E-Crown, allowing it to automatically synchronize with your smartphone to give you the correct time, every time, without the hassle of calibration.

Flip the watch over and you have a manual dial built into the back, allowing you to tune/calibrate your watch, need be. The watch knows when it’s being worn and goes into sleep mode when taken off. Just double tap it and it will immediately recalibrate and give you the correct time with its patented dial dancing to your time-reading needs. I honestly could watch this forever…

Designer: Ressence Watches

Spotted, dotted and covered with pure exhilarating design, the McLaren Special Operations X (MSO X) is a bespoke collection of ten road-legal race cars, built for speed. Aesthetically edgy, and mean to look at, the MSO X is McLaren’s division, dedicated to helping push McLaren owner’s precise tastes and dreams to the edge. Having launched in 2011, the MSO program is somewhat of a most elite group of individuals – and you would have to be in order to purchase one of these bespoke road demons.

MSO offers five tiers, and the MSO X is easily the most exciting. Focused primarily on track racing, the road-legal race car has all the trims and details of something that should be covered in sponsorship. The large swoop along either side of the car breaks up this otherwise flawless body. While the drips of red that are carefully placed around the car help to highlight and accentuate features like the rear fins and the front hood lock. Quite a low body, and well evened out, the MSO X models look mean, and I’m sure they’re ready to do business.

Designer: McLaren