Objeckt Creative’s FORM + MATTER Mobile Skincare Lab

A beautiful in-store product testing platform

There’s a beautiful piece of design work housed within Californian skincare brand FORM + MATTER‘s partner stores: SocialStudies. It’s a mobile testing laboratory—designed to engage customers, and envisioned by their Berkeley-based parent-company Objeckt Creative. In essence, a shop within a shop, this riff on a classic wooden A-frame structure does more than offer a minimalist, usable presentation of product; its core design DNA matches that …

A Power Plant that Puffs Smoke Rings

In addition to having both a ski slope and a rock-climbing wall on its exterior, Copenhagen’s future Amager Resource Center—designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)—plans to include a smoke stack that will emit massive steam rings into the sky. The steam rings will signify each time the super-clean energy plant generates a ton of carbon dioxide, reminding the city’s residents of what’s really going on …

Yo! Home’s Stylish, Space-Saving Interior

The latest interior concept to come from the mind of Simon Woodroffe—the creator of the futuristic air travel-inspired Yotel Hotel chain—is a modular, space-saving apartment called the Yo! Home. Looking to serve the general public and not just the wealthy, Woodroffe designed the concept space to be both affordable and stylish, taking every living situation into mind. The Yo! Home makes the most of its …