Whipping Post’s Leather Roll-Top Backpack

The classic design gets a sizable update in pure vegetable-tanned leather

Specially designed technical backpacks have their place in everyone’s collection. Though not all designs are universal in function—high alpine trekking calls for a bag with particular features that aren’t entirely necessary for day hikes or the daily commute. For everyday life and short journeys, the roll-top is a classic rucksack design lauded for its protection from the elements, versatility in storage capacity and lack of …

OKOLO Concept Car Illustrations

The Prague-based art collective plays with visionary auto designs and period architecture in an editorial for Proc Ne?! magazine

As every World’s Fair has shown, the future has always been on the cusp of space age in the minds of architects and designers. Prague’s OKOLO art collective recently went back to the future, revisiting some visionary concept designs from decades past for a brilliant illustrated editorial for Proc Ne?! magazine. For the series, OKOLO depicts experimental automobile concepts alongside existing modern architecture, exploring how …

Martine Bedin’s “Sassy Objects”

The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Bordeaux is adding to its already impressive, first-ever Andrea Branzi retrospective with a dedicated Martine Bedin exhibition. In a show titled “L’objet déluré (Sassy Object),” Bedin—a founding member of Memphis—returns to her drawings of the ‘80s and ‘90s to realize them as actual objects. Her series of colorful and kooky post-modern pieces will be on display at …