Upgrading From Foam Earplugs to EarPeace

The soft silicone plugs are convenient, comfortable and discreet

Among the chaos of logistics and pre-gaming when headed to a live show, hearing protection is often low on the list of priorities—and is only remembered when you leave with your ears ringing and buzzing. Merging convenience, comfort and sound quality is Venice Beach-based EarPeace, founded by music lover Jay Clark who wanted to protect one of his most valuable assets: his hearing. Your average …

Assembly Design’s 00 Clock

Juxtaposing measurement and abstraction, a grid wall-clock with reversible hands

Balancing a calculated academic approach with a very tactile studio process, the New York City-based duo Assembly Design (responsible for the imaginative furniture collaboration that debuted at this year’s ICFF) is now exploring familiar territory, after collaborating with artist Tauba Auerbach to create a conceptual wall-clock for The Thing Quarterly last year. Experimenting with gridded systems and the ways in which these arrangements create and …

Fold Pot by Emanuele Pizzolorusso

Silicone pots that grow with your plants

Certain designers have a knack for solving problems so basic that their creations feel immediately timeless. Industrial designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso is one of them. The Helsinki-based Italian creative responsible for a pre-crumpled city map for flustered tourists has now created the Fold Pot, a simple silicone container that grows along with the plant it contains. Plants grow—pots, not so much. The flexible design of Fold …