Closca’s Collapsible Bike Helmet

The Kickstarted bike helmet, now available to the public, folds flat to store easily between rides

What deters many from strapping on a helmet before biking to the grocery store or utilizing a city’s bike-share program is oftentimes the burden of carrying around the bulky (but potentially life-saving) accessory after the bike is parked. Here’s where the foldable bike helmet from Valencia, Spain-based start-up Closca comes in, one of the few European models that complies with US safety requirements. The Closca …

Cannondale Bad Boy 1: Urban Performance

On the road with the agile yet street smart ride that's making us rethink hybrids

Hybrid bikes tend to attract unanimously negative connotations from purist cyclists—and often rightly so. Most popular with beginners or those who turn the pedals once a year, hybrids draw on design characteristics from purpose-built classes of bikes like road and mountain bikes to create an easy, smooth, if not performance-minded ride (think overly padded saddles and geometry that feels like it’s designed to constrain power …

Lenneke Wispelwey Ceramics

Geometric patterns meet thoughtful pastels in the Dutch ceramicist's array of housewares

There’s an elegant simplicity to the work of Arnhem, Netherlands-based ceramicist Lenneke Wispelwey. There’s also a touch of mathematical fun. As a whole, her work is easily recognizable for two specific reasons. Regardless of what design object she is constructing—be it a plate or a carafe—orderly geometric shapes add clean structural definition. As for color, Wispelwey (who founded her studio in 2008) works primarily in …