Milan Design Week 2017: Jessica Fügler and Elena Manferdini

We speak with the Lexus Design Award finalist and her mentor about turning concepts into the tangible

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When Jessica Fügler was selected as a finalist for the 2017 Lexus Design Award multidisciplinary creative Elena Manferdini, one of the program’s mentors, was drawn to her very conceptual proposal. Neither Fügler nor Manferdini knew what was going to become of the idea, exploring color shifting. Most other finalists had fully-fleshed out product ideas for the competition—the theme of which is the broad “Static Yet …

Interview: Artist and Designer Yinka Ilori

The passionate Nigerian-Brit shapes a sense of belonging into conceptual chairs

“When I went to Nigeria for the first time I saw my grandmother and she spoke no English at all, but she spoke to us through what she was wearing,” says artist/designer Yinka Ilori. “Her clothes were really beautiful and empowering—and she looked really happy. I wanted to take a bit of that from her, so I studied my culture and my language and identity …

Scientist Invents a Drip-Free Wine Bottle

Forget purchasing a wine spout, a Brandeis University biophysicist has done the impossible by inventing a wine bottle that does not drip. Daniel Perlman designed a bottle that features two-millimeter groove just below the tip which catches the droplets as the bottle is tipped back. This extra lip was the result of three years of study, wherein Perlman watched slow-motion videos of wine being poured, …