Smart Living
Smart living connects technology with the spaces, products and routines of everyday life. Connected homes, intelligent devices and automated systems introduce new ways to manage domestic environments and interact with objects. Their design involves questions of usability, efficiency and integration, examining how digital functions respond to practical needs and influence comfort, control and daily experiences within the home.
What happens when a material is grown rather than manufactured?
This gives rise to projects like Cenit and Lomo, which explore the potential of Celium™, a cultivated cellulose-based biomaterial grown using bacteria fed with agro-industrial waste. Developed by…
Breville Eye Q 850 Auto 2 Slice: the toaster that sees colour
Thanks to Sensability technology, this product features optical sensors that offer seven different browning levels and a dedicated mode for sourdough bread, introducing a new approach to toasting.
Designing for a billion people: design leadership at a different scale
Patrizio Cionfoli, SVP & Chief Design Officer at Havells India, on leading a 50-person design team across five brands, designing for a billion-person market, and why local relevance…
From needles to microdots: how CipherX is rethinking tattooing
Hundreds of tiny dissolvable needles deliver pigment into the skin through a small patch: London-based startup CipherX is rethinking tattooing by bringing together biotechnology, engineering, and design. Even…
What if your bike could detect a crash risk before you do?
Don’t wait for danger. Anticipate it. Canyon Predict combines cameras, radar and artificial intelligence to read what is happening on the road and predict potential risks. A system…
Can design really support mental wellbeing? 7 projects exploring the question
Wearable devices, domestic objects, and interactive systems are transforming emotions, memory, and meditation into new experiences of care. Wellness is no longer (only) about the body: design seems…
BAENUE: the light that follows our biological clock
How can lighting go beyond its functional role to become a tool for well-being? Through photobiological research and proprietary technology, Korean brand BAENUE explores an approach that places…
Rethinking outdoor living through everyday objects
More than 30 pieces of furniture, accessories and tools reinterpret the aesthetics of traditional camping as a system designed for everyday life. With Outdoor Market, HAY and Jasper…
Can the mop become a design object? From invisible utility to domestic desire
Joseph Joseph, with its new UltraClean, continues to guide us on how domestic tools can finally enter the vocabulary of contemporary aesthetics, shaping a new language where beauty…
SMEG at Milan Design Week 2026 marks a new approach to reframing its heritage
At EuroCucina 2026, SMEG expands its design language through Musa, designed by BorromedeSilva, and Isola, in collaboration with Stefano Boeri Interiors, introducing TOTAL MATTNESS and a renewed focus…
B!POD: Material science shaping everyday food preservation
Food preservation enters a new era, where B!POD redefines what everyday freshness means through design and material research. At Milan Design Week 2026, the brand presents Monograph at…
BorromeoDeSilva reshaping SMEG’s visual grammar with Musa
The collaboration with SMEG explained by BorromeoDeSilva’s Carlo Borromeo – and the discipline behind it: coherent geometries, a careful control of space, and what details are allowed to…