designboom guest posts in september 2025
See a curated selection of product innovations, from smart home tech to sustainable beverages, submitted by designboom guest readers from around the world. These posts showcase a wide range of projects, from modular furniture and reconfigurable systems to sustainable materials and thoughtful new solutions to everyday problems.
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name: Homebox
designer: Seung Keun Kim
Homebox is a smart storage solution developed to address the growing issues of package theft, weather damage, and delivery mismanagement in residential settings. The project aims to merge durability, security, and connectivity into a single, unobtrusive product that integrates seamlessly with the home environment. The unit is constructed from stainless steel, ensuring strength against forced entry as well as resistance to outdoor conditions such as rain and snow. Inside, a weight sensor detects package placement and triggers communication with the companion mobile app. Users receive instant notifications and can track delivery status remotely. To provide immediate visual feedback, LED indicators are embedded on the exterior: white signals readiness, green confirms delivery, and red alerts when the box is full.
agency: BBH Singapore
product: Unthinkables!
Chewing gum is famously banned in Singapore. To mark the nation’s 60th birthday, BBH Singapore has introduced what could be the country’s first legal chewing gum: a product called Unthinkables!. It looks, tastes, and chews like gum, but is made without a gum base — a deviously lateral solution that makes it technically legal. The project is a statement about the creative agency’s appetite for impossible ideas: those that make the unthinkable possible and tackle business problems with fame-driving solutions.
name: SELLO
designer: Antonio Lanzillo & Partners
manufacturer: Las Mobili
‘Chair + Stool?’ This simple question, scribbled down as a flash of intuition by designer Antonio Lanzillo, led to a revolution in furniture. The result is the Las Mobili SELLO, which boldly merges the functions of a chair and a stool into a single, typologically innovative piece. SELLO redefines the very act of sitting, offering a creative and forward-thinking response to the evolving needs of contemporary design.
name: CANOVA Toothpaste Dispenser
designer: Mara Pezzotta, Chrome Cherry Team
CANOVA is a sculptural toothpaste dispenser that elevates everyday design, making the morning routine feel more like a ritual than a rush. Conceived by industrial designer Mara Pezzotta and the Chrome Cherry team, the product bridges clean design with everyday simplicity, crafted from materials reminiscent of Italian Neoclassical sculpture and bringing a sense of calm and minimalism to the bathroom.
name: Electric Beer
designer: Einride Design
collaborator: Carlsberg Sweden
What happens when electric freight meets brewing tradition? Electric Beer is the unexpected fusion of cutting-edge freight technology and iconic brews. The bold collaboration between tech trailblazer Einride and brewing icon Carlsberg Sweden celebrates a beer that is delivered entirely by electric trucks and designed to tell its own story. This alcohol-free beer turns sustainable transport into an experience. From hops to hand, it’s a taste of the future.
name: Heritage
original design: Marian Sigmund (c.1958)
creative direction & redesign: Maja Ganszyniec Studio
manufacturer: Paged Furniture
At Salone del Mobile 2025, Paged Furniture presents Heritage, a new collection that brings a 1950s Polish design back into the contemporary conversation. Under the creative direction of designer Maja Ganszyniec, the project uncovers and reinterprets the nearly forgotten B-621 chair, originally created by modernist designer Marian Sigmund. Sigmund, a key figure in post-war Polish architecture and furniture design, worked with Paged in the late 1950s on a series of bentwood chairs destined for Western Europe and Scandinavia. Though widely distributed abroad, many of his designs faded from public memory in Poland. Now, after six decades, Paged and Ganszyniec have revived one of his most refined forms.
name: Fuse
designer: Seung Keun Kim, Wenqi Zheng
Inspired by the evolving needs of health-conscious, on-the-go users, designer Seung Keun Kim set out to reimagine the personal blender as an elegant and intuitive companion for daily rituals. The result is Fuse, a compact, sculptural blender that transforms the preparation of smoothies and health drinks into a seamless, sensory experience of thoughtful design and interaction. With intuitive swipe controls, a magnetic drive system, and a rhythmic form language, it transforms a daily routine into a quiet ritual.
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