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A team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology has built a prototype electric car with a built-in toolbox and components that can be easily repaired or replaced without specialist knowledge. Read more

Imagine if The Criterion Channel and Netflix had a baby, but the baby only streamed public-domain classics — and it was completely FREE. That’s WikiFlix. It’s a clean, modern interface where you can scroll, search, and dive into a whole catalog of classic films, restored gems, silent-era legends, and old-school cinema history… all legally available …

“You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.” (via)

(Thank you John!)

For two decades, brand design obeyed a clean, clinical commandment: Thou shalt use sans‑serifs. Helvetica, then Gotham, then Proxima Nova and their countless descendants became the uniform of credibility. They whispered “modern,” “clear,” and “trustworthy.” But in a sea of identical minimalist wordmarks, a new question emerges: when everyone looks trustworthy, who actually looks memorable? This is …

Local studio Laboratorio de Arquitectura has completed a house with a design geared towards the use of custom concrete blocks in Querétaro, Mexico. Read more

London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an exposed timber and hempcrete structure that mimics the Grade I-listed building. Read more

Next in our review of 2025, we select 10 of the best videos produced by Dezeen this year, including  look inside postmodern landmark The Cosmic House and a sculptural exhibition transforming cardboard into icy, crystalline forms. Read more

Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for December include a multi-generational home in Vietnam and a minimalist house in Portugal with two recording studios. Read more

Creativity is often imagined as a lightning strike from the mind, but in practice, it is more like a carefully cultivated garden. The soil, the tools, and the daily tending determine what grows. For designers, this garden is the physical and digital environment in which we work. The monitor setup, the choice of a note …