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Exploring design trends and innovations, while connecting the design community on a global scale. But we might have missed your big story!
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Founded in 2015 by Patrick Abbattista, a Marketer in love with Design, DesignWanted magazine was born in the heart of the design world, Milan, Italy. Its primary mission is to empower the design community by equipping them with the resources and insights needed to facilitate conscious and sustainable advancements for the industry and humanity as a whole. We feed you daily with fresh content, insig

hts, projects and reports about everything happening across the world of design. We seek inspiring stories by rising stars or experienced professionals, read through their words in our interviews to be at the forefront of the industry. For this reason, we meet people where they are, we scout ideas where they’re born. We partner with the main design events worldwide to bring you the best of the local scenes. Observing trends and scouting the most remote corners of the web: this is our daily routine. We would love to see your new project, to hear your opinion and discover your new work. Jump on our submit page and show us what you got: our editorial team will check it out.

04/09/2026

6 future-forward design master’s programmes worth knowing
👉 https://designwanted.com/design-master-degrees-innovation-sustainability/

Rather than training designers to execute briefs more efficiently, these programmes ask what design could become, pushing students to think about the larger issues our discipline is embedded in. The six programmes listed here, spread from Barcelona to Singapore, represent different bets on what that future-facing design education should look like, through fabrication, materiality, political critique, business innovation, or sustainability science.

✍️ Anna Lazzaron

04/09/2026

Anchored by steel wires, this corrugated-paper clock tells time through a hidden magnet that shifts individual pleats to mark the hours and minutes.

Corrugated Paper Clock by Mauricio Romano

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03/09/2026

Structured around an extruded profile, this table adapts to busy public spaces through add-ons that hang from its edges for quick setup and reconfiguration.

Hang On by Fengfan Yang

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
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03/09/2026

Borrowing the folding mechanism of a tripod, this freestanding coat rack packs down into a narrow bundle for easy storage.

Tactical Coat Rack by Jamie Wolfond

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
🤓 Read our articles on designwanted.com
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03/09/2026

LTR1 brings housing, public space and nature into a vertical neighborhood
👉 https://designwanted.com/vertical-neighborhood-ltr1-carazo-arquitectura/

Designed by Carazo Arquitectura, LTR1 transforms a mixed-use development in Nuevo Cuscatlán, El Salvador, into a vertical neighborhood built around an existing forest, combining residences, public spaces, and climate-responsive strategies. A true green ecosystem, pulsating with life.

✍️ Annamaria Maffina

02/09/2026

A surfboard silhouette becomes an outdoor bench made from laminate containing 100% post-consumer recycled kraft paper, with two ropes linking its curved supports.

SurfInBench by Matteo Ragni Design Studio for Abet Laminati

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
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02/09/2026

This armchair is cut from a single sheet made from recycled wood waste, with its curved armrest nested tightly around the seat to minimise production offcuts.

The Unit Chair by Primary Structures

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
🤓 Read our articles on designwanted.com
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02/09/2026

A building that never ends: the role of affordances in architectural longevity
👉 https://designwanted.com/architectural-longevity-tommaso-viti-affordances

Tommaso Viti, a student at Politecnico di Milano, is proposing a different way of designing buildings for architectural reuse, centred on doing less instead of more.

✍️ Anna Lazzaron

01/09/2026

Part urban seat, part climbing structure for children, these modular Carrara marble blocks draw on quarry terrain, with arched openings that align to form small tunnels for play.

Marmifere by Studio Lievito

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
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01/09/2026

This seatless three-wheeler is ridden standing up and steered by leaning into turns, with a larger front wheel and longer wheelbase adding stability to the full-body ride.

Halfbike Pro by Halfbike

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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.

📬 Pitch your design: designwanted.com/submit-news
🤓 Read our articles on designwanted.com
©️ DM us if there are any missing credits

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