DesignWanted
Exploring design trends and innovations, while connecting the design community on a global scale. But we might have missed your big story!
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, insights, 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.
04/10/2026
Four articulated computer arms replace the legs of this antique coffee table, giving it the stance of a mechanical dog and exploring a new way to reuse old furniture.
Let the dog out by Alexandre Veillon
📸 Raphael flipo
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DesignWanted is a Milan-based design magazine exploring product trends, innovations, and connecting the design community on a global scale.
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This prototype explores how a fan can run without electricity, using a falling weight to turn the blades through a belt before being pulled back up.
On Air by Eloi Goulhot
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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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04/10/2026
When Barbie melts down: gomi’s Childhood Memories collection and the limits of toy circularity 👉 https://designwanted.com/barbie-x-gomi-audio-equipment-sustainable-recycle/
The Barbie x gomi collaboration is turning waste into audio equipment, commenting on sustainability, designing for children, and consumer nostalgia.
✍️ Anna Lazzaron
03/10/2026
Jangir Maddadi brings classical architecture to the washbasin with Hellas
👉 https://designwanted.com/hellas-washbasin-jangir-maddadi-ceramica-flaminia/
For his first collaboration with Ceramica Flaminia, Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau gives a circular ceramic basin an architectural exterior. Presented at Cersaie 2026, Hellas explores how relief, proportion and colour can give an everyday bathroom object a distinct presence.
03/10/2026
Cast in aluminium with irregular surfaces, these desk objects organize frequently used items by keeping them visible on a series of raised and tilted planes.
POLEN by Moomin Kang & Jeongbeen Chu
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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
03/10/2026
This aluminium coat rack opens like a scissor gate, expanding from 250 to 800 millimetres to make room for more garments.
Unexpected Guest by Persia Duncan
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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
02/10/2026
Rocket x Audi: if a sports car became a coffee machine
👉 https://designwanted.com/rocket-x-audi-espresso-v12-design-coffee-machine
How Rocket Espresso, Valerio Cometti+V12 Design , and Audi translated the design language of the iconic TT model into a hand-built coffee machine.
✍️ Anna Lazzaron
02/10/2026
Meet the jury: Raffaella Mangiarotti
Architect, designer and researcher at Politecnico di Milano — with 40+ international awards, including Red Dot, iF Design Award and German Design Award, and pieces in the permanent collection of MoMA. A career built on function over decoration, and objects that last.
Rigor meets intuition on this jury.
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IFB Award by DesignWanted – An Italian design award, built for the international design industry — judged by the people who shape the market. 4 categories. 2 tracks.
SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT 👉 https://ifbaward.designwanted.com/
02/10/2026
With an angled body for a caregiver’s grip, this pediatric mesh nebulizer separates into three parts for cleaning, including a frosted silicone face mask.
Meshkid by Passakorn Kulkliang / Studio NTD
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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
Moving from rough carving to finer cuts, this wooden armchair is shaped by hand with chisels and files that gradually define its seat, arms and joints.
Armchair by Mitch Polley Design
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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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