Beautiful design isn't good design, and even the prettiest gadgets can still suck. But all that said, there's something to be said for devices that are just easy on the eyes, and if they're good too, that's a bonus. What's the prettiest gadget you've got hanging around. Or, if you're living in a trash-heap or something, what's the prettiest one you aspire to someday own? Read More >>

The HTC One is very probably the most beautiful looking smartphone on the planet right now and very possibly the very best phone that money can buy you. How did it get that way? The detail is in its design. HTC's design team talks about the impressive process of turning a slab of metal into so much more, in this video here. Read More >>

If you like to be as physically involved with your cooking as possible, swap your electric spice grinder for this beautiful alternative that puts a unique spin — or shake — on the traditional mortar and pestle. Inside the Paprikum is a polished metal ball bearing that can turn any dried spice into a powder in no time. Read More >>

Do you need to know anything else about the Canterbury House once you find out it has a pool with an island in the middle? Nope. Sold! Read More >>

An expensive, ornate vase can be as much of a centerpiece as the flowers that are in it. These floating vases designed by the Japanese group oodesign take things in the opposite direction by making them look like water ripples. Read More >>

Jason Hackensworth is a balloon artist, but not the kind that wears oversized shoes and has been the villain in a 1990 horror movie. He's known for his balloon sculptures of biological forms and creatures, like this anemone-like sculpture, currently on display in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Read More >>

The The Rio Bonito House is set in a lush mountainous area in eastern Rio De Janeiro. It looks the the perfectly pleasant weekend getaway, but more than that, the design is notable because of the balance of both delicate and strong materials. Read More >>

The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While it might be functional, it's never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even packs in some extra features. Read More >>

Blue Planet Aquarium is the most aquarium-like aquarium you've ever seen. Cloaked in aluminium shingles that evoke fish scales, it's shaped like an ocean wave. Read More >>

Stop what you're doing right now and start scrolling through this Tumblr of colourful images of planes and bridges and mats and packaging and other everyday items morphing into each other. It's called I'm Google, an ongoing art project that finds beautiful patterns in otherwise benign and boring images Google Image search results. Read More >>

The Architectural Digest Show — running from Friday through Sunday in New York — will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy cooker hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the best things we saw. Read More >>

You know what trumps boring terraced houses after boring town houses after boring mansion blocks? A block of flats that looks like a giant iceberg, like this one in Aarhus, Denmark. Read More >>

Android has become an enormous success in part by appealing to a lot of people who don't prioritise aesthetics. It's no wonder it's been relatively ugly for half a decade. But finally, it's spawned a truly gorgeous object for everyone: the HTC One. Read More >>

This past January at SIHH, Omega announced that it had created the world's first anti-magnetic watch movement that's resistant to magnetic fields up to 15,000 Gauss. Previously both Rolex and IWC were the only other watch manufacturers with anti-magnetic time pieces. But Omega's new Seamaster Aqua Terra (calibre 8508) is 15x more resistant than either one with a movement that's mostly made up of non-ferrous metals, as opposed to encasing the movement in an iron cage. Read More >>

With an endless supply of streaming media at our fingertips, who in their right mind would spend money on a radio these days? That's probably the same question Lexon's designers were asking themselves, just before they came up with the stunning design for the company's Flow FM radio. Read More >>