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Review: One Year With the Tiami Mattress
By Adam Szafranski
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My Girlfriend Loves Design, So I Got Her an Arc Alarm Clock from NanuElectrics

Useful can be beautiful. The best gifts are.

By Johnny Motley
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The Coolest Home Gifts for 2025

For the home, for the win.

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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers
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The Essential Tools for Red Wine Lovers

By Christopher Osburn
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C.H. Hanson Power Drill Pencil Sharpener

Measure twice, cut once. It's been ingrained in our psyche since we were five years old and dad showed us that hammers were for things other than hitting our little brother. Unfortunately, math has never really been our strong suit and using a tape measure is hard, so we always…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Bright Ideas: Incredibly Unique Lighting

Lighting doesn't have to be limited to recessed cans, hand me down table lamps or fluorescent ceiling monstrosities. Your home is your castle, not some boring day job where you're punching a clock, so snap out of the idea that your lighting is just supposed to make everything else look…

By Tim Jacobsen
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Bill Brown Pixel Perfect Camera Decals

For the last few decades designers have spent plenty of man-hours erasing the pixelated memories of the games we played on Atari and Intellivision.  This is a good thing; we’d rather play a game of Madden where you can make out the area code written on some running back’s eye-black…

By Mike Newman
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Turtle Pens

Handwriting things is more personal, more creative and frequently more convenient than typing. If you didn't have a pen, how would you doodle during meetings you're forced to attend but have no reason to be at? How would you write thank you notes to your gramma for that $20 she…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Izola Soap Dishes

When was the last time you "decorated" a bathroom? College? First apartment? The simple truth is that we could probably survive with just a towel bar and a shower curtain, and those are for totally utilitarian reasons. Maybe you spice it up a little by picking up something other than…

By Cooper Fleishman
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