Formlabs Fuse X1

Website: https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/fuse-x1/
Announcement: https://formlabs.com/global/company/press/formlabs-unveils-fuse-x1-large-format-sls-3d-printing/

Maker: Formlabs
Released: June 2026
Manufacturing process: Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
Build volume: 330 × 330 × 565 mm
Materials: Nylon 12 Powder
Price: Starting at $84,999

Fine Mycelium

Fine Mycelium is MycoWorks’ process for growing a leather substitute with mycelium.

Website: https://www.mycoworks.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mycoworks/
X: https://x.com/MycoWorksInc

Maker: MycoWorks
Materials: Reishi (Pebble, Mycelial, Doux finishes), Sylvania (Hermès exclusive)
Composition: 100% mycelium that’s grown on recycled sawdust, bran, and water
Process: Grown in trays, then chrome-free tanned and finished by European partners
Properties: Fine Mycelium has a tensile strength of 14–18 MPa and withstands 25,600 abrasion cycles, and 20,000 flexing cycles.
Applications: Hermès Victoria bag (2021), Nick Fouquet hats (2022), Cadillac SOLLEI concept interior (2024), Ligne Roset Kobold sofa (2025)
Made in: Union, South Carolina, USA
Availability: Inquiries and Wholesale

Raven from Moritz Rietschel, Philipp Hölzenbein, and Maximilian Rietschel

An agent inside Rhino 8 that turns a text prompt or a reference image into native, editable Grasshopper definitions.

Website: https://raven.build/
X: https://x.com/ravencad
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravencad/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RavenCAD
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nXbkvwXwBh

Formats: 3DM, STEP, IGES, DWG, DXF, OBJ, STL, 3MF, SVG, PDF
Kernel: openNURBS (Grasshopper definitions based)

Moritz, Philipp, and Maximilian are the co-founders of Raven.

Charles O. Job

Credentials: Diploma in architecture and master’s in urban design, Oxford Brookes University; professor of architectural design theory, Bern University of Applied Sciences (2008–2026); former research associate, ETH Zurich; RIBA
From: Lagos, Nigeria
Based: Zurich, Switzerland
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture, Lighting, Architecture

Website: https://www.charlesjob.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charles.o.job/

SKETCH armchair (prototype, 2020)

Flip Desk for Vij5, 2022

pablo shelving unit for Tossa

Flex Ply Pavilion, Design Preis Schweiz nominee, 2013

Jonathan Olivares

Credentials: Pratt Institute, industrial design; SVP of Design and Creative Director, Knoll
From: Boston, Massachusetts
Based: Los Angeles, California
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

Website: https://www.jonathanolivares.com
Knoll: https://www.knoll.com/designer/Jonathan-Olivares
Skateboard (Phaidon): https://www.phaidon.com/en-us/products/skateboard

Olivares Aluminum Chair

Aluminum Bench

Skateboard Exhibition at Design Museum London

TUM Tadpole

Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/thuerey-group/Tadpole
GitHub: https://github.com/tum-pbs/Tadpole
Website: https://ge.in.tum.de/2026/05/18/tadpole-flexible-scientific-foundation-models/
Technical report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15284

Developer: Thuerey Group, Technical University of Munich
Released: May 2026
Variants: S, B, L; only B weights released
Parameters: S: 8.8M / B: 38.1M / L: 152.1M
Resolution: pre-trained at 64, 128, 256 and 384 cubed, evaluated to 1024 cubed
Architecture: 3D PDE autoencoder pre-trained on single-channel 64x64x64 crops, P3D hybrid backbone with convolutional stages and a transformer bottleneck, adversarial reconstruction loss; latent compression 16 (S) / 8 (B) / 4 (L); Tadpole-DFT adds LoRA, a latent dynamics sub-network, and zero-initialized skip connections for rollout
License: Apache 2.0
Modalities: 3D PDE fields in, 3D PDE fields out
Runs on: Autoencoding: Laptop / Dynamics: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only
Formats: safetensors, separate encoder and decoder
On disk: B: 60.4MB encoder, 92.6MB decoder

Isay Weinfeld

Credentials: School of Architecture, Mackenzie University (São Paulo)
From: São Paulo, Brazil
Based: São Paulo, Brazil
Discipline: Architecture, Furniture

Isay Weinfeld: https://www.isayweinfeld.com/

Sideboard (2006)

Lounge Chair (2006)

Simo Heikkilä

Credentials: Interior architect, SIO (Finnish Association of interior architects); Diploma in Interior Architecture, Ateneum School of Applied Arts (1967); former professor of furniture design at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki
From: Jyväskylä, Finland
Based: Korpilahti, Finland
Discipline: Furniture, Architecture

Website: https://www.periferiadesign.fi/simo-heikkila/
Periferia Design: https://www.periferiadesign.fi/

May, chair for Nikari, 2013

Adam, chair together with Yrjö Wiherheimo, 1997

vcad

Type: b-Rep based
Website: https://vcad.io
GitHub: https://github.com/ecto/vcad

Created: 2026
License: Apache 2.0
Language: Rust
Formats: STEP, STL, GLB, DXF
Bindings: WASM

Megathread covering Central American object makers covering architecture, industrial design, and product design. Central America includes: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Mexico

Format should follow

Name

Credentials:
From:
Based:
Discipline:

Website:
Instagram:
X:
Other Links:

At least 1 image

Toshiya Hayashi

Credentials: Hitotsubashi University
From: Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Based: Tokyo, Japan
Discipline: Industrial Design, Furniture

we+: https://weplus.jp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toshiya__hayashi/

Unseen Objects / Overflow

In-Between Matter

Paolo Rizzatto

Credentials: Laurea in Architecture, Politecnico di Milano (1965)
From: Milan, Italy
Based: Milan, Italy
Discipline: Lighting, Industrial Design

Website: https://paolorizzatto.it
Luceplan: https://www.luceplan.com

Titania

Lola

Germane Barnes is an American architect and director of Studio Barnes by way of the West Side of Chicago, IL and based in Miami, FL.

Studio Barnes has been featured in international venues and publications most notably, The Art Institute of Chicago, Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art NY, SF MoMA, MAS Context, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, Metropolis Magazine, Domus, LACMA, Denver Art Museum and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.

Website: germanebarnes.com
Instagram: @germane.barnes
University profile: University of Miami
Vimeo search: Germane Barnes lectures
YouTube search: Germane Barnes videos

Joy Riding in Columbus, IL USA

Griot in Venice, Italy

A Spectrum of Blackness in Chicago, IL USA

Protolabs

Protolabs is a digital manufacturing service for custom prototypes and low-volume production parts.

Formats: STEP, IGES, SolidWorks (.sldprt), STL (3D printing)
Materials: Metals, plastics, elastomers, liquid silicone rubber
Processes: CNC machining (milling, turning), injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, 3D printing (SLA, SLS, MJF, DMLS, PolyJet, HPS)
Lead time: As fast as 1 day

Website: https://www.protolabs.com/

Era

Website: era.world
Founders: Liz Durman, Alex Ollman, and Megan Gole

AI gadget platform. Started with a AI enabled gadget dev kit for designers allowing them to add intelligence to everyday objects. Called it Primavera: https://primavera.era.world/

Bonsai 1 Bit

Announcement: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-8b
Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit

Bonsai 1 Bit is a 1 bit language model that comes in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B parameter sizes. The 8B model is 1/16 the size of comparable 16 bit 8B open models with similar performance. At 1.15gb, this model can fit on many kinds of devices with 4-5x better energy efficiency

Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-Canadian industrial designer, born in Cairo in 1960, raised in Canada, and based in New York since 1993. He is one of the most prolific designers of his generation, with over 4,000 designs in production, from the Garbo waste can for Umbra and the bobble water bottle to furniture, lighting, and hotel interiors. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and SFMOMA.

Website: karimrashid.com
Instagram: @karim_rashid_official
X/Twitter: @karim_design
Facebook: karimrashiddesign