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Rainy Cafe

Rain and cafe sounds for working, with fire, thunder and wind, and a focus timer.

How Caffeine Can Cramp Creativity

Caffeine prevents our focus from becoming too diffuse; it instead hones our attention in a hyper-vigilant fashion.

Peet’s Coffee x SPIN Sessions: Where Coffee Culture Meets Music Culture - SPIN

Music-loving coffee drinkers have long known the importance of shifting a sluggish moment into a second wind. There’s always been a need for

What coffee taught me about building products?

You have probably been asked about your hobbies at some point. I never had a good answer to that question. Tbh, I still don't. A few years ago, while reading Designing Your Life, I realised something slightly uncomfortable. I did very little just for joy. Most things I spent

Unfair trade

Coursing through the veins of the modern world and the modern subject alike, coffee is the spirit of exploitation in brewed form.

Art of Noise

A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.

WORK LOUDER© - Codex Micro

Work Louder make products for people, inspired by a version of themselves sometimes forgotten - playful, versatile, and above all else, creative.

Hologram

Elevate your coffee experience to a new dimension. Hologram is an extraordinary medium-roast blend that showcases the finest coffees from around the world. Tantalizing notes of ripe fruit and chocolate create a multidimensional flavor experience that’s as complex as it is approachable.

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how sound works.

An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways

There's an art and science to making one sound seem more urgent than another.

Custom Soundscapes for Focus, Relaxation & Sleep | myNoise ®

Adjustable soundscapes that adapt to your space and your needs. Nature sounds, ambient music, and noise textures in a seamless, uninterrupted flow.

Static! Designing for energy Awareness

From the boost of the first cup of coffee in the morning to the glow of a nightlight that keeps a child company after dark, much of our contemporary lifestyles is powered by electricity. Today, however, the economic and environmental costs of energy require us to think again. While recognizing the complex social functions and cultural forms of electricity in everyday life, the current challenge for design is to change practices and patterns of (over)consumption. Static! explores design as a basis for increasing awareness of energy. Familiar furnishings and products have been reinterpreted to materialize electricity, to make it more visible and tangible for people. The resulting series of conceptual design examples express the poetics – and politics – of everyday electricity consumption. A design research project at the Interactive Institute funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, Static! has proved to be a pioneer in opening a current and critical research area at the intersection of design, energy and information technology. This book presents the Static! design examples and perspectives on issues in (sustainable) design today. Grounded in passion and humor, as well as rigor and research, the book asks designers and consumers – that is, all of us – to rethink the form, and future, of electricity in the world around us. Editor: Ramia Mazé. Authors: Christina Öhman, Sara Backlund, Johan Redström, Ramia Mazé, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Sara Routarinne.

Natalia Emanuel on Twitter / X

Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more Starbucks in an area --> 3-4% more inventions. People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help see an issue from another perspective. These conversations lead to breakthroughs and inventions.… pic.twitter.com/3LwKtrgG5E— Natalia Emanuel (@NataliaHEmanuel) October 9, 2026

Co-Design

Co-design means the people affected by a design hold power over it — from the beginning, not at the end. Co-design isn't consultation at the testing stage. It is power-sharing at the architecture stage.