June has been a remarkable month for LEGO, and not just in the way it usually is. The sets, concepts, and collaborations landing right now feel less like product launches and more like cultural moments. Whether it’s a musician’s legacy cast in brick or a charcuterie spread that somehow makes you hungry, the breadth of creative ambition on display right now is hard to ignore. This is LEGO at its most wide-ranging and most interesting.
Every once in a while, a design comes along that makes you wonder why it didn’t exist sooner. Contour, by Budapest-based industrial designer Adam Miklosi, is exactly that kind of object. It’s a corkboard for your monitor, and no, I didn’t realize I needed one until I saw it.
A table is arguably the most taken-for-granted object in design. Four legs, a flat surface, repeat. We have been manufacturing and sitting around tables in essentially the same configuration for centuries, and most of us have never once stopped to ask whether the table itself is actually working for us. Fengfan Yang clearly did.
