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This nostalgic Volkswagen-inspired camper mixes the old + new for the ultimate camping experience!

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In many ways, the VW Bus ushered in the era of the mobile van camper. Inspired by its open interior, iconic pastel color schemes, and warm, rounded exterior‒designers have modeled their own camper vans after the VW Bus for as long as it’s been around to take us on trips. Taking the design language of Volkswagen and applying it to his own interpretation of the camper, design studio Ozan Kayicki visualized the Volkswagen Joy Camper.

Ozan Kayicki designed the Joy Camper to be the quintessential camping vehicle for all future trips. Rendered in either pine green or multi-patterned collage, Joy Camper is like the cube-shaped cousin to the VW Bus. The camper’s glossy painted exterior opens up to the van’s mostly wooden interior– a nod to the 1960s era of infinite wood panels. Each internal component is lined in wood, except for the driver’s seat, sink, and countertop, offering warmth in compliment to the van’s cool exterior. In addition to the van’s expansive, glazing windows that line the sides of Joy Camper, a pop-top roof raises the van’s headroom and allows additional sunlight to pour in through the roof’s skylights. Then, an additional extension protrudes from one side of the cabin, appearing as washing or changing areas for guests.

Camping is once more surging in popularity, which means a camper is on everyone’s Christmas list. Echoing back to the camper’s heyday in the 1960s, Ozan Kayicki’s Joy Camper takes cues from the classic VW Bus to visualize their own camper van, a simple, refined, and more mature cousin to its 1960s inspired predecessor– it’s never been this cool to be square.

Designer: Ozan Kayicki

A multi-patterned collage exterior links Ozan Kayicki’s Joy Camper to the exuberant and eclectic design schemes of the ’60s.

Opting for a more rectangular build, Ozan Kayicki’s Joy Camper steps away from the rounded edges of the VW Bus.

Inside, wooden components nod to the iconic wood panels made famous during the 1960s.

A pop-top roof extends Joy Camper’s headroom and brings in more natural sunlight during the day.

This mountain home looks like a Tetris game come alive to become a treacherous escapist’s dream home!

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Known for his use of dramatic angles and treacherous locations, architectural designer Milad Eshtiyaghi visualizes bold and escapist hideaways in the style of cliffside mansions and idyllic lakeside cabins. Hoisted atop a cliffside’s edge, just above a waterfall, Eshtiyaghi’s isometric Mountain House takes on glass facades and a geometric structure to close in on his juxtaposed vision of a serene, yet daring cliffside getaway.

Devoted to sustainable design, Eshtiyaghi allows the pre-existing, surrounding environment to define the parameters and overall structure of his buildings. Punctuating the in-between spaces of each level are courtyard spaces that emerged as a result of Eshtiyaghi’s choice to slink the home’s layout between the land’s pre-existing trees. The layout of Mountain House is reminiscent of snake video games, where the player controls the movement of a line that grows in length and forms more complex cubic patterns as the game plays on. Stationed in Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada, Mountain House comprises three intersecting levels that turn the getaway into a multigenerational home. Stacked vertically on top of one another, each level consists of delineated cubes in the design of exposed glass elevator shafts.

The home’s interiors find dim elegance and a smoky ambiance that strikes an eerily similar chord to that of old Hollywood glamour, with long, shadowed corridors, and grandiose, low-hanging light fixtures. Wrapped up entirely with a glass facade, which is interrupted symmetrically with squared-off window panes, Mountain House merges its misty and cozy interiors with exposed walkways and open-air terraces to bring in as much natural sunlight during the day as its perched location atop a Canadian summit can allow.

Designer: Milad Eshtiyaghi

Stationed cliffside in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mountain House forms the ideal home for adventure seekers.

Stationed on a cliff’s edge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mountain House comprises three levels with entirely glass facades formed from delineated glazed window panes.





With a smoky ambiance, Mountain House embodies a hazy escapist getaway.

The isometric Mountain House forms a dramatic geometric structure in the style of Eshtiyaghi.





Perched atop a cliffside, the cubic Mountain House is placed in a treacherous location, apt for Eshtiyaghi’s style.

Open-air terraces blend the outdoors with Mountain House’s smoky interiors.

The geometric labyrinth of Mountain House is reminiscent of snake video games from the ’80s.

Sunlight pours into the glass facades of Mountain House, drenching the interiors with warm, natural light.

A blend of wooden accents and metallic structures gives Mountain House a sophisticated look in an otherwise rugged location.

Long, dimly lit corridors and low-hanging light fixtures allude to the Mountain House’s subliminal ode to old Hollywood glamour.

Luxurious game and sports rooms fill the rooms located in the upper level of Mountain House.

The cozy air of Mountain House’s inside spaces juxtaposes its harsh, windswept outdoors.

During the day, the dim, smoky interiors open up to sunlight-drenched interiors that fill the open-air rooms of Mountain House.

A glass-bottom pool sits on Mountain House’s lower level, punctuating the home with one last daredevil rendezvous.

This microwave’s swinging front door carries your MasterChef-worthy meal, hot and ready to eat!

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The ‘50s were home to some of the most innovative pieces of design and technology for their time. Invented just before the boom era in 1946, microwaves have changed a great deal since their debut, and still, designers remain inspired by the microwave oven’s convenience and timelessness. Bringing his interpretation to the table, designer Keereem Lee designed Waiter, a 3D visualization of a microwave that features a swinging door with an attached glass plate so users don’t have to bend down to place their food inside.

Narrowly dubbed ‘America’s Golden Age,’ the ‘50s saw innovations like the transistor radio, hard disks, and the Barbie doll define an era. However, ushering in this impressive lineup of inventions was none other than the microwave. Lee’s microwave design, Waiter, takes the classic compact build of the traditional blocky microwave, rounds its edges, and revises the inside to enhance its usability. Microwaves are anything but inconvenient. Spurred to only up that convenience factor, Lee’s main door on Waiter opens up once its quick-release trigger is pushed and reveals an attached glass plate that swings out with the door. Conceptualized so that users wouldn’t have to bend down to place their food inside the microwave, Lee also outfitted the Waiter with a transparent hood so that users wouldn’t even have to bend down to check on their food’s progress.

Most of the operations on the Waiter are featured on the design’s top lid, where the main control panel to set the timer and function is located. Waiter’s heating methods are activated in the same fashion as traditional microwaves, users need only push the door open and set the timer. It’s Lee’s attention to details that sets his microwave apart from the rest. Moving the control panel’s and glass plate’s locations, Lee leans on this reconfiguration to help make the Waiter that much more efficient.

Designer: Keereem Lee

An attached glass plate allows users to place their dish into the microwave without bending their backs.

A clean design, the Waiter features minimal technological details, equipping its front facade and top lid with only the essential control panels.

Users need only push the front door’s quick-release trigger to open the door and place their food on its glass plate.

A transparent hood allows users to check on their food’s progress.

The minimal look of Waiter only adds to its ease of use.

The quick-release trigger on the Waiter swings the door open to reveal its glass plate.

A control panel uses an intuitive design to simplify the cooking process.

This Supersonic Turntable’s aesthetics are inspired by the current brutalist architecture trend!

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Turntables have a rep for being vintage design pieces. While vintage record players can be used for playing old and new music alike, turntables are also essential modern audio devices for DJs and producers. Today, some turntables have taken on a more raw, industrial look to meet their contemporary use. Rod Romantsov, a 3D artist and visual designer based in San Francisco, recently visualized his own turntable called Supersonic that fits right into today’s industrial style and one that’s sleek as steel.

Supersonic is a fully exposed record player with a flat width and rounded side edges that give it a pronounced modern look. Supersonic also comes with an integrated rubber platter to spin the record and keep it spinning even as DJs manipulate the records on top of slipmats. Coated in stainless steel, the record player’s control panel features all that one would expect with a traditional turntable, including an anti-skating dial, speed switch, and power knob. With a stainless steel coating, Romantsov’s Supersonic turntable is corrosion-resistant, maintaining a slick finish even after continued use. Mostly every detail of Supersonic’s frame and accessories is constructed from stainless steel, including the stylus, cartridge, and fuller body, making it not only industrial in style but in strength and durability too.

DJs can use turntables to manipulate the music playing from records, controlling the turntable’s stylus to jump to specific points throughout a record. While casual listeners can operate turntables with little to no tear and wear, DJs and producers need a turntable that can take a lot of action and fingerwork. Industrial turntables like Rod Romantsov’s Supersonic turntable fit the bill for the contemporary audiophile and music makers alike, offering a refreshing air of durability in the turntable’s age of aesthetic design.

Designer: Rod Romantsov

Supersonic appears lightweight and minimal by design, but its industrial build equips it with durability to maintain quality.

Supersonic’s control panel features a power knob, speed control, and an anti-skating dial.

Everything from its body to its needle looks constructed from stainless steel.

An integrated platter keeps the record spinning for DJs.

Supersonic’s needle allows for precise listening and record jumping.

This cliffside cabin is supported by five suspension cables for a daunting jungle retreat!

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3D visualizer and architectural designer Thilina Liyanage conceptualizes remote, escapist hideouts and villas stationed in rugged rainforests and off the sides of jungle cliffs. Most of Liyanage’s designs stand out for their intricate interweaving of natural materials like what appears to be bamboo and wooden beams to create life-size models of wildlife and other forms of nature. His most recent architectural conceptualization takes a new approach and envisions a cabin perched above steep cliff sides, one that is entirely made from glazed glass facades and metal cladding.

Liyanage’s Cliff Cabin, as he calls it, suspends from the side of a mountain, hovering in midair. In his 3D conceptualization, Liyanage visualizes Cliff Cabin locked in place above four support beams that are bored into the cliffside to create a secure enough foundation for Cliff Cabin to rest atop. In addition to its bottom support, four high-tensile cables are attached to the cabin’s roof and balance the cabin by drawing it back away from the cliff’s edge, evenly distributing the weight of the cabin. Globular spheres lock the cables in place and add an elegant and tidy touch to the cabin as a whole.

Cliff Cabin takes on a primarily triangular shape, with right triangle glass facades sharpening the cabin’s sides and protruding out to their center of convergence. Cliff Cabin is more modern in design compared to Liyanage’s previous architectural visualizations, lending room for the exterior to mainly consist of metal cladding and glass windows. Inside, however, Liyanage’s Cliff Cabin seems to be entirely made up of natural wood elements, creating a cozy ambiance in contrast to the durable and daunting exterior. The cabin’s natural wood accents and metal overhead awnings seem to merge on the cabin’s deck, where a metal roof protects the cabin’s guests from bad weather and wooden panels line the floor below.

Designer: Thilina Liyanage

Suspended above a mountainside with support from high-tensile cables and steel beams, Cliff Cabin is as eye-catching as it is daunting.

Clif Cabin perches from the cliffside like a life-size bird’s nest.

Taking on a triangular shape, Cliff Cabin is more modern by design with glass window skylights and metal roof cladding.

Cliff Cabin’s weight is evenly distributed across the four metal beams that work as the structure’s foundation as well as the four high-tensile suspension cables.

While the exterior of Cliff Cabin is entirely constructed from glass and metal, the cabin’s interior finds warmth in natural wood elements.

This daredevil hideaway cabin defies gravity using five support cables for the ultimate thrilling experience!

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Milad Eshtiyaghi, an international architect based in Iran, designs escapist dream homes stationed in faraway cliffs and shorelines to evoke feelings of wanderlust and nostalgia. Committed to sustainability and green design, Eshtiyaghi’s buildings typically gleam with a minimalist polish, offering a striking contrast to the epic environments where Eshtiyaghi chooses to place them. Milad Eshtiyaghi aimed to achieve this same air of duality with Suspended House, a reinterpreted A-frame cabin that hangs off a California cliffside with the help of five high-tensile support cables.

Peeking out from the cliffs of Mendocino, California, Suspended House hovers in midair. In his rendering, Eshtiyaghi conceptualized Suspended House after choosing its cliffside location. To ensure that the structure would hold tight and remain in place, Eshtiyaghi looked to using five high-tensile support cables and a large foundation mast. The large mast works by balancing the forces of gravity and gently ‘tugging’ the A-frame cabin towards the mast for it to remain upright. In addition to the large foundation mast, five high-tensile support cables securely lodge the cabin in place from all sides.

The land-locked parts of Suspended House remain stable in place and offer a cozy respite from the more daunting facades of Suspended House. For the most part, the entire cabin remains on solid ground except for a hanging living area, left dangling above the Pacific. The living area’s glass floor and furniture only work to steepen this daredevil’s hideaway and turn it into an oasis for those braver than the faint of heart. Sitting near the precipice of the glass floor, hanging above the ocean’s floor, guests can take it one step further and play on the cabin’s swing to soar over the Pacific.

Designer: Milad Eshtiyaghi





In his rendering, with support from a large foundation mast and five high-tensile support cables, Eshtiyaghi’s Suspended House hangs on the cliffs of Mendocino, California.

The large foundation mast works by offsetting the structure’s center of gravity.





The front of Suspended House features jet-black finishes and dark entryways, while the suspended addition in the rear features entirely transparent floors and furniture.





Perched at the top of a cliffside, Suspended House evokes feelings of nostalgia and wanderlust.

Inside, richly textured wooden accents create a cozy air for Suspended House, offering a place of respite from the more daring sides of the house.

Come dusk, Suspended House emanates warmth from the lantern-like lights throughout the home.

This triple A-frame cottage uses a cantilevered design to reinterpret traditional cabin architecture!

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Nothing has felt more tempting this past year than scrolling through the many cabin designs that have kept our timelines busy. We’ve seen modular and mobile cabins, sustainable ones, cabin-inspired houseboats, even the traditional A-frame cabin has seeped into our daydreams. Reinterpreting the A-frame cabin through a contemporary perspective, designer Amin Moazzen conceptualized Cabin of Hope, a 3D visualization of a cantilevered triplex cabin designed to function as an escape from today’s world.

Moazzen’s Cabin of Hope fuses indoor and outdoor living with its main cantilevered A-frame structure that opens up to a veranda overlooking the nearby lake. Shaped like a zig-zag, all three A-frame structures that give rise to the Cabin of Hope are connected at the cabin’s wooden deck base and interwoven outdoor walkway. To achieve an air of contemporary design, Moazzen blended the traditional aspects of cabins like wooden foundations and exposed beams with more modern edges like LED window frames and optic white finishes that cool down the wood’s smokier accents. Dark wooden beams line the angled walls inside each A-frame cabin, further showcasing Moazzen’s commitment to bridging classic cottage elements with notes of contemporary escapism.

While the warm interior lights and bright exterior LEDs make Cabin of Hope shine and morph it into a lantern in the dark, the cabin triplex’s showcase is the cantilevered A-frame that protrudes out over the lake. Joined together by the cabin’s surrounding deck, the separate bi-level A-frame structures function as their own individual wings, the largest one pulling away and towards the lake’s horizon.

Designer: Amin Moazzen

Cabin of Hope’s cantilevered triplex structure reinterprets the traditional cabin through a contemporary perspective.

One of the three A-frame structures that give rise to Cabin of Hope overlooks the lake and functions as a veranda for guests.

The other side of Cabin of Hope reveals all three A-frame cabins at ground level, situated atop the base wooden deck.

An aerial view shows the cabin’s top floor deck that works to connect all three wings of Cabin of Hope.

From above, Cabin of Hope appears as three separate long homes, but they’re all connected by an outdoor walkway.

Wooden beams enhance the cabin’s traditional aesthetic by cooling down their rustic appearance with optic white side paneling.

In collaboration with Adobe, this watch design uses CGI to highlight the textures of crystals and landscapes!

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The texture of wearable designs, like watches, has the ability to grab our attention before we even fully understand the designing the first place. I know I’m not the only one who can’t help but reach out to run my fingers over all the different fabrics as I pass them by in department stores. The texture of a product’s exterior is what tells our brain whether or not we’re interested in learning more about it. In collaboration with Adobe, Jean-François Bozec sourced inspiration from surfaces of raw materials like obsidian crystals, natural aluminum, and upturned leather, when designing the Obsidian Watch, his latest 3D visual concept.

The digital interface on the Obsidian Watch is raised with a gradual pitch that gives it an air of reserved elegance to match the subtly intricate textures of its watch bands. The iridescent nature of red obsidian is presented in Bozec’s design through the dual-toned case. The watch’s case creates shadowed layers and was inspired by the matte textures of aluminum and iron. When strapped onto a vermillion red, plush leather watchband – the shadows remind those who wear the watch of its obsidian origin. In addition to crystals, Bozec felt equally as inspired by snow-covered mountains and other natural elements like stones. In order to evoke the image of snow, Bozec turned to CGI to develop a fabric for the watchband that mimicked the tightly-packed nature of snow, as he explains “CGI was the ideal way to materialize the intimate emotions born of the rawness of nature. The irregularities of the geological formations inspired the creation of the leather band. In the same manner, the fabric loop band stemmed from the lightness and softness invoked by the snowy environments.”

In addition to texture, through his 3D concept, Bozec also explored technology’s role in influencing how people think and feel. Bozec goes further to say, “My goal was to transpose feelings provided by [a] substance…on a smart and non-intrusive wearable device.” With the current influx of smart technology, too often a product’s textural design is sacrificed for the sake of preserving the user’s technological experience – Bozec set out to create a compromise. While Bozec considers the Obsidian Watch project more of an “emotional visual experiment,” than a full-fledged product design concept, the truth is that it could get away with being both.

Designer: Jean-François Bozec

These lightning-fast SSDs were inspired by the sandy dunes of Jakku for the sci-fi fan in all of us!

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The first time I saw Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, the year was 2005 and I was in fourth grade. Since then, the world of tech design has shifted, but Star Wars and other sci-fi realms have maintained the gaze of the tech world, inspiring some of the quirkiest and most clever tech accessories known today. While getting inspired by science-fiction is no rare encounter, it’s so prevalent because, if executed well, science-fiction is one of the few aesthetic categories that manage to reel people into entirely different and unfamiliar worlds.

Sourcing his inspiration from sci-fi movies like Star Wars, Alex Casabò conceptualized in 3D, his own interpretation of what he calls, a “really fast sci-fi SSD,” bringing a traditional SSD and taking it to new heights, perhaps even new galaxies, with a distinct, rugged exterior and lightning-fast drive. Casabò’s SSD concept looks lived-in like it’s headed straight for Crait. SSDs, which rely on flash memory to keep things moving and storage processed, are known for their low read-access time and fast throughputs. Conversely, other storage devices like hard disks store a computer’s memory on mechanical hard drives and generally move a lot slower.

Opting for a more futuristic, cyberpunk aesthetic for his digital SSD conceptualization makes sense since faster speeds indicate technological advancements and go hand in hand with a future world that might look eerily familiar to sci-fi films we grew up watching. His SSD concepts come in three forms, 16 TB, 32 TB, or 64 TB, and come in orange, green, or blue. The translucent, rough-and-tough exterior for his SSD concepts resemble the technological hardware used by the dissidents who form the Rebel Alliance. The SSD’s interior components, the flash controller and flash memory chips, are also visible from the outside, which gives Casabò’s design a distinct look that only brings us closer to the sands of Jakku.

Designer: Alex Casabò

3D architectural renders versus real designs that will inspire you

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3D rendered designs are everywhere – right from movies to real-life settings, we have reached a time where it is almost impossible to distinguish between render and the real image of a place. Take for example the image here – on asking, most people prefer the image on the right, which may surprise you to know is a 3D render and not an actual image of the Living Wall, present in a home in Belgravia created by Biotecture.

What sorcery is this you ask? Meet Adrian Lobo, popular on Instagram by his company handle @a3render, a 3D visualization powerhouse working from Mexico whose skills have given a new life to this private garden. Using a mix of SketchUp, V-Ray, Revit, 3ds Max and more, the team specializes in creating realistic 3D visualizations of any given space. Scroll through to see more work by this dynamic team that will leave you in awe!

Below is the real architectural design – The Living Wall created for a private garden in Belgravia by Biotecture.

And this is the 3D render visualization by A3 Render.

The render captures the beautiful pebbles laid at the base with a yellow light that gives a warm, inviting contrast with white light streaming in from those sliding windows. An added spotlight from the top illuminates the entire structure.

Impressed? So are we. Here is some more great work by the A3 Render’s team for you to ogle and get inspired by!

Project Tulum House interior focuses on muted interiors with metallic accents to give the room a highlight.

Project Houston Maeva utilizes a splash of neon pink to create a focal point in the room.

The designer visualizes a chair and its fabric with great attention to detail that wows us!

Tons of natural lighting lights up the render of this Project named Restaurant Hacienda Centro.

Our friendly neighborhood Starbucks could surely use this interesting, inviting piece to entice us along with that heady aroma of fresh coffee!

The team at A3 Render sure loves adding a splash of retro with neon lighting and we love it too as seen in their Project Chroma.

The Project Colorado Springs showcases a raw concrete structure nestled between the surrounding hills. I’m sure this house will have some spectacular views of the mountain and the valley.

Marble, in both dark and light shades dominate the Bocce Restaurant.

The Puebla’s Cabin is a perfect mix of modern and rustic getaway for those who want a break from the cityscapes.