Yanko Design - Form Beyond Function

An(Tea)dote!

Posted: 13 Dec 2016 12:25 PM PST

Tea is the world’s number 1 beverage. Even with the advancements that coffee may have made in the past century, people still love them brewed leaves. They say tea has healing properties too, with the ability to increase life expectancy and do a marvelous job of detoxifying your body. Organ teas do just that, but act as a visual guide of sorts to tell you what wonders your tea is doing for you. These adorable little teabags come shaped as the vital organs they help protect, so you set a weekly regimen and nourish your organs with the magic power of tea! Your move, coffee and red wine!

Designer: Emilio Alarcon (Organ Teas)

Never Get Lost at Sea

Posted: 13 Dec 2016 10:27 AM PST

Time is the plain and simple difference between life and death at sea. This is especially true for water sports enthusiasts like surfers and skiers who put themselves at peril for the activities they love. The Coastal Beacon and Buoyancy Aid offers a streamlined solution that jumps into action in the event of an emergency.

The wearable device fits comfortably on the arm and can be triggered by the wearer in seconds after an accident, being caught in a riptide, or finding themselves stranded. Once triggered, a flotation aid is released and a GPS location alert is sent directly to the Coast Guard for immediate rescue.

Designer: Mike George for DCA Design

An Easier Way to Hoard your Board

Posted: 13 Dec 2016 06:35 AM PST

It’s funny how portability is such a relative word. Buildings aren’t portable, cars are. But in front of bicycles, even cars don’t seem that portable anymore. Consequently, you can carry a bicycle up the stairs, but you can’t store it in your cramped bedroom. Skateboards are therefore more portable than bicycles, what’s the next step? BoardUp has the answer. Foldable longboards give you the moving experience of a regular longboard, but they fold into half right down the middle. Most experts would argue that this makes the board incredibly weak at the folding point, but you’d be surprised how sturdy the self-locking hinge is. So much so that it doesn’t even flex when in the locked position. You can even lock and unlock the hinge hands-free with the help of a discreet pedal on the edge of the board.

When folded, the BoardUp has just about the same footprint as a laptop, making it easy to fit inside a backpack, locker, and even an airplane compartment! It even lends itself to easy carrying, with a nice ergonomic handle and a stable base that doesn’t allow the BoardUp to roll away! Plus, it weighs just a mere 7 pounds! If all that doesn’t redefine your notion of portability, I don’t know what does!

Designer: Bin Lu

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Tectonic Time Telling

Posted: 13 Dec 2016 04:24 AM PST

The Tectonic Clock earns its namesake from the moving keys which it uses in place of hands. Each passing hour and minute is represented by a shift in the surface. Free of frill, this minimalistic timepiece offers an entirely new twist in telling the time that can be both seen and felt!

Designer: Andreas Vang

Accessorize with Audio

Posted: 13 Dec 2016 12:11 AM PST

Banded Bluetooth headphones get a bad rap for being LAME but Lamy is a whole ‘nother story! These minimalistic phones are aesthetically sleek to boost your look and ultra-lightweight so you barely know they’re even there. More secure and powerful than earbuds, they’re designed to hold steady even during rigorous activity.

Designer: Dain An with PDF HAUS

Your Secret’s Safe with Privy

Posted: 12 Dec 2016 01:05 PM PST

Privy is the perfect name for this high-end security system designed to be a digital watchdog over all your devices! It offers 2 factor authentication to protect users from security breaches. A digital key to all your connected devices, it provides an additional layer of security along with your device passwords.

Wearable as a watch, or a easily tagged on any other item, Privy helps you remotely lock and unlock your devices using fingerprint scanning to authenticate the user. Cyber criminals will be deterred by first having to hack into Privy then hack into your individual personal device to access your data. To register connected devices onto Privy, users must connect to a laptop and configure settings, including fingerprint authentication.

Designers: Vaibhav Singh & Harshika Jain