One big question, five small discoveries 🌞 #70

Buonasera from Merano!

Welcome to this week’s installment of what’s hot in brands and products.

Lately my mind keeps circling one thing: decision making. Big question: What’s next?

It’s taking up a lot of mental real estate. Serious topic. I even started writing about it tonight, but the thoughts aren’t cooked yet.

I’ll share more once it’s clearer — maybe it’ll help if you’re wrestling with the same thing.

For now, here are five things worth your attention this week.

If you’re new around here: Every week, I share 5 of the coolest products from Europe I’ve discovered in the past 7 days.

I scout, you explore. Let’s get to it!

With love 🌞
Jakob

P.S.: Missed the last edition? The Typotheque sketch book took the crown as most-clicked.

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Voice Messenger for Kids [🇬🇧]

A screen-free voice messenger for kids with walkie-talkie vibes—and grown-up features. GPS, safe zones, built-in data SIM (so it works pretty much anywhere). Industrial design by Pentagram keeps it stupid-simple: slide to talk, slide to send. (Freedom for them, peace for you.)

Discover KARRI

“Fern” Wall Hanging [🇬🇧]

Monochrome, calm, quietly graphic: “Fern” is hand block-printed on European linen with natural dyes, cut and sewn in Cornwall. The dotted field riffs on a fern leaf — part of a trio of tree prints. Affordable yet unique (yes, my finger is hovering over the buy button). Comes with an oak magnetic hanger, ready to clip and hang.

Pin up “Fern”

Hanging Coral Ceiling Lamp [🇨🇾]

Our first feature from Cyprus: a sea-urchin-inspired pendant with a parametric, fractal silhouette. Printed in plant-based PLA and made to order, it reads like a sculpture that happens to light a room.

Dive into Coral

Tall Cube “POP” [🇳🇱]

Ruben grew up around tiles (his dad’s a tiler) and now builds tiled furniture with that same hand-and-eye precision. I picked the Tall Cube because every room needs a “skyline” — objects at different heights for your eyes to bounce across. This cube makes the perfect pedestal. 

Explore the Tall Cube

Acrylic 16/016 [🇳🇱]

Architect-turned-artist Florian Markus works “between art and architecture,” using digital fabrication to chase new forms of craft in his studio in Haarlem in the Netherlands. This acrylic canvas has that clean, structured energy that fills a wall with presence, not noise.

Discover Acrylic 16/016