"I read somewhere that Nostalgia sells harder than Innovation and it really made me do a double-take. Does it make sense? Well, not really, considering how fast things are progressing on the robotics and AI front - but here's where I'd like to believe that statement rings true. Take a look at culture - old music is in again, Taylor's new album is an homage to the old."
"These are the first half of our top picks from the year, gathering designs that we as editors loved, but also taking you, the reader into account. After all, we don't write in a vacuum. We try to find designs and tech that genuinely impress or inspire you, and if you've been spending 2025 doing a bunch of other things (like surviving) apart from reading Yanko Design,"
Nostalgia resurged across 2025 culture and technology, visible in music comebacks, retro film revivals, and renewed interest in legacy aesthetics. Tech embraced vintage cues through reissued hardware, emulators, and design trends recalling devices like the Nintendo GBA and iMac G3. The year exhibited a pendulum swing between extremes, aesthetic styles, ideologies, and eras. Twenty standout designs were selected to represent 2025, with the first ten highlighted here as editor- and reader-inspired picks. Concept work such as Sidhant Patnaik's Google Pixel Headphones generated notable excitement by borrowing visual cues from existing product lineups.
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