today and tomorrow

MUJI & LEGO

pieter | today and tomorrow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:22 +0000

The Japanese retail brand MUJI and LEGO teamed up to develop a set of 4 different boxes. Inside those boxes you’ll find the classic LEGO bricks but also a few sheets of paper. No big deal. But when you also have the right punch hole tool, you can combine both to create something new. I really like this concept. You can order a set here (when you speak sone Japanese).

found at hypebeast

Deformscape

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:23:56 +0000

Deformscape is an optical illusion designed by Faulders Studio for the garden of Jeff Dauber. It was designed with 3D software and then custom-milled using marine-grade plywood.

found at Metropolis Mag

Steak Filter

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:10:06 +0000

Steak Filter: a video signal of a steak is sent through the steak as it cooks. A project by Aka Media System.

found at kottke

The Techno Viking Archive

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:16 +0000

Everyone knows the Techno Viking video, right? It’s that weird guy dancing in the street during the Berlin Fuck Parade in 2000. But what I didn’t know it that the original title is actually Kneecam No 1 and that it was filmed by Matthias Fritsch. He did some research on his video and found out that it was viewed over 20,000,000 times and made a small exhibition about it: The Techno Viking Archive.
Remember: “The Techno Viking doesn’t dance to the music, but the music dances to the Techno Viking”.

Escape Vehicle No.6 versus The Space Chair Project

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:56:16 +0000

In 2004, Simon Faithfull was commissioned to do a live event by The Arts Catalyst for its Artists Airshow. He decided to launch a weather balloon with a chair attached to it. The audience could follow the live video feed on a large screen. A typical art project.
In 2009, the advertising agency Grey London did The Space Chair Project for their client Toshiba. They also launched a chair with a weather balloon, except that they used HD cameras to create the highest HD TV ad in the world. But somehow they don’t mention Simon Faithfull anywhere …

Update: According to this article, Simon was part of the team who did the ad.

Escape Vehicle No 6 by Simon Faithfull (2004)

The Space Chair Project

The Making of Space Chair

found via @golan

Stumped Lamps

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:32:17 +0000

Stumped is a limited edition of lamps made of logs, designed by egg collective.

found at pan-dan

Barry Underwood

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:54:02 +0000

Here’re some amazing photos by Barry Underwood.

found at BLDGBLOG

Alle Meine Filzstifte

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:39:18 +0000

Alle Meine Filzstifte (All my markers) by Andrea Übelacker.

I Don’t Want I Want

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:25:48 +0000

“I Don’t Want I Want” by Marte Kiessling.

Subconscious Effect of Daylight

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:05:52 +0000

“Subconscious Effect of Daylight” is a side table by Daniel Rybakken, or maybe it’s a lamp … Underneath the tabletop there’s a lamp which gives the illusion of the sun shining through a window because of the artificial shadows that are cast to the floor.

found at designboom weblog

Cable Drawings

pieter | today and tomorrow — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:36:33 +0000

“Cable Drawings”, a simple and funny idea by Maisie Maud Broadhead.

found at trendbeheer

House H by Sou Fujimoto

pieter | today and tomorrow — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:50:54 +0000

House H is the latest project by Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo. It’s new experiment to find a balance between volumes, spaces and light. There’re a lot of stairs in this house and I’m also wondering where the bedrooms are. But I wouldn’t mind if Sou would do some projects in Berlin. Here are 2 other projects by Sou Fujimoto: House N and Next Generation House.
Photos by Iwan Baan.

Study For A Mirror

pieter | today and tomorrow — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:02:33 +0000

Tonight I saw a very nice presentation on the work of rAndom international, a London-based art and design collective, hosted by designtransfer of the UDK Berlin. One of the project that Hannes Koch presented was “Study For A Mirror” which is actually the next generation of their other piece called “A Study Of Three Mirrors“.

‘Study For A Mirror’ is a ‘temporary light painting’. Face recognition technology detects when the viewer is standing in front of the work and then directly paints the onlookers image in light. The Image then gradually fades. Evectively a mirror this work offers the ultimate immediate, yet ephemeral, contemporary portrait.

Chris O’Shea wrote the software with openFrameworks & openCV.

Google Portrait Series

pieter | today and tomorrow — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:25:50 +0000

The Google Portrait Series by Aram Bartholl are a series of matrix-code drawings. These codes are Google URL search strings of the portrayed person. In this image, Aram searched for his name in German, English, Chinese and Korean.

Outerspace

pieter | today and tomorrow — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:06:35 +0000

The Senstor reminded me of another project called Outerspace, I’m so surprised that I didn’t post this before. It was a project which Andre Stubbe and Markus Lerner did during their time at the UDK Berlin in 2004.
Outerspace is a reactive robotic creature with animal-like behaviour. It can react to humans thanks to the photo sensors in the top part and capacitory sensors that react to human body contact. There’re some nice videos on the website showing this interaction.