today and tomorrow

Business model of the day: NYC garbage.

Do you still buy CD’s? According to Alice Wang, Audio Sticks are the future music media.

Jasper Goodall is not only a graphic designer, he also designs bikinis and swimwear: JG4B.

HOME EXPLOSION (environmental installation with lamp and video) – 1998, lamp – 120×80x80cm, glass, light, video

A collaboratin between ihavepop.com and Solebox, these four shoes are constructed from the boxes they come in. Does that make sense? Maybe its not suppose to. As it says on the site -

“Often things are just the way they appear, but sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find the meaning. All you have to do is question.”

found at Sneaker Freaker

Tangent is a multi-touch research platform; a digital medium for testing and developing new intuitive interaction techniques.

In the last twenty years the classic computer interface mouse-keyboard-screen has hardly changed.
But now Tangent offers a direct interface with virtual objects by making it possible to touch and manipulate these objects.
A sensitive surface like this one asks for fundamently different interaction principles than the ones known from traditional interfaces.

In the project phase Tangent was developed and built and a range (set) of interaction principles were designed and implemented.

a Seat by Marc de Groot

dustcollectors by Sebastian Straatsma

This years grill season is going on for some time now. Here some grills for us, the urban people.

CityBoyPicnic grill

table grill by eva solo

PIZZONI

I found these handbags some time ago, but now I found the product design firm who designed them: conphorm.