today and tomorrow

Gamin (rascal) & Enter, both by Xavier Barrade. I really like his animation style, remember evil Gates?

When it comes to cars, Lamborghini is just my kind of machine, design wise. I would rather drive a Maserati, they don’t have that ‘in your face’ attitude. So this is the new official TV commercial for the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4. Of course the shots are stylish, black and white most of the time, some drifting …
But what the f#*? did they think when they decided on the features they wanted to show off? The ‘Phone Number Collecting Set’? Or even better ‘Get Into All Clubs Function’? Apparently they target butt ugly rich kids.

These are 2 prints by Alex Kanevsky and are part of the X-Ray Series. They are aquatint etchings done in the technique of direct gravure and printed on Japanese Gampi paper.

Ikarus by Aylin Kayser & Christian Metzner is a wax lamp. On the photo you can see 5 different phases of the lamp. The heat of the light bulb lets the wax melt, which leads to unpredictable deformations. I would like to know how long it takes untill your lampshade is completely gone.

If you want a Log Clock by Gogo, you ‘ll have to saw one off the the raw pinewood log.

Plopp is a stool designed by Oskar Zieta. Indeed it looks like a blow-up stool, but it isn’t, it is actually made with thin metal sheets. The production techniques are the interesting part: cut with a CNC machine, welded together and then hydro formed. The result is really light structure. Every stool is unique, there is no control over the dents during the hydro forming.

Tonight was the opening DMY 2008, an annual design show in Berlin. Thanks to my buddy Watson I had the chance to go to the press preview of the DMY Youngsters exhibition. There were a lot of interesting and nice designs, so I start off with Mesdames Plissées by Petra Wüstling. There are 3 different models of the light object, you could describe it as a plissée skirt lampshade. The different layers and folds make it really interesting.

‘Stag Scaffolding Sculpture’ by Ben Long.
found at CR Blog

‘Gute Aussichten‘ (good prospects) is an exhibition about young German photographers at the
Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The admission is only € 3.50 which is a steal these days.

Projection by Vanessa Jack

Labelstore by Nadine Fraczkowski

Bild_Raum by Irina Jansen

Paper Wars is small exhibition of the Death Machines series of paper reproductions of classic weapons systems, organized by PostlerFerguson. PostlerFerguson started with their AK-47 Paper Gun Model Kit and expanded the series with 4 more weapons. Now they asked some other designers to work with that AK-47 kit as a starting point for a new design.
I’m really against guns, but the fact that this Oerlikon 35mm anti-aircraft gun is made with paper, is quite impressive.