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Still Life

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:31:46 +0000

Still Life by Scott Garner is an interactive gallery piece that takes traditional still life painting into the fourth dimension with a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount.

found at CreativeApplications.net

Air Vases

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:03:13 +0000

The Japanese studio Torafu Architects designed 2 new versions of their air vases: Gradation and Cube. Those 2 patterns are printed on both sides of paper disks, which are cut so the user can simply pull them into the desired shape. They don’t much function but they look nice.

found at dezeen

Little Shining Man

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:48:50 +0000

“Little Shining Man” is kite conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford. It features 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. It just looks beautiful.

found at creativeapplications.net

Garden & House

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:04:28 +0000

The Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa designed this “Garden & House” in Tokyo on a very small lot of just 8 x 4 m. It doesn’t really have a facade or walls: vases, planters, concrete benches, plexiglass railings, full-height windows and curtains form the boundary between inside and outside. I’m baffled.
Photos by Iwan Baan.

found at DOMUS

Collection of Light

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:44:44 +0000

The “Collection of Light” by humans since 1982 is probably the best lamp I’ve seen in a while. It is simply a collection of LEDs which together constitute a lamp in itself. They wanted to create an aura of a real collection (similar to a collection of insects) and expose each illuminant as a worthy industrial product. The LEDs are all labeled (with name, size and colour temperature) and arranged in a specific order to accomplish harmonic light.
I want one!

found at designboom weblog

Bloomberg Pavilion Project

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:40:38 +0000

You could argue that the Bloomberg Pavilion Project of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, is just a fancy white box. That my be true, but I really like. It was designed by Akihisa Hirata.

found at domus

Little Printer

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:16:27 +0000

BERG, a London-based design studio, has just announced 2 new products: Little Printer and BERG Cloud. Little Printer is a thermal printer with a wireless connection to the Web. Each time you press the button, a neat little personalised package will be printed immediately. You can configure the messages with your smartphone, this is the part where the BERG Cloud will shine. Just watch the video and see how beautiful the graphic design is.
Unfortunately it will only be launched as a “beta” product in 2012. Can’t wait to get one.

House NA

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:36:24 +0000

I’m pretty sure that his is the weirdest house I’ve ever posted. It was designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects and is located in Tokyo. Just go ahead and watch the video … I just can’t get my head around its structure.

On the Corner

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:06:40 +0000

Loving this apartment building called “On the Corner” in Shiga, Japan. Designed by EASTERN design office.

found at Yatzer

Iris van Herpen

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:55:43 +0000

Here’re 3 pieces from Iris van Herpen‘s Capriole collection. I guess they’re more wearable sculptures than fashion.

found at coute que coute

11 Boxes

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:48:18 +0000

I just love the simplicity of “11 Boxes”, designed by Keiji Ashizawa Design.

found at Arch Daily

S House

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:40:18 +0000

I’m a fan of concrete, the s house in Fukuoka, Japan, just looks awesome. It was designed by stad / Shimokawa Toru. Please note the small windows facing the house next door in the third photo.

found at designboom weblog

Digitalized

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:47:31 +0000

I’m quite impressed with the 3D textile textures in Alba Prat her designs.

found at designboom weblog

Time Print Machine

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:33:33 +0000

Time Print Machine by Paul Ferragut is a printing system using felt pen on blotting paper. The felt-pen ink bleed in the paper for a duration relative to the grey value of a pixel. Every “time stain” gradually recreates any images in a pointillist style. The aim of this project is to emphasize the making process, it can take 20 hours to print one color on a A2 paper.

Thermochromic Clock

pieter | today and tomorrow — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:30:11 +0000

You could say that the “Thermochromic Clock” by CW&T looks like any other 4-digit 7-segment timepiece, but this one just works quite different.

Each segment in the display is made with a length of nichrome wire and then covered by a thick layer of black thermochromic paint. Time is displayed by applying voltage to the nichrome wire. As the wire sustains an electric current, it heats up the surrounding thermochromic paint, causing it to become transparent.

I want one.

found at CreativeApplications.Net