today and tomorrow

Fractal 23 by Takeshi Miyakawa Design.

Patricia Urquiola designed a new collection of different chairs for the Italian furniture brand Moroso, called Tropicalia. She used 3 different materials for the weaving, so you have outside and inside versions. This RGB one is my favorite.

It is hard to say if Roy McMakin is an artist or a furniture designer. I really like how he plays with positive and negative space to combine different objects.
found at designboom weblog

Damn, my soapbox cars didn’t look like this Bentley, mine weren’t even electric powered. Back then gravity did the job, but this one will race in the “Greenpower” series. It was build by a team of youngsters with the help of some professionals of course. In the current Bentley line-up, the smallest engine has a 5998cc capacity … just trying to be ‘green’ huh.
More info here.

This is the ‘Divided Cube’, one of the 7 Numen Lights. It is actually a very basic object, made with two-sided mirrors and fluorescent tubes. Although the effect isn’t new, numen / for use designed 7 geometrical shapes who all have their unique reflections. Some even have flexible surfaces who move mechanically, so not only when you change your point of view you’ll get an amazing optical effect. The one below is the inside view of an Octahedron.

Can it get even more simple? This is a DIY clock, you’ll get just the clockwork, you’ll have to come up with the hours and minutes hands yourself. ‘Meaning of Time’ was designed by Bomi Kim.
found at Yanko Design

This is the ‘Mural Dishwasher’ by Marie-Christine Lacasse & Marie Claude Savard, they are both graduate students from the environment design program at the Centre de Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal. This is really interesting concept, it combines the cabinets to store the tableware with a dishwasher. You would fill up a compartment with dirty dishes, then the dishwasher would move from one to another.
found at MoCo Loco

Normally I’m more into Italian car design … but this BMW M1 Hommage just look like a mean lean racing machine. BMW presented this study last weekend the Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este to celebrate the thirtieth birthday of the BMW M1, a true classic. Actually, they only did the body design, it doesn’t have an interior or even a motor. If you want to see more angles and details, check you this gallery.

This is NOVA, a 3D LED display, developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich to celebrate their 150th anniversary. Here are some numbers: it is build with 25000 lightballs, each containing 12 LED’s. It can display 16 million colors and 25 images per second. It measures 5 by 5 by 1 meter and it is 3.3 tons heavy. Impressive! So if you happen to go to Zurich, make sure you go and check it out in the train stations main hall, it will be there till September 2009.
There are some more photos in tom29ger his Flickr set.

This is the Martin Margiela Euro Wallet, you can get one here.
If you still believe in the $, you’ll want this one.