today and tomorrow

This Venn Diagram - Happiness in Business by Bud Caddell sums it up perfectly.
The quest for HOORAY! continues.

found at NoMoreSleep Blog

The Turn is a new interactive website by the multi-media artist & singer Fred Viola, you probably know his “The Sad Song“. It’s been a while since I’ve spend more than 10 minutes on flash website, so that is quite an achievement. Visit it now!

“Mushrooms Ate My Furniture” is piece of garden furniture designed by Shinwei Rhoda Yen. The outer side of the stool is made of the hard-wood larch, the bark on the inner side is birch or pine embedded with mushrooms’ spawn. After some time the mushrooms will grow and degrade the wood. Eventually the stool will fall apart, the mushrooms ate it.

Seen at DMY Berlin Youngsters

“Modulares Licht” is the diplom thesis of Robert Hoffmann. He made 3 different lights where you can tilt the sidepanels. So you can not only change their shapes but also control the light. Neat.

Seen at DMY Berlin Youngsters

O!Cap is a silicon lampshade designed by designlab. It is available in 3 different colours, but the catch is that they added different aroma’s to the silicon like lemongrass for example. So when you put one over an energy saving light bulb, the heat of the lamp sets the scent free.
You can go and see/smell them at DMY Berlin Youngsters.

Tonight was the opening of the Youngsters exhibition of the DMY Berlin International Design Festival. The quality of the work on display was very good, in the next few posts I will present some of them.

Nido is a collection of 6 stools and tables by Eva Marguerre. They are made of fibreglass which makes them extremely light, between 840g and 1020g, but also very stable, they can carry up to 150kg. You should actually watch the videos in the moodgallery. The material and the resin give them a very nice texture. They are only available in laser red and cost €198. I’m sold.
Nido is also on the shortlist for the DMY Award, good luck next Friday!

“It wasn’t meant to end like this” is an installation by Glue Society. It seems like a 25-ton mechanical digger buried itself under 300 tons of sand. You can see it at the Sculpture by the Sea festival in Aarhus, Denmark.

found at CR Blog

Samson is a museum installation by Chris Burden. It is made of a 100-ton jack, a gear box and a turnstile. Each time when a visitor enters the gallery space and passes through the turnstile, the jack connected to the gear box expand a little and pushes against the walls. So when a certain amount of people visit the exhibition, it is possible that the walls could collapse.

found at things magazine

“The Animatic” is a Rube Goldman machine developed by Yuri Suzuki and Household. It is actually a three-dimensional music video. A record player triggers a chain of small individual animating machines. These are all based on simple animation techniques from flick books to shadow puppets. The viewer follows a chain of machines to piece together a narrative. By the time the viewer reaches the end of the song they will have seen in essence a music video for the chosen record, which in this instance is “Memphis Tennessee”, a Silicon Teens cover of the classic track by Chuck Berry.

“The Hustle With Art and Economy” by Bernhard Garnicnig.