“The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle” by Jonathan Schipper is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. You can see 2 timelapse videos here.
found at I am Jeriko
I’m not 100% sure, but it looks like Francisco Infante-Arana used aluminium foil to make these shapes on that bush. Make sure you check out his other works with mirrors too.
The Smallest Garden by Chae Young Kim is part of her Urban Camouflage Project. It is a series of computer generated patterns which still have this hand drawn look. They are inspired by the structures of plants which Chae translated into mathematical graphic formulas. She printed the designs on silk habotai and they can be tufted on wall panels for example. I’m really looking forward to see these next week at the DMY International Design Festival Berlin.
found at designboom weblog
Meme Scenery is a series of 22 images. They are the backgrounds of famous internet memes, the subjects are removed from the photos or videos. I’m sure you recognize most of them.
found at kottke
How did young designers show off their work in the pre internet era? It is so nice to find online portfolios filled with nice projects these days. So here are 2 projects by Eric Ku: CHAIR/CHAIR and “Only Graphic Designers Can See - Magazine, Issue 1″.
found at It’s Nice That
The Broken Arm Chair by George Dubinsky is definitely one of the funniest design objects I’ve seen in a while.
found at designboom weblog
Cloud is an installation by An Te Liu, he presented it at the 2008 Venice Biennial of Architecture. It’s made of 120 air purifiers, ionizers, sterilizers, washers, humidifiers, ozone air cleaners. They were all running constantly.
