today and tomorrow

Paper Irwin by Matt Shlian.

found at pan-dan

This black piramid house in Saijo, Hiroshima, was designed by Suppose Design Office. Have you ever seen something like this before? We should invite some of these Japanese architects to Europe ASAP.

found at yatzer

The Electronic Ruler designed by Shay Shafranek and Oded Webman can do a lot more than your average one. It can measure the length of each line you draw no matter where you start. But it can also measure the distance between 2 points, add the value of different lines and change its scale.

found at noquedanblogs

N-Matic is light object designed by Inga Mrazauskaite, using LED technologies and unique transformable constructions. Just watch the video below to see what’s possible.

found at flylyf

Illinois: Visualizing Music is a project by graphic designer Jax de Léon, he analyzed the ablum Illinois by Sufjan Stevens in 9 different ways and visualised his findings. The Vocal Album Grid is one of them.

Each square on the grid represents one second of the entire album. Each row makes up one minute and adds up to 1 hour, 14 minutes and 13 seconds. Colored squares indicate the subject of the lyrics being sung during each second, while gray squares indicate when there are only instrumentals and no lyrics are being sung. Multiple voices sung simultaneously are indicated by splitting up the square into sections. Other marks indicate back-up singers and non-word vocals such as “ooh” and “ahh.” Note: All information is approximate.

found at voodoovoodoo

Imported Landscape by Pétur Thomsen.

found at trendbeheer

“Self-Portrait Machine” by Jen-Hui Liao (his website isn’t online yet) is a really cool drawing machine. The user places himself in front of the machine and a camera will take his portrait. Now he has to wrap his wrists to the machine while holding 2 markers. The machine will analyze the picture and translate it into mechanical movements to guide the hands of the user to make the drawing.
You can go and see it at the Royal College of Art SHOW 2009 in London till this Sunday.

Here are a few result made by the man/machine.

found at we make money not art
photos by Jen-Hui Liao & Régine Debatty

Teruhiro Yanagihara is a Japanese interior and product designer with a really minimal style. You might remembed the interior of this hair salon in Tokyo. His website is actually brand new, somehow I like it somehow I don’t.

Play More is just the right kind of notebook for me. Designed by Trapped in Suburbia.

found at Fubiz

Modèle Puissance is French collective which pratical articulates around drawings. Here are a few drawings by Jean-Philippe Bretin from his series Circuit. If you like their work, you should check out their books Random and Supersymétrie.