today and tomorrow

‘Madagascar‘ by Psyho. Quite similar to Josh Keyes work.

ABC-3D is an amazing pop-up book with a lot of smart elements designed by Marion Bataille. Just watch the video and pre-order your copy now

Pablo Valbuena made a name last year with his ‘Augmented Sculpture Series‘, they are a combination of 3D objects with precisely mapped video projections. Here he had full control over the composition of the 3D objects. But in his latest project called ‘Entramado‘, he took his concept outside to an urban environment in Madrid. The result is …
As always, watch the videos!

‘P_Wall‘ is a project by the architectural design studio MATSYS. It investigates the self-organization of two materials, plaster and elastic fabric.

Starting from an image, a cloud of points is generated based on the image’s grayscale values. These points are then used to mark the positions of dowels which constrain the elasticity in the fabric formwork. Plaster is then poured into the mould and the fabric expands under the weight of the plaster. The resultant plaster tile has a certain resonance with the body as it sags, expands, and stretches in its own relationship with gravity and structure. Assembled into a larger surface, a pattern emerges between the initial image’s grayscale tones and the shadows produced by the wall.

This is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.

Do you use Microsoft Excel? Do you make drawings with it? Did you know that you can render 3D objects with it? No? Then read this article.

3D words on clothes, hell yeah! You can see more of Viktor & Rolf their Fall 2008 collection here.

‘Adaptable’, a flat structure can become a 3D sculpture, by Gemma Smith. You can find more of her work at the Sarah Cottier Gallery.

A few weeks ago, Nike launched the Jordan XX3, the last signature Micheal Jordan sneaker ever (ok we’ll see about that). Ofcourse they made a website to go along with it: XX3. Blast Radius did an excellent job there!
You arrive in some sort of hall from where you can enter 4 diffentent rooms. And when I say rooms, I mean 3D rooms where you can ‘walk’ around thanks to a nice interface. For those of you who don’t like this kind of explorative browsing, there’s a nice and clean alternative navigation at top of the page.
I think this is one of the best implementations of 3D Flash I’ve seen since a long time. It looks like Papervision3D, an open source 3D flash engine, is getting some real momentum here.
And as a bonus: the Nike M4 website, a few months old but definitely worth checking out too.

The fashion world found a new playground. Last season, Hussein Chalayan decided not to do a classic catwalk show, but to produce a film together with SHOWstudio, called ‘Readings‘. It was definitely a great way to show off his creations. 2 weeks ago, YSL decided to do the same thing, they replaced the catwalk show for its autumn/winter menswear collection with a film directed by Sarah Chatfield and Chris Sweeney. You can watch it here and read about it at the CR Blog.
Yesterday, Prada took it even a step further and presented ‘Trembled Blossoms’, an animation (I guess they won’t skip the classic show part). They dropped the whole models and shooting part, and replaced it with an illustration / CGI kind of look, quite refreshing if you ask me. You can find it on the Prada homepage.