today and tomorrow

Handicaped Cars by Beni Bischof.

found at DTYBYWL

Last September, Jonathan Schipper did an European version of his installation “The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle” in Den Haag, The Netherlands. This time he used a Mercedes 230 CE Brabus and a MBW 525i. The crash took 6 days and I would call it a tie

photos by René Bakker
found at DTYBYWL

These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961. They’re made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and are brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim. The Goodyear Tire Company intend to produce the tyres in a variety of colours. So they came up with this so that women could adjust their stockings at night?
Anyway, I guess something like this would be any car-tuners dream. According to LIFE magazine this is one of the 30 dumbest inventions. The Cigarette Pack Holder must be the dumbest ever, right before the Venetian Blind Sunglasses, yeah Kanye, really.

(Photo by Douglas Miller/Getty Images)

(Photo by Douglas Miller/Getty Images)

This is the Maserati Boomerang, a concept car from 1971. I don’t believe that current concept cars will look that fresh in 40 years. The Boomerang is a beast, just look at the wheels.

found at cammmpo

You can only get into this 1965 Dodge Deora Concept through its windshield. Otherwise, it’s a very nice design.

found at clusterflock

I’m a real fan of Mad Men, a TV series by AMC about the men and women of Madison Avenue advertising in the 1960’s. The acting, art direction and camera work are outstanding.
The advertising agency GSD&M Idea City, a real one, came up with the idea to do a collaboration between Mad Men, BMW and Vanity Fair. They produced on the set of Mad Men and with the show’s stylists and art director, a 5 page pictorial fold-out which will be published in the September issue of Vanity Fair. The idea behind is that America’s perceptions of diesel is still stuck in the 1960’s and wanted to juxtapose this with reality.
What about that? Mad Men really advertise something.

found at dropular

Burning Car by SUPERFLEX is an 10 minute long film of a car burning. The detail shots of the car-paint coming off are amazing. The sound is a nice extra too. (BTW, press the HQ button when you watch the video.)

This is a selfportrait by Gala Collette, for the record label Fool House.

found at dropular

Today is the 4th birthday of Today and Tomorrow. I don’t really want to look back, it’s today afterall. All I can say it’s been a very nice experience so far, 2804 posts and counting.
What about tomorrow? Yeah, some upgrades/updates are long overdue. Time is not my best friend.

What could be better content for Today and Tomorrow than a concept car from yesterday? Actually the BMW GINA concept car debuted last year. Its shape is not revolutionary, but its skin design is. Just watch this new video.

I know that I’m a little internet-late to this party but the iQ Agility Font is a really cool project. The Belgian advertising agency Happiness Brussels asked Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta of pleaseletmedesign to create a typeface with a Toyota iQ. They collaborated with Stef van Campenhoudt, a pro race pilot, who had to drive all the characters with the iQ. Zachary Lieberman wrote a custom software to track the movements of the car and translate them into single characters. Of course you can download the font for free here. You can find some making of pictures in this Flickr set.