today and tomorrow

Cardboard Tuning by Florian Jenett.

found at trendbeheer

If you buy the Raf Simons Zip Change Sneakers, you’ll get 2 pairs of shoes. Well actually not, you’ll get one rubber sole and 2 uppers which you can zip together. The idea is funny, but the sneakers look like … fugly and they even cost £499.00.

‘Crumpled Letters’  by Michal Budny.

‘Fauteuil Chair’, a cardboard study by Aranda/Lasch.
found at dezeen

Here are some amazing paper / cardboard prototypes of architectual projects by Horst Kiechle; more details here.
found @ Computerlove

What’s up with those glasses / visor? You can find a lot more different designs at Jun Takahashi his blog. He is the designer of the fashion brand Undercover. Check out his design studio too.

Lennyjpg does processing stuff … a lot. He has over 2600 photos in his flickr account with processing projects. One of these programming projects made it to the physical world, he has build the Physical Vertex Buffer in cardboard.

Ferry Staverman makes objects like this one. They are made of beeboard, cardboard with an honeycomb core, and hold their structure with thin threads.

If you have some cardboard lying around and some spare time, then you can also build yourself a box like the Mafoombey to listen to your favorite music …

“When homeless take over the world, the cardboard revolution” shows you the future of product design. Actually I think it’s part of a charity campaign … but I couldn’t really find proof for it. Anyway here are the “portable stereo speakers” and the “Hide-A-Key” from their collection.