today and tomorrow

This is very simpla and nice clock called ‘Just A Moment’, by Reddish Studio. Available at Fluke.

Standard Time is a project by Mark Formanek in collaboration with Datenstrudel. For 24 hours, 70 workers build a wooden 4 x 12 m “digital” time display, a work that involved 1611 changes within 24 hour period.

found at vvork

Receipt Clock by Marc Owens.

Wether it be on a bus ticket, mini bank statement or shop receipt the presence of the printed time and date are all consistently featured. I am interested in how this documentation of a specific time and date can be applied to time keeping generally.
This product allows for a more private interaction with time. The faceless clock only tells the time when the user presses the central button, the clock then prints the time and date on to the internal roll of paper, the result of which is deposited from the front slot so the user can tear it off and keep it. The ‘time receipt’ also has a series of printed lines which allows space for the user to write a personal message which is significant to that particular moment in time.

This installation is called ‘Twice Over‘ and was done by Tyler Coburn and Benjamin Farnsworth. It is a digital clock combined with some neon tubes. This is its schedule:

08:00:00pm Open Set / Midnight GMT
12:00:00am Empty Set
12:45:00am End Cycle

I’m not sure if you really could read the time from it. If you want to see what happens then go and watch the movie here.

EDIT:
Tyler Coburn just send me some more information about this project:

(2008), a collaboration with Londoner Benjamin Farnsworth, attempts to build a trans-temporal, trans-spatial communication device. Consisting of a digital clock and neon sculpture, our piece measures the distance between midnight (Greenwich Mean Time) and my local midnight (New York City). The observatory in Greenwich, England has always held a fascination for me, particularly because one can visit it and spatially inhabit the origin-point of time. Twice Over attempts a similar spatio-temporal collapse in a machine that nightly makes a transatlantic journey from an open to an empty set, and from one midnight to another.

found at vvork

If you want a Log Clock by Gogo, you ‘ll have to saw one off the the raw pinewood log.

Can it get even more simple? This is a DIY clock, you’ll get just the clockwork, you’ll have to come up with the hours and minutes hands yourself. ‘Meaning of Time’ was designed by Bomi Kim.
found at Yanko Design

This clock by Christiaan Postma is build with 150 clockworks, each white line is one clockwork. They all have to work together to become one clock. The time is written by the lines, on the left you can read three, on the right four and so on. I guess this animation will make it clear how it works.

This years exhibition by the Design Academy Eindhoven in Milan was called ‘Still’. Here are 3 projects that I really liked.

‘Safely Dangerous Kitchen’ by Jonathan Ben-tovim. I guess you can’t really reduce it much more.
photo by José van Riele

‘Soil Lamp’ by Marieke Staps. This lamps works with mud, the metabolism of the biological life generates enough electricity to light an LED. The only thing this lamp needs is a little bit of water from time to time.
photo by Rene van der Hulst

‘Idea of a Clock’ by Hans Tan. I guess this doesn’t need any explanation. ‘Portrait of a Lamp‘ also belongs to this project called ‘The imaginary mass of things’.
photo by Rene van der Hulst

Jeff Werner is a design student who is attending the Design Academy in Eindhoven this semester. These 2 images show the design process of a clock and I find it quite intriguing … I hope he shows us the final result too.
found at grijs

D/A Clock by Alvin Aronson, this video will make you want one.

This object plays on the common LED-display digital clock with physical segments that slowly fade in and out of a white surface. The D/A Clock introduces new characteristics to the digital mediation of time: a physical dimension and intermediate states – the time between 0 and 1.

found at vvork