I guess you all remember Daito Manabe his Electric Stimulus project where he stimulated his facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music. Daito and Masaki Teruoka developed the next step of this system. Together with myoelectric sensors, they can make music by tapping on each other’s skin. Just watch the video!
Niklas Roy his workshop is located in an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street. In an attempt to create more privacy inside, he decided to install a small but smart curtain in that window. The curtain is smaller than the window, but an additional surveillance camera and an old laptop provide it with intelligence: The computer sees the pedestrians and locates them. With a motor attached, it positions the curtain exactly where the pedestrians are.
This is a guest post by Costas Voyatzis of yatzer.
The first time I came upon Today & Tomorrow was somewhere in Athens, Greece in the middle of December 2007. Regardless of dates & location, I fell in love with its content immediatelly. After that I spent a lot of hours catching up on the posts that had been published since the 21st July 2005, and today I have to admit that I am one of its thousand avid readers.
Last week I received an invitation which I couldn’t reject. Pieter, the man behind Today & Tomorrow, kindly asked me to send him a post due to his 5th anniversary. So here it is, inspired by the compelling DIY (Do It Yourself) culture, a fashion shoot which was published in the latest WAD magazine, “The R-Evolution issue” No45.
Ndeur (Mathieu Missiaen) and Make a Paper World (Julien Morin), two French artists who compose Le Creative Sweatshop, designed a series of paper fashion accessories exclusively for WAD magazine. The accessories seem to be part of the models as you can see through the eyes of photographer Matthieu Deluc. According to Mathieu and Julien “Creativity is all around us – it is something you must constantly work on, whereas the more you are surrounded by a creative environment the more creative you become – creativity is an everyday job and consists of hard work’.
The French duo really know what creativity means and I’m 100% sure that Pieter has the same belief.
Please keep stimulating our fantasy and feed our inspiration with your selections which will always be irresistible.
Happy Birthday Today & Tomorrow…..
Costas Voyatzis //
During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Tom Dixon presented his Etch collection, which was part of his Flash Factory. Visitors could buy a light or candleholder at the stand, or made of brass or stainless steel. The parts were made by employing an industrial process used to produce electronic products, including circuit boards. The patterns were directly etched on the thin metal sheets. This production technique allows the designer to produce a small bath of high-tech products in a very short time. But also the distribution model at the Flash Factory was quite interesting. The objects were offered in 3 versions: a pre-assembled one by one of the Flash Factory workers, or you could assemble it yourself at the stand and the last option was to buy a flat packed one and assemble it at home.
photo by MenthaArvensis
photo by MenthaArvensis
Alphablast is a series of decorated drinking glasses designed by Marco Dessí. He used orange nets as a template to sandblast their pattern onto fine Lobmeyr mouthblown glass. A very simple idea with a nice outcome. Each glass is unique.
found at dezeen
Learning From is a project by Nora Korn & Christoph Köhler. Over a period of 3 months, they collected and documented bulky trash. This resulted in fifty piles of
bulky waste and in eleven items of newly combined, rebuilt or converted bulky waste. Here are my 4 favorites:
found at It’s Nice That
Vektron Modular is a modular, algorithmic synthesizer made by Niklas Roy. The interesting part is that you can swap the microcontroller modules on which the compositions are stored. I whish I had the skills to build something like this.
CHROMAesthesiae is an installation by SOFTlab at the Devotion gallery in New York. It’s made of laser cut photo glossy ink jet paper and every panel has a unique color gradient. They’ve choosen for very simple technique to build the funnels: binder clips. Colorful!
found at designboom weblog
