today and tomorrow

‘Same Same But Different’, a family of three glasses designed by Norway Says and available at Muuto.

‘The Level Tunnel‘ is a project for Level Vodka, designed by Hussein Chalayan. The tunnel a 15 meter long, 5 meter high, glass installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka. Visitors can walk through the tunnel blindfolded or experience it from outside. Chalayan used sound, scent and touch to create something unique. The sound for example, is created by a flute made from a vodka bottle. And when a visitor is going through the tunnel, his position is tracked and he can smell the scent of lemon and cedar as he goes further into the tunnel. When the visitor leaves the tunnel, he can of course taste the vodka. All these senses together should give the visitor an impression of what Level Vodka stands for. It is currently on display in Mexico City but it will travel to Paris and Athens later this year.

The making of video:

My favorites Swedes of Front Design also presented new work this week. This first project is called ‘Shade’, they are hand drawn objects which are materialized like illustrations. I guess you remember their Sketch Furniture project.

‘Randomly Crystallized’ was commissioned by Swarovski for their Crystal Palace. Front Design merged precision-cut crystals with hot liquid crystal to create these unique objects. I find this lamp more interesting than the vases they did.

‘A touch of Green’ is the title of the exhibition by Droog Design in Milan. Here are 2 projects that I picked out:

‘Table Tap’ by Arnout Visser. A simple and funny idea.

‘Massive Infection’ by Pieke Bergmans. She worked together with a glass blower to create these crystal vases who are pressed (still hot) onto the wooden objects and then leave black burned stains. This one of the best things I’ve seen for a while! She has a lot more projects like this one on her website.

Rotario Glass by Angelika Rümmele.

‘Muuto‘ by Harri Koskinen.

EDIT:
Thanks to nadejda, I now know that this lamp is called ‘Cosy in Grey’ and that Muuto is the brand.

This is Ivo_03, designed by Asymptote for Meta. Normally I don’t like glas tables, but this one is different …
It will be on display next week at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan (the annual international furniture fair). Wallpaper.com has a preview with a Google map so you know where to go next week.

Grey! Patterns! Yes!
This is the center page of the program for the ‘Engineered Transparency’ conference at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. The topic was glass architecture. Design by Thumb.
found at FFFFOUND!

‘Robert’ by Dieter Detzner.
found at VVORK

This is not just one vase but 3, a red , a green and a blue one. It was a reinterpretation of Veuve-Cliquot identity color for a design competion by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Designed by Oscar Diaz.
found at MoCo Loco