today and tomorrow

‘Pull’ and ‘Nike Air’ by Valentin Ruhry.
via VVORK

Oscar and Ewan is a small graphic design studio in London. They were asked to participate in the Polygon Show and were given a 3D shape to respond to, a cube. They decided not to show a cube, but to remove it from a small furniture setup.

This is the ‘Divided Cube’, one of the 7 Numen Lights. It is actually a very basic object, made with two-sided mirrors and fluorescent tubes. Although the effect isn’t new, numen / for use designed 7 geometrical shapes who all have their unique reflections. Some even have flexible surfaces who move mechanically, so not only when you change your point of view you’ll get an amazing optical effect. The one below is the inside view of an Octahedron.

This is one of the installations by Olafur Eliasson, it’s just a spotlight and a mirror. You can go and see it at his exhibition called ‘The Inside Of Outside’ at the neugerriemschneider gallery in Berlin till June 21.

‘The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham)’ by Dan Flavin. Currently at Zwirner & Wirth in New York.

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

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.

This is the new Copper Table Light by Tom Dixon, he presented it today together with other new products at Superstudio Più in Milan, Italy. I really like its surface and color, he actually has some more designs using copper. Today was the official start of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, we will see what the next days bring.

‘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.

‘Ceiling Mounted’ by Fabien Cappello.