today and tomorrow

‘Spinal Rhythms‘ is the thesis project of Eva Schindling. The subtitle is ‘Autonomous Embodied Evolution of a Biomimetic Robot’s Rhythmic Motion Behavior’, I’ve read it a few times and I’m still puzzled. It’s all about the physical movement of a stick-creature and its fitness. She didn’t use any electric motor to move the limbs but elastic shape memory alloy springs. Those contract when heated with electic current and expand when the cooldown, an Arduino board controls the whole system (an open source physical computing platform). It is of course very conceptual but maybe the video will clear up a few things.

Black, grey and white mixed with patterns, my kind of art. All artworks by Richard Allen.

Illuminati, a collective exhibition at the Lazydog gallery, Paris by Ill Studio.

Justine Ashbee draws these amazing curves by hand!
found at Infostuka.org

‘Grid’ by Matthias Jäger & Georg Kettele.

‘Single Curved Line With 768 Inflection Points’ by Hideki Nakazawa.

‘Hill & Gully Rider’ by Peter Rentz. Patterns!

‘Swept Away’ by Andrew Douglas Underwood, he gets his inspiration from nature and makes patterns with it.

Folded frosted polypropylene … the structure, the pattern, the material … my kind of stuff.
found at FFFFOUND!

This is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.