today and tomorrow

This is pure dots pron!

found at bevel and boss

‘Template’ presents current tendencies in visual media by interdisciplinary artists working in the fields of digital music, generative art and graphic design.

Over a half year ago, Reebok did its first collaboration with John Maeda: the John Maeda Reebok Timetanium Ventilator. A few months later he also did a woman’s sneaker and now Solebox released the image of this Reebok Insta Pump Fury. I can’t find any words to describe this … John you are letting me down! What happened to simplicity?

EDIT: I stand partly corrected. Solebox just added a video of John Maeda explaining the concept behind this sneaker. I guess I’ll have to see it in the flesh to make a final call on it.

Jonathan Puckey is a Dutch graphic designer who can script. He often uses Scriptographer, a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator, so that’s probably why he calls his work ‘conditional design’. ‘Delaunay Raster’ is his latest project, it’s image vectorization based on Delaunay triangulation. So on the left you can recognize Kate Moss and on the right Notorious BIG. But if you want to understand why this is so amazing, you’ll have to go to his website and watch the short demo video.

found at FFFFOUND!

Gray Concrete by Parklab, my kind of t-shirt.

Patterns … mon amour. The Pattern Foundry is what it is. The only downside is the navigation of the website.
found at manystuff.org

I’m a big fan of Felice Varini, a Swiss artist with a different point of view. I’ll let his work speak for itself.

‘Huit carrés’

‘Gare! aux triangles’

‘Suites de triangles’

Eskimoblood made these nice Truchet Tiles with Processing. You can find more of his work here.

‘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.