today and tomorrow

Excellent computer graphics for Rheingold’s music video “Computer Beat”.
Check out those Plexiglas keyboards in the second part!

Again a pair of stilettos by Pierre Hardy. These just look monstrous! He designed these for Balenciaga.
found at the SHOWstudio blog

This lamp base is made of crushed plastic bottles and you can also get is as a tamble lamp.
by Studiomold, found at MoCo Loco

Jar tops is a set of plastic tops to turn jars in vessels with a specific function, like turning it into a milk can or sugar pot. Designed by Jorre van Ast.

The Drain Eye-Catchers are both functional and pretty. Performing one of the dirtiest jobs in the house, these hair-catchers are also eye-catchers, adding perhaps a little pleasure to the user when facing the task of doing the dishes or cleaning the sink. Coming in 4 different patterns, the drain hair-catchers are each hand-made from hard plastic, and are a limited production edition. They are dishwasher-safe.

by The Ornamented Life

The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.

Here’re some pets made of PET bottles by Miwa Koizumi.

I love the idea of using liquid containers to make water animals. Contained/containing, trash/not-trash, like the jelly-fish or anemone: Living/non-living

found at NOTCOT.

Here’re some innovative cutlery designs.

Vegetable Cutlery by Peter Marigold

The Decission Spoon by Alexandre Bettler

Stamp. reusable cutlery by Tomás Alonso

German artist Sofi Zezmer creates vibrant sculptures of plastic and metal, inspired by biochemistry, quantum mechanics, space travel and genetic stem cell research. These complex ideas are often represented by materials as simple as badminton shuttlecocks, in brights such as lime, orange, red, pink and yellow. Scientific models are certainly what jump to mind when Zezmer’s work is presented, but there is also something anatomical or even undersea about some of her pieces.

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