today and tomorrow

No, these aren’t just shards but rings by Gabriela Felgenträger.

found at why not?

‘White Cloud’ & ‘Cumulus Mediocris’ by Tom Lauerman.

Photos by TelegraphArt.

The Royal College of Art in London is currently showing the work of their postgraduate students: Show RCA 2008. Here are some projects:

Home Sweet Home by Marie Retpen (Ceramics & Glass).

The Aftermath by Caroline Tattersall (Ceramics & Glass).

Blog Bot Platform by Andrew Broomfield (Design Interactions).

Blog Bot Platform is an open source system which I have developed for creating Different types of Blogging objects. Turning Simple experiences into online encounters. These bots ‘tweet’ to their experiences to micro blogging services. I am interested in how people react when they encounter these Blogjects invading their web 2.0 space.

White Lies by Alice Wang (Design Interactions).

This scale allows one to lie to him/herself.
The further back you stand, the lighter you become.
The user can gradually move closer and closer to reality.

Nanofutures: Sensual Interfaces by Christopher Woebken (Design Interactions).

Rather than focusing on the current development of nanotechnology, such as creating lighter and stronger materials, this project focuses on exploring its potential further, creating more manipulative prototypes such as organic electronics.

What do organic computing look like and how will our relationship with these products change? Can organic electronics with biosensors open up new possibilities for sensual and poetic designs?

Seeds contain material and information needed to grow organisms as well as algorithms for device networking. Using seeds as a simulation for smart dust, it allows one to easily visualize new interactions such as breaking, sharing, throwing away and mining data. These new interactions not only generate new behaviors but also redefine existing stereotypical electronic products.

Plugless Sink by Maja Ganszyniec (Design Products).

Plugless sink is exactly that, a sink without a plughole. To get rid of the grey water we have to tip the water out. By doing so we become more conscious of how much water we are using and mainly throwing away. This sink shows the value of water through its volume and promotes water re-usage.

Potato Chips by Cyrille Najjar (Design Products).

The Fastest Clock in the World by Freddie Yauner (Design Products).

Exhausted Cutlery by Kathryn Hinton (Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery).

Pia Lundqvist is a Swedish glass artist, her artworks are quite strange. She used all sorts of found objects to create these ‘guns’.

‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.

Shary Boyle makes these weird porcelain figurines, creepy.
found at Delicious Ghost

No, this isn’t just a plastic bucket, this is the Bucket Vase by Tina Roeder. You better be careful with it, it’s a porcelain bucket!

For her White Plastic Chairs she uses old, found or decaying garden chairs. They all become an unique piece after being perforated and sanded.

Monique Goossens designs a lot of ceramic products with a twist, I really like this plate.
found at designboom weblog

It seems that Mariella di Gregorio knows what to do with porcelain.

Die Gestalten Verlag  presents this exhibition called ‘Fragiles‘, it has over 200 objects made from porcelain, glass and ceramics. I guess this makes the design trend with those materials official. Unfortunately you’ll have to go to Miami to visit it.