“Your Mercury Ocean” is the name of this skateboard designed by Olafur Eliasson. It another great collaboration between Mekanism and an artist or designer. Olafur is the first one who asked Mekanism to produce a 13-ply deck instead of a standard 7-ply. This extra thickness gave him the possibility to mill a 3d pattern on it. Afterward, the deck received a mirror coating.
I want this one, I need this one, it would fit perfect next too my John Maeda one.
Here are 2 artworks by the English artist Anna Barriball. The first one is called “Silver Map”, she covered a world map with a silver pen. The second one is called “Door”, it is just pencil on paper.
found at vvork
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).
This is some recent work by Carsten Nikolai on display at the gallery EIGEN +ART in Berlin. On the left you can see one of his ‘Tired Light’ works, on the right ‘Clusters’. I want both.
This is Ivo_03, designed by Asymptote for Meta. Normally I don’t like glas tables, but this one is different …
It will be on display next week at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan (the annual international furniture fair). Wallpaper.com has a preview with a Google map so you know where to go next week.
‘Ring Forget Me Not’ by 