atelier van lieshout‘s ‘almost perfect’ is a chair that was drawn on a napkin and sent to china without further information. most of the detail was achieved by the chinese manufacturer, lending a sense of imperfection and the mystique of a knock-off to the finished product. on the opposite end is the incessant attention to […]
Category Archives: soft/glowing
almost made in china
Also posted in blogogracy, fabrication, futurecraft, open objects, product design
Comments closed
future fashion
anyone considering submitting to this year’s seamless fashion show might want to watch this compilation of projects from last summer’s siggraph unravel show of future fashions. this is my latest edit of all the projects i was able to grab as well as interviews with a number of designers.
Also posted in futurecraft, materials, product design
Comments closed
art must burn
long before burning man and lithium battery flareups, art has been destroyed by fire – in 1960 swiss father of kinetic sculpture jean tinguely built a self-destructing sculpture in the courtyard of new york’s museum of modern art: “The piano began playing. Jean had reversed the belt for his big meta-matic painting machine which was […]
Also posted in architecture, possessed products
Comments closed
user-generated art
rudolf stingel makes installations out by covering the walls of a gallery with panels of celotex tuff-R, an insulated foil-covered foam that invited visitors to scratch, gouge, rip and insert objects like a giant graffiti wall. it’s a very moving experience because there is a chaotic overlay of multi-scaled art unique and predictable. these installations […]
Also posted in art, blogogracy, customization, guerilla, materials, open objects
Comments closed
light prophet
if art can predict culture, then design foreshadows technology – the ingo maurer retrospective at the cooper-hewitt is an astonishing exhibit. time and time again the genius better know for winged bulbs impresses with his use of technology for design. he was among the first to use low-voltage halogens hung from uninsulated cables suspended wall-to-wall […]
Also posted in futurecraft, product design
Comments closed
light-bombs
no matter what anyone may think LEDs do not make something a bomb and bombs usually don’t have little lights on them anyways
Posted in soft/glowing
Comments closed
cuddlebot
i shot this video of dan stiehl presenting his ‘huggable’ robotic companion teddy bear at the aarp conference in boston two weeks ago. this project is another attempt at making companion robots that elicit positive emotional response, what makes this one unique is its execution. the bear looks and sounds like a real creature, even […]
Also posted in evil robots, fabrication, livingbreathing, surveillance
Comments closed
shake a wrist
master cyber-seamtress leah buechley showed her ‘bracelets‘ at the siggraph 2007 unravel fashion show. amazingly she can make circuits completely soft, such as this supple LED-studded bracelet with an accelerometer that propagates lights beams when shaken. from the catalog: Woven bracelets—created on traditional bead looms out of beads, conductive thread and surface mount LEDs—function as […]
Also posted in fabrication, futurecraft, product design, visualization
Comments closed