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Pa++ern by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:16:54 +0000

Pa++ern is a new project by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi. They basically hooked up an embroidery machine with Twitter. A special language was developed to encode designs in the 140 character limit of Twitter. I guess the images below show you how it works.
You can go and see it from this Saturday on at the Beams Gallery in Tokyo.

On the left you can see the tweet: [ <<<^],+[vv],[^],+[>],[v], >>+n[^],[>],vvv[<],vvv+[n>], >>+[^],, >>+[v],, [>^<]>,>n+[>],[v],[.
And on the right the graphical translation.

Of course, some more complex designs are possible too.

Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal Fall 2009

pieter | today and tomorrow — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:17:56 +0000

Maison Martin Margiela killed it again with its Artisanal Fall 2009 collection. They must have a big laugh at everyone who take the whole fashion circus too seriously. Their message to the normal people is probably DIY, just go to your local hardware store, buy anything and wear it.

Paco Peregrín

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:31:03 +0000

Here are some very colorful beauty shots made by the Spanish photographer Paco Peregrín.

found at dropular

Etirement by Rémi Bouhaniche

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:07:21 +0000

Etirement is a light designed by Rémi Bouhaniche. I guess you tell from the image how it works … You can switch the light on by pulling the rod down, the more you pull it down the brighter the light gets.

found at dezeen

Nami

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:13:42 +0000

Nami is the Japanese word for wave, but it’s also the title of a photobook by Syoin Kajii.

found at dropular

SCR by tha ltd.

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:15:24 +0000

tha ltd. has just launched a new website for SCR, its creative label intended to serve as a platform for artworks and projects emerging from the recent digital/network media movements. They produce, develop, and sell various interactive art / software / motion-based projects. You might remember their Dropclock screensaver from last year.
Beside the relaunch, they also added 6 new pieces. 4 of them are made by Brendan Dawes, Delaware, Andreas Müller and Theodore Watson, the other 2, which I like best, by tha ltd. themselves.

MUG SHOOTER by tha ltd.

MUG SHOOTER is a screensaver that takes a unique mug shot of you and shares it to the world. A special camera that uses the automatic face recognition system morphs your facial expressions as you move parts of your face. Play around, have fun, and post a unique mug shot of yourself! (Please note, this screensaver displays the 50 most recent posts only, and old images will be automatically deleted. Your posts will be displayed for a limited time of around 1 ~ 10 days.)

CRASHCLOCK by tha ltd.

CRASHCLOCK is a screensaver that depicts the destruction of 4 truss structures falling vertically against the ground in slow motion.

This project is based on a project “CRASH” which was created for an exhibition called “bones” directed by Shunji Yamanaka at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT.

Brezhnev’s Eyebrows

pieter | today and tomorrow — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:03:21 +0000

Leonid Brezhnev’s eyebrows lived their own life.

found at graphics interchange format

Fuck

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:53:13 +0000

Fuck by Dave Franzese.

The Keystone Design Union

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:44:24 +0000

The Keystone Design Union is global creative network. Someone did this awesome illustration for their Solstice book. Do you know who?

UPDATE 08/07/2009 14:45
Alissia Melka-Teichroew let me know that Aerosyn-Lex Mestrovic is the illustrator of this piece.
Thank you Alissia!

Sneaker Jewelry By Sabrina Dehoff

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:40:22 +0000

Sabrina Dehoff is one of the Berlin creatives involved in the Nike IAM1 Journey, she designed these sneaker jewelry for the Air Max 1 and Air Maxim.

found at highsnobiety

Nike The IAM1 Journey

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:22:36 +0000

Nike is re-releasing the OG colorways of the the Air Max 1 sneaker, the ones still missing in my collection … But they also introduce a new version called the Air Maxim, based on the same silhouette but using the newly developed materials. The title of the European campaign is “The IAM1 Journey“. Nike will introduce you to 5 creative hotspots in Europe and Berlin is the first one. So which visual language did they chose? Exactly … a tilt-shift time lapse video. Once again very lush imagery.

Explosion

pieter | today and tomorrow — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:09:13 +0000

Explosion by Rafaël Rozendaal.

Smile

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:41:27 +0000

This photo was on the cover of the December issue of Dazed&Confused. It was part of the editorial shot by Daniel Sannwald, Valentina D’Ettorre of Happy Finish was responsible for the retouching.

And as a bonus, here is John Paul Thurlow’s version of it.

Nearly 100 fridges in a corner

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:14:04 +0000

Nearly 100 fridges in a corner by Thomas Rentmeister.

found at pan-dan

FedEx Large Box

pieter | today and tomorrow — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:07:59 +0000

Walead Beshty send a FedEx Large Box filled with a two-way mirror glass with safety glass laminate, by Standard Overnight fromLos Angeles to New York and subsequently with Fedex International First from New York to Berlin. When it arrived it looked like this.

found at DTYBYWL