E. Chromi

I’ve known about E. Chromi for about a year now and actually have been in contact with Alexandra Ginsberg, but what reminds me to post this here is visiting the London Design Museum, where Ecrhomi was displayed. Here is a video explaining the iGEM project. Really interesting and forward thinking about synbio and biotech. After which made a short visit to Royal Collage of Art where I met Anthony Dunne and some second year students in Design Interactions, where Ginsberg herself had studied. I really enjoyed the work that they do, but so far I am most interested in looking at technology as a medium and the applications and ethics of new technologies. 

E. chromi from Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on Vimeo.

Enrico Dini’s 3-D Printers Sculpture

Enrico Dini’s prototype machine can print in solid rock! His giant printer is the first of its kind that can print whole buildings. It uses sand but someday it’ll use moon dust? The machine is called D-shape, it sprays a thin layer of sand with a magnesium based glue from hundreds of nozzles, the glue binds the sand in to solid rock- building up layer after layer in to a sculpture or furniture or really anything you want. He claims that the d-shape process is four times faster than conventional building, costs 1/3 as using portland cememnt and createles little waste. On top of all that it makes creating curvy structures simple!

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Japan Media Arts Festival

David Bowen’s Growth Modeling Device scooped up the grand prize in the Art Divistion category. The system attempts to replicate the daily growth of an onion plant.While lasers scan the onion from one of three angles, a fuse deposition modeler creates a plastic model based on the information collected. The device repeats this process every twenty-four hours scanning from a different angle. After a new model is produced the system advances a conveyor approx. 17 inches so the cycle can repeat. The result is a series of white plastic models illustrating a simple organic phenomenon from different angles.

Lawrence Malstaf‘s Nemo Observatorium

Common Flowers, by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel (of the Biopresencefame), reverts the blue “Moondust” carnation -the first commercially available and purely aesthetic GM product- back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures.

Photo on the homepage: Flood Helmet Gallery from the series

Objects for Our Sick Planet, by ONG Kian-Peng.

Text by Regine of WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART

All pictures from the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Beautiful Moss Table

The Moss tables designed by Ayodhya has been shown at the IFFS – international furniture fair in singapore 2010.

Patents: a diagram.

Book Stairs

Tibor Kalman

I really like his design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet Toilet Designs…

      

Umbrella

+ SENZ Umbrellas, Really Good Umbrellas for Really Bad Weather @ Core77, “The aerodynamic SENZ Original is the first umbrella that will never go inside-out: It easily slices its way through all winds, from an afternoon breeze to strong autumn gusts.” 

Cardboard Chair

A really useful idea:

DOSH!

wow! cool! i want a dosh wallet too!

they are waterproof.
here is the product features and description:

The award winning Dosh wallet is designed and manufactured in Sydney Australia. The unique blend of flexible and semi-flexible polymers created a wallet that is durable, stylish, and packed with clever features for modern lifestyles. The patented design consists of purpose designed areas for storage of credit cards, notes, as well as a unique integrated compartment for items including sim cards, keys, condoms and security cards. All of these features are packaged in a funky form that is moulded in a range of vivid contemporary colours. Wallet overall dimensions are 120mm x 98 mm x 13.5 mm.

COOL TEA POT

STEFAN LIE’s sweet teapot looks so harmonic and balanced! i think it looks so cool, i would not have thought of a tea pot like this.also , you can see the same style in his other works:

PUMA GLOW RIDER

PUMA GLOW:Collapsable AND glows? wow! sweet.The night glow effect paint used on the steel frame of the bike collects the sunrays during the day, and gives this light off when darkness has fallen, in the form of a beautiful glow, lasting for several hours.  

Measure!

NYC-based product development studio Pollen Design has teamed up with Swiss kitchenware manufacturer Dalla Piazza to create NuScup, a first-of-its-kind, innovative adjustable measuring scoop with a unique co-molded seal that facilitates the measurement of both dry and liquid ingredients. Co-molding is a high-end precision process where two parts are molded together in such a way that a bond is created between them. This bonding gives the softer part more structure as it is bonded into the stiffer part. NuScup’s simple snap-apart construction makes cleaning a breeze, and also has an integrated magnet for convenient placement and easy access

non drip bottles