today and tomorrow

Watt’s new? is a lamp designed by Lotte van Laatum. She didn’t just design the lampshade but also the energy saving lamp.

‘p-e 07′ by Daniel Firman.

You can form any letter with ‘Das Patent’ by BANK.

‘NY-space’ by Simone Decker: wood, mirror, neon, one-way observation glass.

Lightmark, photography by Cenci Goepel und Jens Warnecke.

Loris Gréaud was the first French arstist under 30 to take over the Palais de Tokyo, a museum in Paris. His exhibition ‘Cellar Door‘ ran earlier this year and from what I can gather from the internet it looked really good. So here are some of his artworks.

All photos by Jungle Jim!

This is short clip from a live set by Etienne de Crécy, a French house producer, during the Transmusicales festival in Rennes, France, last year. 10 years ago he was quite popular with his Super Discount album, but apparently the French filtered house is still not dead … But the only reason to watch this clip is his stage show, or to be more precise the projections. He stands inside some sort of half transparent Rubik’s Cube on which some very nice animations are shown. Exyzt, an architectural collective form Paris, was responsible for this unique light show. (Their website doesn’t seem to be available now.)
So watch it now and don’t forget to turn down the sound!

Jeppe Hein is a Danish artist working in Copenhagen and Berlin. His work is just the style I like, so I picked out 3 installations by him.

‘Changing Neon Sculpture‘ is a good alternative to the many 3D LED cubes out there.

‘Self-Destructing Wall‘, the description sounds like I would to see a video of it.

A large wooden wall is built up in a space almost blocking the entry. Slowly, the metal structure within the wooden wall starts to move, pushing it against the wall of the space, breaking the wood and pushing the wall together like an accordion, thus entirely destroying the wall. In the beginning more than four metres long, the wall ends up with approximately 50 cm length after one day, leaving splintered wood on the ground of the space, giving the room a somewhat rough appearance that is kept until the end of the exhibition.

‘Mirror Neon Cube‘, I guess the title says it all.

You can find more of his work here.

Carlo Bernardini is an Italian artist who works with optical fibers and light. This is one of his bigger environmental light installations called ‘Permeable Space’.
found via INFOSTUKA

G19 is a lamp designed by Yar Rassadin. You can change the area of lighting by transforming the construction grid.
found at pan-dan