Wow! What a cool mirror, made from 921 chrome-plated plastic balls, 819 motors controlled by a video camera and a computer. Watch the video to it in action. Fantastic. I want one… Check out the other mechanical mirrors by Daniel Rozin.

Self-made objects is a site with projects by Roger Ibars. Roger studied Interaction Design and displays a fantastic sort of homour in re-manufacturing everyday objects using joysticks as a control unit.

"He illustrated this research by publishing the book "Self-made objects", a collection of daily objects that experience their functions. These objects investigate a new area for interaction design where things take control of their functions and therefore use themselves. The user, left behind from this interaction, can only interact witn the objects with empathy."

Great website, beautifully designed.

Nissan Europe is working on an “office car”, a concept car designed for “scientists, geologists, archaeologists or adventurers”, ie for those who work outside. From autoblog

Bernard Tschumi mentioned somewhere that “An architecture can be consciously negative, it can be intentionally designed to be unpleasant, uncomfortable, to not work.”

When at college a rather irritating, non-design teacher was boring us to death about the design of his house. His sunken living room located in the centre of the house had been his pride, bragging about it for years. Until the year I entered the university when one of his students had the chance to built a doctor’s practice next to this teacher’s house. Obviously premeditated, as he designed the doctor’s waiting area facing the teacher’s living room, thus while waiting patients would look down into the teacher’s living room. Revenge is a dish best served cold…

Silly? Unprofessional? Childish? An architect’s revenge? The question really is who did more damage, the architect or the teacher’s words?

Here‘s a short test on colours. Quite funny.

Herman Miller has got an interesting article on the experience of colour.

The electronic white boards in offices are ugly, bulky, you break your legs over the stand, or the cabling. When used over a longer period of time the surface starts to look like the enclosed image we took at a client’s office recently.

White boards suck, thus we try to convince our clients to use glass panels instead. Glass panels are easy to clean, you can fill a whole wall with glass. Should printing be required, use a copy cam in combination.

The office of Visto, with a glass panel attached to the wall instead of a white board.

Vitra has just launched a new system called MedaMorph. Design by Alberto Meda. The system consists a base made of beams of various lengths that can be plug-into a star connector (not really shaped like a star but round). Thus the base can take on any shape and any desk top shapes can be supported. An amazingly simple and flexible system.