Would work well in an office this meditator, Instead of images I can imagine it with mirrors or black acoustic panels on the inside. Psychedelic!

Via Shedworking:

“This project was conceived to make it easier for all of us to satisfy our need for occasional moments of private contemplation. Enter the Meditator and surround yourself with the graphics which cover its walls, and something begins to happen to you almost at once.”It’s difficult to predict, but you may find the sensation akin to that mystical communion with nature that you experience when alone in a forest—or the sense of peace you feel in an empty cathedral. Or you may develop sudden insights as you study the picture-fragments of your world—and be swept by the conviction that you’re “getting it all together” at last.
“Far back into history. For the design of the Meditator, I’ve gone to the ancient Greeks and borrowed one of the polyhedrons they first visualized— the 12-sided dodecahedron, each face of which is a perfect pentagon. The Pythagoreans called it the “atomic building block of the Universe.”

How high can we go? Very high it seems. 

This is just one of many

This is a picture on the front page of the Financial Times of last year. I think it is absolutely fantastic, the carpet, the painting on the wall, the sofa’s…

The question for 2008, and here is my (easy) answer:

1. Japan has the highest pro-capita rate of architects, of the 1.2million registered architects world-wide Japan has over 300,000,

2. There are very few aesthetic regulations: anything goes,

3. In the chaos architects work hard to make their buildings stand-out,

4. Tokyo has some of the world’s most daring and cash-rich clients,

5. Japanese construction companies (not only the major ones) are the world’s most advanced,

6. Buildings have an average life-span of around 30 years,

7. The city has been destroyed many times over (and most likely will be again soon).

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.

Here’s a sneak preview of our latest design, the new Ernst & Young TAS office. The rest of the office should be ready by the end of the year. More pictures (with furniture) to follow…

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