Waterdrop

source: gizmodo
Less spine-tinglingly freaky than the eerie-eyeballed Opto-Isolator animated sculpture, the upcoming Waterdrop sculpture by Héctor Serrano Studio for Roca may have a different side-effect: seasickness. It’s made of hundreds of moving vertical bars, each with a glowing tip, driven by motors to mimic in large scale the surface of a puddle after a water drop impact. Imagine: a darkened room with the repeating oscillations of a huge simulated sea surface. At the very least, it may make you wonder where the bathrooms are. On show at 100% Design London from 18 September. And if you can’t make it, there’s a video of the effect at the Waterdrop link.
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source: hectorserrano
Design office founded in London in 2000. Our projects combine innovation with the communication of familiar ideas in unusual and inventive way. His practice is divided into Product Design, under his own name and Spaces, under the commercial name of Borealis.
The client list includes companies such as Muji, FontanaArte, Roca, Moooi, Gandia Blasco, ICEX Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Droog Design, Metalarte, La Mediterránea, La Casa Encendida (Caja Madrid) and Valencia City Council among others. The office has received different awards such as the Peugeot Design Award and The Premio Nacional de Diseño No Aburridos, the second prize on the New Bus for London competition with Miñarro García and Javier Esteban and Designer of the Year 2009 by AD magazine. His products have been exhibited extensively in Museums such as V&A in London and Cooper-Hewit National Design Museum in New York and are part of different collections as the Central Museum of Amsterdam. Héctor studied Industrial Design in Valencia before moving to London to study a master’s degree in Product Design at The Royal College of Art.