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WebUrbanist | Archived Articles for January, 2010

Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape

Cellophane, the plastic stuff that keeps your sandwiches fresh, isn't a conventional art tool. But these two projects use it to temporarily spruce up cities.

Special Delivery: 54 Awesome Mailbox Designs

An offbeat custom mailbox can reflect your personality and let people know a little about you. These mailbox designs are weird, unique, and a little bit crazy.

38 Snowmen Nightmares: Calvin and Hobbes In Real Life

Here are some of the best snowmen nightmares, where fans of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip created real life, unhappily ever after tributes of the snowmen series.

Incredible Human Conditions: 10 Head-Turning Medical Oddities

It's remarkable that human growth and development goes so smoothly, despite the numerous opportunities for errors. Here are 10 cases where things went wrong.

Livable Luxury: 14 Creative Kitchen Designs

The best in modern kitchen design isn't just minimalist and visually appealing, but fits the most function into the smallest space possible.

Saving Time: Ten Trippy Time Capsules

Time capsules... messages from today to the world of tomorrow! Time capsules may not be time travel but they're the nearest thing to it we've got.

Mind-Bending Digital Photo Manipulation by Erik Johansson

Roads unfurl like fabric and human faces are frighteningly elastic in the digitally manipulated photographs of artist Erik Johansson.

Crowdsourcing the City: Amazing 3D User-Submitted Image Modeling

Crowdsourcing has been used with great success in many industries, but now it's moving into the public sector. Today, the public is helping shape cities.

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