New and innovative products are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials? What would it take to get you to see a well-known building material in a new light? Some designers are doing just that now with forward-thinking furniture and ...
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7 Creative Approaches to Building Big with Paper: Adaptive (Re)Uses of an Everyday Material
New and innovative products are being conceived and produced all the time, but what about new ideas for already-familiar materials? What would it take to get you to see a well-known building material in a new light? Some designers are doing just that now with forward-thinking furniture and ...
7 (More) Unusually Geeky Approaches to Graffiti: From Remote-Control Robots to Digital Pixel Writing
What qualifies something as unusually geeky street graffiti? In some cases it is the content but in many instances it is the methods employed in its creation. Here are seven more geek graffiti projects that comment on and employ tools of the digital age to reinterpret traditional street art approaches or convey contemporary messages via new media.
7 Unusually Geeky Street Graffiti Projects: From Digitized Spray-Painting to Physical Hyperlinking
(Above [Citation Needed] Wikipedia Graffiti from Flickr via Snarfd)
What makes great graffiti into geek graffiti? It can be the approach, using nifty computer equipment to generate graffiti (for example). It can also be the content, as in the case of pixelated, projected or or even "physically hyperlinked" street art. The following examples span the spectrum but share elements only a geek can fully appreciate.
Brad Downey Brings Wonderland to Life: 7 Surreal Urban Street Art Installation Projects
"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change," exclaimed Alice. While his work may seem as amazing and fantastical as something straight out of Alice's Wonderland, Brad Downey's creative street artwork does have a rhyme and reason beneath the madness. Downey is a New York street artist with a twist: his bizarre contributions to the urban art of public spaces could, if only for a moment, be confused with traditional street furniture.
The Graffiti Report Card: Controversy and Critique of an Unusual Urban Street Art Project
The subject of graffiti often brings out strongly polarized reactions from urban dwellers, who either support it as art or criticize it as vandalism. Brandon Baunach of DesignCrack has developed a project based on an idea of Drew Heffron that has amazingly drawn both fire and criticism from both sides: Graffiti Report Card stickers for rating urban street graffiti.
