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Paper Crafty: 12 Cardboard Artists Think Outside the Box

Cardboard is a mundane material, so often cast off and thrown away or recycled – but these 12 artists have transformed it into objects that are anything but disposable.  From expressive little ...

Tilted In Your Favor: 13 (More!) Famous Leaning Towers

Just as there's more to food than pizza, there's more to leaning towers than Pisa. These 13 slanted spires show that staying on the straight & narrow isn't all it's cracked up to be; though if ...

Amazing Program Turns Sketches into Photo Montages

What if you could create a fairly convincing image montage in mere minutes, using an online tool that automatically does all the work for you? It sounds insane, but five students from Tsinghua ...

Fly on the Wall: Wacky Dead Insect Photography Scenes

Artistic inspiration can strike anywhere. For Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr, inspiration came from dead insects. As bizarre as it sounds, the photographer poses tiny dead flies onto paper, ...

Doing Graffiti Online: 8 Generator & Creator Applications

Graffiti art is a big part of the urban voice. It has become its own art form and developed its own subculture. But there are big risks involved in urban graffiti, and not all of us are willing ...

Fashion Photography: 16 Model & Advertising Photographers

Success for models, celebrities, advertising campaigns, and entertainment all depend upon being well-liked by the masses. Their rise to popularity can influence society and change cultural ...

Starting at the End: 12 New Cities Built From Scratch

A good city, like a good wine, needs time to develop. As any Civilization-playing geek knows, it takes decades or centuries to turn a cluster of villages into a living, breathing metropolis. It ...

Adaptive Reuse: 15 Creative House & Home Conversions

When old billboards, fire towers and grain silos outlive their old purposes, there’s no need to tear them down – especially since they can be transformed into surprisingly modern, livable ...

Oh Sit! The World’s 13 Most Uncomfortable Chair Designs

Comfy chairs, ergonomic chairs, posture correcting chairs, all well and good - but like everyone, designers sometimes like to bend the rules and be bad, oh so bad! These 13 uncomfortable chairs ...

Creepy Creatures: The Dark and Quirky Art of Scott Radke

One by one, each of the strange little faces with their red button noses and furrowed brows peek out from the strangest of bodies – black and white fish, striped swan, furless hounds and ...

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