It’s A Wrap! 23 Compelling Mobile Bus Ads
Cash-strapped municipalities are doing anything and everything they can to lighten the load on their budgets. This means monetizing everything possible, including public transportation. Bus ads ...
Month: March 2012
Tying Us Together: Portraits on Hanging Elastic String
Hundreds of printed elastic strings come together to create strange and startlingly realistic portraits of human faces and limbs in this series by Hong Sung Chul. The South Korean artist creates ...
Paper Architecture: Intricate 3D Sculptures by Ingrid Siliakus
From flat sheets of paper, entire cities emerge, rich in unexpected details like balconies, tiny windows and even little people. Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus uses an initial 90-degree fold to ...
Right Hear, Right Now: 8 Terrific Techy Devices for the Deaf
Technology to improve the lives of handicapped people has brought us all kinds of incredible objects. From bionic body parts to inventive gadgets for the blind, inventors have been hard at work ...
Robots of Brixton: A Short Dystopian Film by Factory Fifteen
Humans have created a vast population of robotic workers to take on the tasks that they no longer want to carry out themselves, resulting in a disenchanted robot underclass that that takes over ...
Manifest Destiny! Parasite Cabin Clings to San Francisco Wall
Jarringly out of place, a tiny, rustic cabin clings to the wall of an urban high-rise in the unlikely location of San Francisco, California. The cabin, which is fitted with a rocking chair and ...
Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions
City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...
Flame Fame: 12 Red Hot Designer Fire Stations
When it comes to fire stations, simplicity and usability are foremost but that doesn't mean form has to take a back seat to function. These 12 hot designer fire stations are hook & ladder ...
If Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Were a Tree House
Fallingwater, the legendary architectural masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright, famously includes elements of its natural surroundings. Specifically, the house integrates the waterfall on top of ...
Yarn Bombs! 51 Victims of Knitted Graffiti
Yarn bombing is graffiti that grandmothers approve of! They consist of quickly knitted additions to street objects and sculptures. Why? Because it's fun! (Telephone Box via ...
