Suspended Grass Figures Grow Green in Galleries
The figures seem to float on air, hanging in unnatural positions, their limbs dangling. Made of a compacted growing medium, these sculptures by Mathilde Roussel are planted with grass seeds and ...
Month: April 2012
Container Urbanism: Reclaimed Pop-Up Structures
When urban populations outgrow the pace of new construction, and suitable homes and offices spaces are difficult to find, what are property hunters to do? Perhaps more of them will start coming ...
Liquid Street Art: Tricycle Deploys Calligraphic Water Poetry
Nicholas Hanna is a Canadian artist who has poured new life into a traditional art form, turning a tricycle into a means of rapidly deploying Chinese characters in liquid form. Like disappearing ...
Bright Lights, Big City: 15 (More!) Light Art Installations
Light might just be the most captivating art medium of all, capturing our attention and transforming spaces in a way that paint can't. Some artists use it in combination with long-exposure ...
Walky Talky: 12 Concept Mobile Phone Telephone Booths
Classic static telephone booths are slowly fading from the urban landscape but talking on the phone has never been more popular. These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture ...
Typewriter Artist Creates Ink Prints One Line at a Time
For more than a century, typewriters were an essential office tool. The constant click-clack of keys could be heard echoing in the halls of every workplace, providing a constant soundtrack to the ...
Fashionably Fun: 41 Examples Of Insane Fingernail Art
Put away that boring nail polish! It's time to get creative. The wild world of fingernail art is a booming one, and it's much more intense than one would think. ...
Home Within Home: Architectural Fabric Art Installations
They hover, diaphanous, among their solid surroundings like ghosts of structures that have come and gone. These fabric installations by Korean artist Do Ho Suh transform the structures where ...
Maritime Museum Mimics Village Shapes & Ocean Waves
Simultaneously airy and solid, 'Kaap Skil' by Mecanoo Architects is a new maritime and beachcombers museum on a Dutch island accessible only by plane, boat or ferry. The building features a ...
Squint to See: Almost-Abstract Aerial Photography Series
Have you ever looked out of an airplane window and been completely mesmerized by the world below? From way up there in the sky, the world looks completely different and wonderfully abstract. ...
