Dumpster Divine: 12 Flashy Trashy Artistic Dumpsters
Dumpsters may be grungy, grotty, gross-smelling garbage holders but these ubiquitous urban trash bins positively bloom just by adding a little art. ...
Month: April 2015
Fantastic Cities: 48-Page Urban Coloring Book Made for Adults
Coloring books are no longer just for kids, as this one designed for adult colorists illustrates in beautiful black and white. Showing urban scenes both real and imagined, these fictional, actual ...
Scaffolding Skyscraper: Very Public Urban Artist-in-Residence
The scaffolding used by a street artist to complete large murals becomes a tiny, less-than-private home away from home in a literal sense with ’24/7,’ an installation at the Memorie Urbane ...
Luxury Retrofit: New 440-Square-Foot Condo Hidden in Old Garage
Boxed in on both sides, this once-homely little garage space is now a cozy high-end condo, its rusted white corrugated metal front replaced with a still-concealing wood facade serving to hide ...
Street Re-View: Hacking Google with Theatrical Performances
Mons, Belgium might just be the most interesting and artistic-looking city on the entirety of Google Street View, full of seemingly spontaneous dramatic scenes like chaotic clouds of floating ...
Tiny Apartment Tricks: 13 Ideas for Ultra-Compact Spaces
If you want to live in a tiny apartment without murdering your significant other or feeling like your home is a jail cell, you might want to employ a few of these clever small-space tricks, like ...
Fashionably Architectural: 5 Designers Debut 3D-Printed Shoes
Somewhere between architecture, art and fashion, this series of 3D-printed shoes by five famous designers for United Nude pushes the limits of new technologies to make fresh forms of fancy ...
Devil’s Slide: Deserted Bay Area WWII Bunker Hovers in Midair
Built on Devil's Peak (along a promontory known as Devil's Slide), this obsolete base end station was designed to spot, triangulate and radio in sightings of enemy ships approaching the San ...
Mesmerizing Motion Capture: Dance as Point Cloud Data
The graceful movements of a professional dancer are rendered as a cloud of flickering metallic dots using inexpensive Xbox Kinect sensors and 3D tools. Constantly shifting and changing even as ...
Wired Wood: 13 Handmade Versions of Electronic Gadgets
Anyone who longs for the days of simpler, longer-lasting gadgets will love these lo-fi wooden versions of modern tech, including a pixel display made of blocks, laser-cut wood records, an ...
