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Month: September 2016

Unnatural Wonders: Magical Surrealist Artwork Worthy of Dalí & Escher

In the same magic-realist vein as artistic giants like Salvador Dalí, M.C. Escher and Renê Margritte, Rob Gonsalves crafts elaborate and interconnected scenes that shift subtly to form ...

True Colors: Sony Glitter-Bombs an Abandoned Romanian Casino

An abandoned Romanian casino long past its prime is infused with new life in the form of thousands of colorful glitter bombs in this striking ad by Sony for its range of BRAVIA 4K HDR ...

Small in Japan: Tokyo’s Unique Museum of Miniature Architectural Models

The first of its kind, this Japanese museum focuses exclusively on showcasing architectural models through rotating displays of miniatures, treating these crafted works as their own subset of ...

Urban Rigger: Floating Student Housing Made of Shipping Containers

This hexagonal floating student housing complex made of stacked reclaimed shipping containers is better than any dorm you could hope to live in. ‘Urban Rigger’ by Bjarke Ingels (BIG) creates ...

Design in Stitches: 45 Artistic Embroidered & Cross-Stitched Creations

This is definitely not your grandmother’s embroidery. It’s stitched into the helmets of soldiers, onto car doors and fences, producing cats that pop out of shirt pockets and portraits so ...

3Doodler Pro: New 3D-Printing Pen Works with Nylon, Wood & Copper

A new model of 3D sculpture-drawing tool from WobbleWorks operates using extrusion like its predecessor, but has expanded to allow users to print with new materials like wood, copper, bronze, ...

Brutalist Reality: Tower Blocks Can Be Dystopia For Real-Life Residents

Architecture enthusiasts might love the cold, harsh lines of Brutalist buildings, but for the people who actually live in the iconic London tower blocks and other modernist complexes for ...

Drone Design: 14 Autonomous Gadgets Taking Tech to New Heights

Their efficiency in the real world is yet to be established, but if these drone concepts and fully-realized creations are any indication, some of us could be looking at losing our jobs to robots ...

Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students

Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...

Park Like a Girl: Women Frustrated with Pink “Ladies” Parking Places

Sexism or security – why not both? Pretty pink women-only parking spaces show once again that best intentions can bring about unintentional consequences. A curious fact about designated ...

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