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Month: December 2017

Has Bins : 15 More Street Artistic Trash Dumpsters

Down in the dumps? These dozen decorated dumpsters are sure to turn your mood from crappy to happy thanks to their distinctively un-trashy artistic makeovers. Becoming the pick of the ...

Graceful Degradation: Flashlight Designed to Operate Despite Missing Batteries

There's nothing quite so annoying as having a battery-powered device with one too few batteries, which in many cases would render it useless. In a common-sense twist on typical designs, MUJI's ...

Cellograffiti: Street Art Moves from Cities into the Woods on Plastic Wrap

Street art leaves the city and goes out into the woods in search of a new context without defacing nature thanks to a few massive rolls of clear engineering film. With Moscow-based artist Evgeny ...

Buttsy: Banksy-Style Street Artist Crafts Cigarette Butt-Based Assemblages

Working to raise awareness of litter, Buttsy builds sculptural collages out of found objects, with a strong emphasis on some of the most toxic offenders: cigarette butts. Like Banksy, he works ...

Miniature Calendar Photo Project: Tiny Scenes for Each Day of the Year

No object is too ordinary or random to end up being used as a stand-in for a full-scale building, boat, landscape or prop in art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka’s imaginative miniature ...

Modern Elder Care: 15 Architectural & Tech Solutions for Aging Communities

With millions of discerning Baby Boomers approaching elderhood, the need for a variety of personalized approaches to senior care is more pressing than ever. Let’s be real - none of us really ...

Cutting Loose: Crafty Paper Silhouettes Animate Architectural Landmarks

The built environment becomes the backdrop from all kinds of imaginative (if improbable) scenes when this London photographer adds a single layer to each of his images: a black piece of cut ...

Tikku: Three-Story Minimalist Micro Apartment Fits in a Single Parking Space

Proponents of our supposed driverless car-sharing future say the system could lead to a dramatic drop in the number of vehicles in our cities, so does that mean we’ll be able to fill our sudden ...

High-Design Pie: Complex Edible Works of Art You’d Actually Want to Eat

Instagram might have made it famous, but the fine art of crafting a delicious pie so intricate you’re almost loathe to cut into its crust is much older than the modern ‘food art’ trend. ...

All Fall Down: 2017’s Biggest Building Implosions

Our infrastructure may be falling apart but sometimes it falls faster AND according to plan thanks to building implosions – aka, controlled demolition. The Georgia Dome in ...

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