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Month: February 2018

Take it From a Tiny House: 12 Smart Small Space Tricks That Really Work

You don’t have to drastically shrink your whole life to fit into a 200-square-foot space in order to learn a space-saving trick or two from the tiny house movement. Builders and carpenters see ...

Dramatas Urbanae: Photographer’s 10-Year Study of a Single Public Bench

A lone Ukrainian park bench has become the unlikely star of a decade-long drama, much more by chance than by design, thanks to a photographer's unplanned project to document the lives of those ...

Temporary Street Art: Mobile Projector Paints Hong Kong with Modern Chinese Zodiac

Three years after decorating Paris with smartly-dressed animals, street artist Julien Nonnon is back with a project that temporarily adorns the streets of Hong Kong with his own modern version of ...

Whole Lotta Lush: 10 Verdant Offices That Feel Like They’re Outdoors

Not every office environment can be a multi-billion-dollar geodesic conservatory filled with tens of thousands of tropical plants, but there are lots of different ways to make boring workspaces ...

Meta-Footwear: Sneaker Protectors, So You Can Have Shoes for Your Shoes

These new Shoes for Shoes combine sandals, galoshes, and, well, shoes, to create a hybrid fashion phenomenon making its way from the runways of Men's Fashion Week in Paris to a store near you. ...

Toy Boxed: 10 Closed & Abandoned Toys R Us Stores

It took 60 years for Toys 'R' Us to rise to a Category Killer corporation... and fall victim to bankruptcy when economics told it to put the toys away. Toys 'R' Us can trace its roots back ...

Algorithmic Art: Dynamic Display ‘Paints’ Surreal Scenes & Melting Cityscapes

Abstracting views of the city, this huge installation uses computer algorithms to deform local everyday footage on a massive 14-by-23-foot display canvas. Ordinary wall art can get old, ...

The Empire Has Collapsed: Miniature Scenes Illustrate the Post-Apocalypse

Nature begins to take back New York City after all the humans are gone in this series of artfully photographed post-apocalypse miniatures. A collaboration between artists Lori Nix and Kathleen ...

Architecture with a Twist: Installation Artist Knots Columns & Flips Facades

In his latest work dubbed Birth, Death and Midlife Crisis, artist Alex Chinneck is back at it again, exploring the limits of seemingly solid structures (and observer imaginations). This latest ...

Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7M from Landlord Who Destroyed Their Work

Prior to 2013, a warehouse in Queens known as 5Pointz was a graffiti mecca packed with murals and other work by hundreds of artists, many of whom rented space inside the building. That is, until ...

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