Extreme Exposures: Light Landscapes Take Hours to Shoot
Most light photographers focus on making a shape in the foreground in a matter of seconds, then setting it against a dark static backdrop - this artist often animates every inch of the ...
Author: Kurt Kohlstedt
WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedtMountaintop Tent: Airlifted Alpine Retreat Built at 8,000 Feet
Created as a tribute to a mountain guide killed in an tragic avalanche, this tent-shaped shelter of wood and steel was helicoptered in pieces and assembled at an elevation of 2531 meters in ...
Conjoined Chopsticks: 2 Redesigns to Keep Utensils Paired
Like socks, or any other paired object of everyday use, it seems the eternal curse of chopsticks to become separated and mismatched over time, at least until now. Japanese design firm ...
Decoding Streets: Secret Symbols of the Urban Underground
Somewhere between city signs and street graffiti lies a surprisingly rich and colorful language of secret messages, all hidden in plain sight on roads and sidewalks. This spray-painted slang we ...
3-Story Floating School in Nigeria Rides on Recycled Barrels
256 plastic barrels support this multistory marvel, which stands up and out even amid a sea of buoyant and stilted architecture in this fishing village alongside Lagos, Nigeria's largest ...
Smear Campaign: Guerrilla Artist Remixes Adverts with Acid
Mutating works of public advertising with corrosive acid, this cunning urban interventionist hijacks posters from bus stops and subway stations, then adds his own message into the ...
Animating Van Gogh: World’s First Fully-Painted Feature Film
It is a fantastic endeavor and nearly finished - a movie made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings, all presented in the style and told by the characters of the tale's protagonist: Vincent van ...
If You Build It: A True Story of Hands-On Design Education
What if high schools replaced shop classes with results-driven, full-scale architectural projects, where the goal was to collaborate and make something substantial for the entire community? If it ...
Deep Roots: Underground Farm in London Air-Raid Tunnels
100 feet beneath the surface, below even the level of the London Underground, there is another layer of World War Two shelters where something amazing is coming to life. Richard ...
Touch to Open: Kinetic Doors Unfold Like Life-Sized Origami
Made of rubber, metal, glass and wood, these dynamic flip panel doors tackle perhaps the world's original architectural invention in a series in a fresh, new and interactive ...
